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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
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Cowboys of Cold Creek volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Select
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Lieutenant Magdalena Cruz had come home, and though all she wanted was to be alone, infuriatingly handsome Dr. Jake Dalton wouldn't cooperate. She needed him to, because the walls around her heart were dangerously close to crumbling every time he came near.
3) White Jenna
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Books of Great Alta volume 2
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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Jenna was the White Queen, a child that prophecy, rumor, and myth had predicted would come. Jenna chose to become a warrior/hunter and she wasn't convinced that she was the White Queen, but took the title to further the cause.
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Meet the do-or-die warriors who'll do anything for justice
Introducing the Mission Medusa series
Years of intense training have prepared Tessa Wilkes to become a Medusa-part of an elite, women-only Special Forces team. But all the mental prep and physical training in the world can't prepare her fully to take on one of the world's most dangerous men. The ultimate operative, Tessa teams with trainer Beau Lambert to track her target, but even if she...
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Thorndike
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Only faith sustained Lindsey Mandel after theloss of her beloved twin brother. Now a freakaccident would test the U.S. Army corporal'smettle once again. Desperate to save herbrother's injured horse, Lindsey placed hertrust in handsome veterinarian Brian Cutter.
When Brian saw Lindsey pinned beneath thesteed, his only thought was to save her. Withhis own faith shaken by the death of his wife,he was amazed by this plucky female soldierwho gave her...
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Machineries of empire volume 2
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Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion."--Amazon.com.
9) Carly
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Women of Ivy Manor volume 4
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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"A young woman is wounded serving as part of Operation Desert Storm, and returns to the nursing care of three generations of women who have faced their own wars---personal or otherwise"--Provided by publisher.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Celebrated NPR personality and acclaimed author Scott Simon is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner. This astonishing novel is based on his experiences covering the siege of Sarajevo. Teenaged Irena and her parents are forced into hiding when Bosnian Serbs launch their war of ethnic cleansing against Muslims. But Tedic, a strong-willed Muslim man, convinces Irena to become a sniper and take up the defense of her home and people. A deadly chess game, Irena's...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Steven Pressfield is the internationally best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War. An epic of love and war, Last of the Amazons is a gripping, imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with Pressfield's trademark extraordinary attention to detail. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called Amazons.
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"In this tale set during the War for Independence, two intriguing stories emerge. One is of a black freedman, Stuart Brodie. On his return from the war, he finds his brother lynched and his tavern in the backcountry of South Carolina burnt to the ground. Knowing that the guilty party was allied with the Colonial Patriots, he joins the British Army to exact his revenge. The other story is of an abused wife, Marty, who is raped by her husband and his...
14) Ghost warrior
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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For more than a century, Apaches have kept alive the memory of their hero Lozen. This beautiful, valiant warrior and revered shaman fought alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and her own brother, Victorio, holding out against the armies of both the United States and Mexico. Lozen has known since childhood that the spirits have chosen her to defend Apache freedom. As the U.S. Army prepares to move her people to an Arizona reservation, Lozen forsakes marriage...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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I will avenge my husband and children.
Former Marine Corps colonel Amanda Collins and her lethal team of women warriors have vowed to avenge her family's murder.
And they have nothing left to lose....
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard--and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation--is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. With three violent acts at...
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Hurricane wars volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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...
20) Loving Meg
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When Meg Cameron joined the Marines to get an education, she never counted on being deployed to a war zone. Now that she's home, both she and her husband Ben are struggling with the toll war, separation, and regrets have taken on their marriage. Meg is tormented by guilt over the death of a military dog and the kiss she shared with her commanding officer as he comforted her. Her husband, Ben, is the love of her life, how could he possibly forgive...
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