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War stories
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Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force pilot…
stationed nearby. When Val rescues a Border Collie named Peter Woodhouse, who is being mistreated by his owner, she realizes the dog would actually be safer with Mike. And so Peter Woodhouse finds a new home on the air force base, and Val finds herself falling in love. Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, a canine mascot on the base who boldly accompanies the officers on their missions, and Val becomes Mike's fiancée. But then a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all, and Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes with great risk but carries with it the richest of rewards. 2018.
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General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.
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Historical fiction, Historical romance, War stories
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Victorian romance set in England in 1854. Treated as a poor relation rather than as an adopted daughter, Tabbie accidentally…
finds out about her true parents when she meets a wounded soldier while a nurse in the Crimean war. 1975, c1973.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
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A small vault of documents is hidden from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The location of…
the vault is kept secret for thirty years, until a power struggle forces a search for it. Strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1976.
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War stories
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France, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre treasures the portrait her husband painted of her before going off to war. So does the…
German commander who takes over Sophie’s hotel. Ninety years later the painting hangs in the home of London widow Liv Halston - and Sophie’s descendants want it back. 2012.
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War stories
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Four women attempt to smuggle a fortune in jewels out of the Warsaw ghetto to Switzerland. Their eventual goal is…
to aid Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This saga spans 40 years. 1986.
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War stories
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A tale of war and courage, set in World War II Malta, and the pivotal role played in the islands'…
defence by the small motor gunboats known as "The Glory Boys". Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2006.
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Serious and literary fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
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In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Romance, War stories
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Based on the savage struggle in east Africa during World War I, and the real-life renegade German army commander Paul…
von Lettow. Stevenson's novel traces the circumstances that combined to create an explosive situation in the African continent. c1980.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
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The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.
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War stories
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In the final months of World War II in Europe Private Will Hope, an eighteen-year-old draftee, is rushed into battle…
as a replacement. Beginning in a gun crew, he is later absorbed into a mine platoon that doubles as a rifle platoon. From France to Austria, Hope learns how to be a combat soldier and, more importantly, how to be a survivor. Realistic battle scenes. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.
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Humourous fiction, Short stories, War stories
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A funny love-hate view of life in a Highland Regiment at the end of World War II, narrated by a lieutenant with a genius for stumbling into trouble. 1986, c1970.
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Canadian fiction, Family stories, Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Sports fiction, War stories
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In 2003, a mild-mannered historian named Moses Lapinsky begins to write a biography of his father, a famous Jewish-Canadian boxer…
named Sonny. His research takes him from the 1930's to the 1950's, as he describes the fortunes of the Lapinsky family. In particular, it was the events of August 1933, at the riot at Christie Pits Park, which changed the lives of all four Lapinsky brothers forever. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Romance, War stories
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In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.
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War stories
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An Alabama family, headed by slaveowner and cotton farmer Jimmie Vaiden, finds their southern way of life profoundly affected by…
the Civil War and its aftermath. Strong language. Prequel to "The store" . 1931.
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Romance, Historical romance
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French Revolution. British spy William Doyle, disguised as a book salesman, meets French aristocrat Marguerite de Fleurignac. Believing she knows…
about a list of men targeted for murder, William offers to escort her to Paris - not realizing Marguerite's dangerous secret. Some descriptions of violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2010. (Spymaster series)
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Romance, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Two sisters, Thea and Dulcie, each find new expression in their lives with the coming of World War II and…
the social change that it brings. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1980.
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Fantasy, General fiction, War stories
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Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through…
her sister-like relationship with Io, and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.
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Mysteries and crime stories, War stories
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In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more…
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? 2004.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Gerald Woodlore wakes one morning to find that he has reached the limits of what he can control. His company…
is in trouble, his wife Vicki is bending under the image of perfect happiness she constructs, and his son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the military's civilian support staff in Afghanistan, has returned in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.