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Kid Pirates: Their Battles, Shipwrecks, & Narrow Escapes (Ten True Tales)
By Allan Zullo. 2007
Some volunteered. Others were forced to serve. But each of these young people sailed with the world's most feared pirates…
-- from the notorious Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to Sir Henry Morgan and others. Some of these kids fought side-by-side with the pirates, and others tried to escape. You will never forget their incredible true stories.The Machine Gunners
By Robert Westall. 1975
With Nazi planes raining bombs on England night after night, every boy in Garmouth has a collection of shrapnel, bullet…
casings, and other war souvenirs. But nothing comes close to the working machine gun Chas McGill pulls out of a downed bomber. Soon Chas realizes that he's found more than just a souvenir. While police search frantically for the missing gun, Chas and his friends build a secret fortress to fight the Germans themselves.SOMETHING HAPPENED
By Joseph Heller. 1974
Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the…
mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary (My America)
By Mary Pope Osborne. 2000
Blade of Fire (The Icemark Chronicles, Book #2)
By Stuart Hill. 2007
It's been 20 years since Queen Thirrin and her allies defended the Icemark against a brutal invasion, but now General…
Bellorum is back. Also, Thirrin and Oskans cold-hearted daughter Medea may be the downfall of the kingdom. Sequel to Cry of the Icemark.Stop at a Winner
By R. F. Delderfield. 1961
The Treasure of Malaga Cove
By John Gillgren. 2015
Join Sir Francis Drake on his flag ship the Golden Hind in 1577 as he searches for a shorter route…
to Asia. On his dangerous journey around the tip of South America and up the west coast of the Americas, his crew faces violent storms at sea and battles with Spanish and Portuguese Men-O-War. Finally, Drake must deal with a mutiny on his own flag ship. Four hundred years later, Carmine Cali is learning to dive off the coast of southern California when his partner Nelson Bartlett swears he sees a skull hidden in the grasses off Malaga Cove. Another dive that day reveals nothing. Carmine spends the next 39 years trying to confirm that the skulls exists. Follow Carmine, his wife Elaine, and their children Snail, Carmen and Caroline in their diving adventures and search for the enigmatic skull.Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows (Dear America)
By Barry Denenberg. 2001
The Sound
By Sarah Drummond. 2016
The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law…
in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and stealing women and children from indigenous communities as they went. It follows the journey of Wiremu Heke of Aramoana, who begins his journey on the quest to avenge the destruction of his village, but ends it older, wiser, and looking at the world in an entirely different way.Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories
By Shelby Foote. 1993
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck (Dear America)
By Mary Pope Osborne. 2000
Thirteen-year-old Madeline Beck's diaries, recorded through 1941 and 1942, reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II…
while her father is away in the Navy. B&W photos and illustrations.Hawkfall
By George Mackay Brown. 2004
This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and…
reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.Lost in the War
By Nancy Antle. 1998
Double Trouble: Zero Hour Trilogy part two
By Rob Lofthouse. 2016
Double Trouble is the sensational, breathless sequel to Deep Trouble and tells the story of one of the most famous…
operations of the Second World War: 50,000 airborne troops, nine days of fierce fighting, one bridge too far.Iron Tide Rising (The Map to Everywhere #4)
By Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis. 2018
Magical worlds and incredible creatures fill the pages of this epic, action-packed finale of the Map to Everywhere series, from…
John Parke Davis and New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan!Intrepid travelers Fin and Marrill have shared countless thrilling and treacherous adventures on the magical waters of the Pirate Stream. But neither could have expected that their final adventure would force them to team up with their oldest enemy: the evil wizard Serth! With the fate of the Stream and all their friends hanging in the balance, can they challenge the most frightening power they've ever come up against? Find out in this mind-blowing conclusion to the Map to Everywhere series!Fatal Light: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction Ser.)
By Richard Currey. 2009
A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced…
prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man's rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.Trouble at Zero Hour: Complete Zero Hour Trilogy
By Rob Lofthouse. 2016
Written by a retired British soldier, Trouble at Zero Hour is a breathless and vivid story, dramatizing three of the…
key Allied operations that turned the tide of the Second World War.6 June, 1944, somewhere over the Normandy coastline: Robbie Stokes sits in a glider, his Bren resting on the floor between his outstretched legs. The nose lowers and the glider descends rapidly: ten minutes of stomach-churning twists and turns until suddenly the call goes up to 'BRACE'. The belly makes contact with the ground and the first Allied troops tumble out into occupied Europe.For new recruit Robbie Stokes it is the beginning of ten months of brutal and relentless conflict that take him from D-Day, via Operation Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem Bridge, to the Rhine Crossing and the final push for victory. Three operations that change the course of the war and test Robbie Stokes and his band of brothers to their limits. If they fail, then the Allied invasion fails. They must succeed through their longest days.Trouble Ahead: The Battle For Crete
By Rob Lofthouse. 2017
Heraklion, May 1941. On the north coast of Crete, the British forces are redeploying troops, ahead of a German invasion…
of the island. A brutal defeat in Greece has forced them to withdraw from the mainland, weakened and dejected. For Captain Bentley Paine, of the Yorks & Lancs Regiment, the planned assault is a chance to finally prove himself in this war, not least to his infuriating assistant, Corporal Hallmark. But when the attack begins at dawn, no one can be prepared for the death and bloody fighting that will ensue. As German paratroopers fire at will, victory is decided in a matter of days. But both sides will face devastating losses, in a game-changing campaign, that will become one of the most intense and horrific battles of the Second World War.Bless 'Em All
By Allen Saddler. 2007
In the early years of the Second World War, respectable Maurice and raffish Bernard are two squabbling brothers who -…
with the help of sixteen-year-old Jimmy and Miss Tcherny, a pretty invoice clerk - run a wholesale bookselling business near St Paul's. Over the river, in a large house in south London, the residents are doing their best to get on with their lives as the Luftwaffe brings the war to the capital. Bert and Edie Penrose live in the basement; above them, lonely widow Mrs Bennet remembers the last war, her dead husband and her son in Australia. Meanwhile, Bunty, on the middle floor, married to a jealous man with a short fuse, turns tricks in the West End after he cycles off to work. A stunning blonde, she is totally deaf and dumb. Then there's her neighbour Betty, a faithful but naive young wife at the top of the house. When Maurice, Bernard, Bunty and Betty get together at the dubious Hostess Club in Soho, a sequence of events follows that no one could predict . . .The Long and Short
By Allen Saddler. 2008
The Long and the Short is the second in Allen Saddler's Forties trilogy and the sequel to his acclaimed Bless…
Em All. Four years on from Blitz London, as news of the Normandy landings filters through the country, Allen Saddler presents new characters struggling in wartime England alongside memorable figures from the first book. Where Saddler had lives criss-crossing each other in London's streets before, this time they span north and south and with his customary narrative drive and sparkling dialogue, he describes the subtle differences, as well as similarities, between friends and enemies who are meant to be fighting a common enemy abroad.Jimmy, the delivery boy from Bless Em All has become a nervy young soldier and is reunited with the enigmatic Rosa Tcherny, the Jewish nurse who finds herself tending German POWs; Harry 'Boy' Fortune is an officer/spiv hot on the trail of two tarts, revealing his softer side along the way; Major Le Surf is his boss, carving out a sweet life for himself in a northern backwater, only to be thrust into the riddle of a murdered German POW. All of these dramas and more converge as the country moves towards V.E. Day and a final release from endless sacrifice and strain.