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41) The infinite sea
Author
Series
5th wave volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When a concert cellist plays in the square for his neighbors in a war-besieged city, his priceless instrument is destroyed by a mortar shell, but he finds the courage to return the next day to perform with a harmonica.
Author
Series
A Perry family novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, a country her father's army has occupied, and once she arrives and is reunited with her fiance, she discovers that her notions about politics, propriety, the military, and even her intended have changed.
45) Combat
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
765 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
47) The returning
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the six-year war between the Uplanders and Downlanders is over and Cam returns home to his village, questions dog him, from how he lost an arm to why he was the only one of his fellow soldiers to survive, such that he must leave until his own suspicions are resolved.
49) Warriors
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
736 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Planet thieves volume 1
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a routine voyage aboard an Academy spaceship, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and his fellow cadets are attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years.
52) The upstairs cat
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The fights between a mean, old cat and a lean, young cat always end in a draw and result in a waste of energy which proves the futility of war.
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
55) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
56) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
57) The pushcart war
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the world.
59) Warrior princess
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a deadly attack on her home, fifteen-year-old Princess Branwen meets a mystical woman in white who prophesies that Branwen will save her homeland from falling to the Saxons.
Author
Series
Girl at midnight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl, who's adopted and raised by a race of creatures with feathers for hair and magic in their veins, becomes involved in an ancient war and a centuries-old love, discovering startling truths about the world she lives in"--
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