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Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it's no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to the empress is double-edged-while Ren's honor draws Zephyr...
Author
Series
Kingdom of three volume 2
Language
English
Description
Zephyr, now a god in a warrior's body, faces challenges as she strives to support her lordess Xin Ren in a tumultuous political landscape, and is determined to overcome fate and make her enemies pay, even when confronting a revelation about Crow's true allegiance.
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military as a type of chemical warfare. While scientists and politicians continue to debate how to best address its human and environmental consequences, the nearly three million Vietnamese whose lives have been shaped by its lingering effects have been largely left out of the conversation. To understand how Agent...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812--a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and...
Author
Series
5th wave volume 2
Publisher
Speak, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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, orset out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--
Author
Publisher
1804 Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan'an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian cause, Kan'an takes the reader through his compelling journey filled with sacrifice and struggle, love and pain, isolation and liberation. All the while, major political and historical transformations unfold across international, regional and local contexts,...
Author
Series
5th wave volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling true story of Canada's greatest spy, Agent A12. In public life, Nova Scotian Dr. Winthrop Bell was a wealthy businessman and Harvard philosophy professor. As MI6 Secret Agent A12, he dodged gunfire and shook pursuers to break open the emerging Nazi conspiracy in electrifying 1919 Berlin. Under cover as a Reuters reporter, he interviewed royalty, military informants, and intellectuals like Albert Einstein and Edith Stein. He followed...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civilwar ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so they turned on each other--pointing fingers at neighbors,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...
14) Hound
Author
Publisher
Mad Cave Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During World War I, a young soldier is assigned to one of the most deadly areas along the Western Front. However, he finds the greatest threat to his life lies not with the enemy, but with a cult formed by his own men.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastatedFrench communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries-Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia-based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
Author
Publisher
Chosen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of Corrie ten Boom, and her faith in the face of evil, is now a visually stunning graphic novel for ages 8-12. Through more than 900 engaging, full-color panels, this real-life heroine comes to life-showing a new generation how even in the most desperate, loneliest, and darkest times, faith, hope, and love will ultimately triumph"--
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