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1) The deserter
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When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky. Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commander leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted a year later in Caracas, Venezuela,...
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Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. This is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people--a...
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this...
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2023.
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"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and...
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2017
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking...
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
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When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.
8) Rope Burn
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WELCOME TO THE CHAIN GANG . . .
When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it’s just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time—on a brutal prison chain gang . . .
ALL TROUBLEMAKERS WILL BE SHOT.
Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted...
9) Saga
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
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2012
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"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- p. [4] of cover.
10) Fury: a novel
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2024
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"In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and mistakes the cactus for the person he loves. Over the echoes of the stories of these...
11) Eastbound
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2023.
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"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"--
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[2007]
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In the first memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. A year later, he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation....
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 17
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[2003]
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Homer and Mary Kelly become involved in the mystery of why Mary's great-great grandfather Seth Morgan, a Harvard graduate who served in the Civil War, had become persona non grata on the family tree.
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"Like many a veteran of the Civil War, Cap McKenna went west to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne. Out riding one day, McKenna comes across an abandoned infant, whom he takes in and cares for until the baby's...
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Those Jensen boys volume 5
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2020.
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When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard timeón a brutal prison chain gang. Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....
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[2021]
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During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, resenting the white man's invasion of their sacred hunting grounds, ruthlessly attacked wagon trains and settlements. Knowing the dangers, Lieutenant Zane Travis was surprised to find Mary Gunnison - whom he had loved and lost to a fellow officer - in Cheyenne. Against regulations she joined Travis' mail detail...
19) Saga: Volume 3
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 3
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2014.
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Traveling to a cosmic lighthouse on planet Quietus in order to find their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana are chased by a host of pursuers.
20) Cold Mountain
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2003
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In the waning days of the American Civil War, Inman, a wounded Conferate soldier leaves the hospital where he is recuperating and embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Ada, the woman he left behind. Deserters like Inman are considered traitors and are ordered to be killed by the home-guards, ruthless vigilantes who also prey upon those who did not fight, torturing and killing families of Confederate...