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21) Cross down
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt,brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
22) The age of Zeus
Author
Series
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Olympians appeared a decade ago, living incarnations of the Ancient Greek gods on a mission to bring permanent order and stability to the world. Resistance has proved futile, and now humankind is under the jackboot of divine oppression. Then former London police officer Sam Akehurst receives an invitation too tempting to turn down, the chance to join a small band of geurilla rebels armed with high-tech weapons and battlesuits. Calling themselves...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A former captain in the Army of Karse, Alberich must take a perilous stand when his long-hidden psychic talents are revealed, and he is rescued from certain death and chosen to serve the queen of Valdemar, Karse's archenemy.
24) The Spartans: the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient Greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse
Author
Language
English
Description
This book traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the influence the Spartans had on their world and even on ours. Paul Cartledge brings to life figures like legendary founding father Lycurgus and King Leonidas, who embodied the heroism so closely identified with this culture, and he shows how Spartan women enjoyed an unusually dominant and powerful role in this hyper-masculine society. --From publisher's description
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Logan West, a former Marine officer, impulsively answers a dead man's ringing phone, he triggers a global race against the clock to track down an unknown organization searching for an Iraqi artifact that is central to a planned attack in the Middle East--one that will draw the United States into a major conflict with Iran. -- from jacket flap.
Author
Series
Iron elves volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Forcibly summoned out of exile to resurrect the Iron Elves regiment he once had led, disgraced elf officer Konowa Swift Dragon is ordered to fight an elf witch of immense dark power, a mission that is compromised by doubts about the elves' loyalty to their empire.
Konowa Swift Dragon, former commander of the Empire's elite Iron Elves, is looked upon as anything but ordinary. He's murdered a Viceroy, been court-martialed, seen his beloved regiment...
28) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
29) Forest mage
Author
Series
Soldier son trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Slowly recovering from a plague that has decimated his Academy fellows, soldier Nevare Burvelle anticipates his brother's impending nuptials, but is forced to enter the realm of Speck magic when his family is infected by the plague.
Language
English
Description
In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam,...
31) Lady Friday
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young Arthur Penhaligon must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity that he must seize.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the age of storm and murder. After the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrio. Now, power-hungry jarls carve out petty kingdoms, and monsters stalk the shadow-haunted woods and mountains. A world where the bones of the dead gods still hold great power, promising fame and fortune for those brave - or desperate - enough to seek them out. As whispers of war echo over the plains...
34) The Warriors
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
20140603
Language
English
Description
Tom Young has earned both popular and critical acclaim for his scintillating suspense fiction. In The Warriors, Lt. Col. Michael Parson couldn't be happier about his new assignment on a Kyrgyzstan air base. But after taking what he expected to be an easy job, a drug-laden C-27 crashes on the runway-drawing Parson into a deadly game of intrigue that could end in an international conflagration.
36) Tool of war
Author
Series
Ship Breaker volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When the King asks a soldier to solve a mystery, he has no idea of the mysteries that will be discovered. Follow along and see for yourself, as the princesses dance the night away."--
38) Ashes of victory
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise, including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized...
39) The King's Name
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Fantasy
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As civil war threatens to destroy the hard-won peace of Tir Tanagiri, warrior Sulien ap Gwien must take up arms once again in a conflict that tears her country, family, and friendships apart.Genre: Fantasy