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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 9
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Fake news and genuine terror collide in the most shocking, most impactful adventure yet. Though surrounded by death and destruction, young Hazel's story has only just begun. -- Back cover.
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Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 11
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. A multiple award winning, critically...
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The son of a wealthy plantation owner, Confederate Lieutenant James Dunn is young, brash, and a fierce fighter. But during a guerilla mission in the north Georgia mountains, he learns first-hand how horrific and destructive the war really is. Having lost his taste for bloodshed after a brutal act on a night-cloaked bridge, he goes AWOL ... and he isn't alone. Crosseye Reeves, a former sharecropper on the Dunn plantation, was there to witness James'...
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by the war in Vietnam, an Army private lays down his rifle and begins to walk from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Paris.
"In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato...
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