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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
No Holding Back: A Swoon Novel (Dodge Cove Trilogy #2)
By Kate Evangelista. 2016
A romantic European vacation is the perfect excuse to let go in No Holding Back, the highly anticipated sequel to…
No Love Allowed by Kate Evangelista. Everyone knows that Nathan is in love with his best friend, Preston...Everyone except Preston. Nathan has always accepted that Preston was too focused on his swim training to worry about love. But Preston is heading off to train for the Olympics soon, so if Nathan wants his chance at love, he has to speak up now. But saying "I love you" is surprisingly difficult, even for someone as confident as Nathan. Maybe a whirlwind vacation in Europe could help? But... what if it doesn't work out and he loses the best friend he's ever had?Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows (Dear America)
By Barry Denenberg. 2001
Cicatrices de charol
By Berta Pichel. 2018
Una novela de amor y superación ambientada en los albores de la guerra civil. Nía es una joven de dieciocho…
años que sueña con ser actriz mientras su vida transcurre en la comarca del Bierzo bajo la sombra protectora de su madre, una mujer muy conservadora. Cuando la protagonista conoce a Valeriano, un activista de la UGT, se lanza a un romance lleno de pasión que la obligará a hacer frente a los prejuicios de una sociedad convulsa y abocada a la guerra. Una historia de crecimiento, de superación, de ideales y amores de juventud, en la que Nía tendrá que vencer un obstáculo tras otro hasta lograr convertirse en la mujer que desea ser.How We Roll
By Natasha Friend. 2018
Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition…
called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident—caused by his brother—he loses both of his legs. Quinn and Jake meet and find the confidence to believe in themselves again, and maybe even love.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.Street Notes
By Lisa Mcmanus. 2017
All 15-year-old Nick Zinsky wanted was a guitar of his own and a necklace for his mom, and he wanted…
to buy both on his own, without anyone’s help.Nick’s mom want him to focus on school and not get a job. But Nick is anxious to save up, so he spends the summer and weekends busking downtown with a guitar loaned from school – a secret he has to keep from his mom, his music teacher, his friends, and especially from the school bully, Beau. But when a music competition is announced where the prizes would solve all Nick’s problems, Nick lacks the confidence to enter. Can he find the courage to enter and will it make his problems disappear? Author note: ‘Street Notes’ is a story about bullying, a teens’ struggle for independence, and about learning that sometimes it’s okay to ask for help. This book was previously published with the title “Newbie Nick” in June 2014.Someone Else's Summer
By Rachel Bateman. 2017
Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of…
her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost and her family is torn apart. That is, until she finds Storm's summer bucket list and decides to honor her sister by having the best summer ever--which includes taking an epic road trip to the coast from her sleepy Iowa town. Setting out to do everything on Storm's list along with her sisters best friend Cameron--the boy next door--who knew that Storm's dream summer would eventually lead to Anna's own self-discovery?Lost in the War
By Nancy Antle. 1998
The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan
By Gia Cribbs. 2018
No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her…
friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection program or, as it’s officially called, the Witness Security Program? Yeah, the WITSEC folks definitely don’t want me talking to you.But I don’t care. I have to tell someone.If I don’t, you’ll never know how completely wrong things can go. How a single decision can change everything. How, when it really comes down to it, you can’t trust anyone. Not even yourself. You have to understand, so it won’t happen to you next. Because you never know when the person sitting next to you isn’t who they claim to be…and because there are worse things than disappearing.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.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 . . .