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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 commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
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English
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After the war, Union veteran Bobby Hale sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. Stumbling around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets. 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 white man and a mixed-race woman -- can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.
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"Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway's craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway's own 1948 introduction to an illustrated...
4) Eastbound
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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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English
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Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. "Wanted" posters appear everywhere along the trail. The likenesses do not resemble the brothers, but their uniforms give them away. Enter...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 17
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English
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Gettysburg deserter or Civil War hero? Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly and his wife, Mary, solve the mystery of her great-great-grandfather in this “clever” novel (Booklist).
Homer and Mary Kelly have wandered through Harvard University’s Memorial Hall dozens of times, but never have they lingered over the long list of alumni who died for the Union during the Civil War. One afternoon, the setting sun casts its...
Homer and Mary Kelly have wandered through Harvard University’s Memorial Hall dozens of times, but never have they lingered over the long list of alumni who died for the Union during the Civil War. One afternoon, the setting sun casts its...
10) Lost soldiers
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
367 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Publisher
Clearfield Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 449 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants, but quite a number of runaway apprentices, both men and women, military deserters, with horse thieves, burglars, jail breakers, an occasional murderer, enemy spy, a pirate and other lowlife are represented"--Introduction.
13) Port of shadows
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
14) Deception
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Severn House
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English
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Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to 'Red Station', a remote outpost in the Balkans, ostensibly to avoid press scrutiny, but where in effect the security services send 'problem' agents they'd like to be rid of. But the outpost is thrust into the international spotlight when troops begin massing in the area; and, as the situation becomes increasingly dangerous, Tate discovers...
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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xx, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"A ... history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, [this book] offers a ... new perspective on the Second World War ... [delving] deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this ... portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history"--Dust jacket flap.
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Criterion collection volume 245
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages ; illustrations).
Language
Français
Description
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good in life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as both acts of revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.
18) Deserter
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
384 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world... This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito's earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror." -- back cover.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
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