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Fairmile novels volume 3
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"The Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England"--
"The "sweeping" (Parade) and "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and...
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Mistborn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 38
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Vin, the former street urchin and protege of Kelsier, is now heir to the Mistborn and the new world Kelsier created. When a mad race of giants attempt to take the former capital, Luthadel, Vin and her rebel allies must save the city and its hidden cache of allomancy metals from siege.
6) Texarkana
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"JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. RUSTLERS' PARADISE. At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice, and doesn't expect any trouble along the way. Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding Perley Gates. This time, it's...
7) Ironclad
Pub. Date
[2011]
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A ragtag group of Knights Templar hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the king to defend the freedom of their country.
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Ballantyne novels volume 5
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The banks of the Nile are torn by an unprecedented war during which a charismatic new religious leader traps hundreds of people in the capital city of Khartoum.
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Civil War battle series volume 5
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Vicksburg is the fifth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. Cory Brannon must abandon the supply train to undertake a vital mission for the Confederate commander in charge of Vicksburg's defenses.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In 1870 Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War, a group of unforgettable characters, including a half-Haitian woman with incredible gifts and an American army surgeon, as they live through, and are buffeted by, momentous historical events that will change them forever"--
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2000.
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Richard Sharpe is caught between the British army and a renegade Englishman holed up in a fortress with his own private soldiers, in a novel about the British troops and their struggle to take the Indian fortress of Mahattra in 1803.
14) Siege
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Traces the origins and development of medieval siegecraft, and describes siege engines, weapons, armor, preparations by the defenders, defenses, surrender, and how the development of artillery and firearms ended the tactic.
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[2013]
Description
After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA Numbers Station where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death...
16) Constantinople
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Pub. Date
c2003
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Describes the background to and the events of the 1453 siege of the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, by Turkish Muslims.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA Numbers Station where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death...
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Pub. Date
2002
Description
Meticulously researched and historically accurate, this depiction of the tragic story from the Indian Mutiny resonates in the struggles against religious fanaticism of our own time. Intense and inspiring, it describes the heroism of a handful of British soldiers and civilians who confronted swarms of vengeful sepoys and all but hopeless odds through the eyes of the characters Sheridan and his wife Emmy.
19) Sharpe's tiger
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
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The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"The final 13 hours at the Alamo began around 5 o'clock on the afternoon of March 5, 1836. Colonel William Barrett Travis drew a line in the dirt and asked all those who would stay and fight to cross it. Destinies played out that night for four people. Susannah Dickinson, a woman of surprising gumption. Young James Taylor who came to the Alamo to free Texas from the tyrannical rule of General Santa Anna. "Moses" Rose who refused to cross Travis's...
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