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"It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is...but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera--a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera...or...
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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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Heromaker duology volume 1
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English
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"Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory. They are the Heromakers. Raised by the order after being orphaned, Reed grew up surrounded by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She's been counting the days until her initiation, and now one final test stands in her way: shepherding her first hero to glory on the...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself...
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"Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. They were pilots, codebreakers, chemists, translators, truck drivers, and more. Their work was at the heart of the Allied strategy that won World War II. Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the...
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Stackpole Books
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2007.
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English
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Twelve American women serving in the military share their gripping personal stories of combat in Iraq.
In Iraq, the front lines are everywhere—and everywhere in Iraq, no matter what their job descriptions say, women in the U.S. military are fighting. More than 155,000 of them have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003—four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991. More than 430 have been wounded and over seventy killed—almost...
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Cowboys of Cold Creek volume 2
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Harlequin Select
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[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.
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Princeton University Press
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[2014]
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English
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"Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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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...
11) Radar girls
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Mira
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[2021]
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English
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Inspired by the real women of the Women's Air Raid Defense, this extraordinary novel follows Daisy Wilder as she, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, enlists in a top secret program for civilians in the military, which takes her to wartime Hawaii where she finds love, courage, strength, and sisterhood.
12) White Jenna
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Books of Great Alta volume 2
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St. Martin's
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[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.
13) Carly
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Women of Ivy Manor volume 4
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Warner Faith
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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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Hachette Audio
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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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15) Loving Meg
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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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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"Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest or conducting a dusty patrol in Afghanistan. But all of that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon after, Larkin discovers an unexpected treasure--the diary of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the...
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Thorndike
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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...
18) Raven stratagem
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Machineries of empire volume 2
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Solaris
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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.
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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...
20) Fire by night
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Refiner's fire volume 2
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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