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1) The traitor
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It's been a long journey for Alwyn Scribe. Born a bastard and raised an outlaw, he's now a knight and the most trusted advisor to Lady Evadine Courlain. Together they've won countless battles and helped to bring order to a fractured kingdom. Yet Evadine is not the woman Alwyn once knew. As puritanical fury increasingly replaces her benevolent faith, Alwyn begins to question what her true motives really are. As the kingdom braces itself for one final...
2) Wild poppies
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Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, his younger brother Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other...
3) Kindling
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After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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"After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life. But Kylar's best, and maybe only, friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom, and the king's twin sons, he needs...
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Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young Black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart.
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"Winter 1967. An arctic storm traps three soldiers at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland. When the rescue team finally reaches them, two of the soldiers have died in what seems to be an accidental fire and the third, Private Connor Murphy, is left severely burned--with no memory of the previous seven days. New York psychiatrist--and occasional CIA consultant--Jack Miller is tasked with uncovering Murphy's memories....
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In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
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"A spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward--loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters--and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era...
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A graphic novel that follows the heroic actions of the first all-black female battalion in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Describes how the women overcame sexism and racism to create a system to ensure millions of letters and packages got to soldiers fighting in Europe. Includes a glossary and sources of further information.
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In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.
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"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher,...
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"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash...
13) The eternal ones
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In her quest to confront the gods and save a crumbling empire, Deka must find the source of her divinity before her mortal body deteriorates, leading her and her friends to a new realm that unveils a heart-wrenching choice: become a god and lose her loved ones, or trigger the world's destruction.
14) The list
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Private Matty Giaconne loves making lists, they sharpen his mind so he can focus on disarming IEDs (improvised explosive devices), and they distract him from how much he misses his family back home. But when a routine IED search nearly ends in disaster, Matty considers reordering his most important list. But choices are not easy when all the options involve leaving loved ones behind. Written in graphic-novel format.
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"As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revolt, fighting alongside rebel forces against the Ottomans. He made a legendary 300-mile journey through blistering heat; he wore Arab dress; and he strongly identified with the people in his adopted lands. By 1918, he had a £20,000 price on his head. Despite readers' long fascination in his story, Lawrence --...
17) Go slow
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When she was just a kid, Rose Campbell's mom constantly told her to take things slow and now, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Rose takes the advice to heart, one misstep, and boom somebody dies. But lately, every day feels exactly the same: IEDs are found in the same locations and Rose's team finds the bombs, disarm them, and then they move on to the next one. But Rose knows better than to get impatient--because that is exactly what...
18) Libérame
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Juliette ha escapado hasta el Punto Omega. Es un lugar para gente como ella -para personas que tienen dones-, y también es el cuartel general de la resistencia rebelde. Por fin es libre de El Restablecimiento, libre de su plan para usarla como arma, y libre para amar a Adam. Pero Juliette nunca se librará de su tacto letal. O de Warner, que quiere a Juliette más de lo que ella jamás imaginó. Perseguida por su pasado y aterrada por su futuro,...
19) The mist
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West has nerves of steel, regularly risks his life to disarm IEDs, and puts up with his squad mates mean-spirited pranks without complaint. And when West finds an Afghan boy standing on a bombs pressure plate, he still manages to keep calm because if he doesn't, West will be forced to face the only thing he truly fears: the pink mist, the bloody result of a bomb taking someone's life. Written in graphic-novel...
20) Enciéndeme
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"Nada volverá a ser lo mismo. El destino del Punto Omega es desconocido. Todas las personas por las que Juliette se preocupa quizás estén muertas. La guerra quizás ha terminado incluso antes de empezar. Juliette es la única que se enfrenta al Restablecimiento. Sabe que, si ella sobrevive, el Restablecimiento debe acabar. Pero para derrocarlo y acabar con el hombre que estuvo a punto de matarla, Juliette necesitará la ayuda de una persona...