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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
A Firm Merger
By Stephanie Ganon. 2011
Working at a law firm has taught Emily Dawson a thing or two about mergers and acquisitions. This serves her…
well when the two men she's dating learn about each other. It's time for a compromise that will satisfy them all!For nearly a year, Emily Dawson has quietly dated two men, Nick Scott and William Drake--both smart, attractive and great in bed. Because they all work at the same law firm, her various needs are met at a moment's notice. During an out-of-town business trip, the men put their heads together and discover their girlfriend has two boyfriends. But when Nick and William confront Emily about her refusal to commit to a relationship, an unusual compromise is reached--one that satisfies them all. Content Notes: Partner sharing; gay sexBlade 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
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.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.In My Dark Dreams: A Novel
By J. F. Freedman. 2008
A public defender must defend the rarest of clients--someone she believes to be innocent Jessica Thompson is training for a…
marathon, running fifty miles a week not just to stay in shape, but to help her forget that she spends her days in service to some of California's worst criminals. As a public defender in Los Angeles, this is par for the course. But Roberto Salazar is an unusual client: a kind, mild-mannered man with a clean record who has been accused of trafficking stolen goods. Jessica is happy to get this churchgoing gardener acquitted, but she's shocked when he's accused of murder. Roberto is arrested in connection with three savage murders, each committed on the night of a full moon. Is he innocent? Or did Jessica let a madman go free?Dark Chapter
By Winnie M. Li. 2017
'An important and moving book' --Cathy Rentzenbrink'I have never found myself rooting for a heroine with more urgency' --Kate Rhodes'Deftly…
written, pacey and unflinching, I could not put it down. Winnie Li is a rare talent with an explosive and timely story. Do not miss it.' --Marti Leimbach, best-selling author of Dying Young and Daniel Isn't TalkingHighly Commended for the CWA Debut Dagger 2015Shortlisted for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize 2015Runner-up in the SI Leeds Literary PrizeVivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society.On a bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, their paths collide during a horrifying act of violence.In the aftermath, each is forced to confront the chain of events that led to the attack.Inspired by true events, this is a story of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives. *2018 Edgar Award Best First Novel NomineeLost 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.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.Offerings: A Novel
By Richard Smolev. 2012
Kate Brewster's quest to become the first woman to run a Wall Street institution is about to come to fruition.…
Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion.Kate's professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: her husband's company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business. Her integrity is challenged when she's accused of slowing down a deal to sell her husband's company to divert the sizeable sales commission to Drake, her new company. As a result, Kate uncovers an illegal trading scheme involving her partners, and their downfall triggers another firm's attempt at a hostile takeover of Drake.Against seemingly impossible odds, Kate is able to strike a balance between the demands of the deal she is running and the right of a patriarch's family to seek closure for wounds that date back generations.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.