The Metal Legion is committed to saving all, despite their differences, despite their loyalties. Leeroy Jenkins commits the Metalheads to a battle that makes them traitors to the Republic and enemies of the Solarians. It's the no-win...
War fiction
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Author:Gideon, C. H.Summary: - Author:DeLory, AlisonSummary:
A heartfelt contemporary debut novel set in Syria, Calgary, and Cape Breton. Tinker Gordon doesn’t want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world...
- Author:Marlantes, KarlSummary:
A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way. Then, as he experiences the cost of combat, he begins to see the terrible results of his ambition.
- Author:Winter, MichaelSummary:
Henry Hayward is a drowning man. With a soured long-term romance finally at an end, no family, and no refuge to be had in work, he progressively spends his days in the solace of alcohol and his nights with a series of interchangeable...
- Author:Chamales, Tom T.Summary:
Set behind enemy lines in Burma, this New York Times bestseller is "easily one of the best novels to come out of World War II" (Los Angeles Times). American soldiers and native Kachin troops battle Japanese forces behind enemy lines in...
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
Winner, 2011 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2016 Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic...
- Author:Gurganus, AllanSummary:
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most...
- Author:Holloway, MeghanSummary:
Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across...
- Author:Goodspeed, Michael J.Summary:
Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf. Hastily recalled from a successful career...
- Author:Resch, AurélieSummary:
1998, Sierra Leone. Une bande armée fait irruption dans un village. Meurtres, viols, pillage. Onika voit sa fille sauvagement tuée sous ses yeux et son fils enlevé pour être enrôlé de force. Réussissant, par miracle, à survivre à cet...
- Author:Simon, ScottSummary:
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...
- Author:Ackerman, SaraSummary:
"A fresh, delightful romp of a novel."-Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code. * SheReads Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2021 pick * Book Reporter Summer Reading pick * BiblioLifestyle...
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including the mesmerizing prince Fathom. It's up to Lyric to unite the Alpha before the second wave of a cataclysmic invasion wipes out mankind for good.
- Author:Poole, MichaelSummary:
When Nathan and Leah meet in Silva Landing, on the Sunshine Coast, in 1913, it is love at first sight; but they find their passion tested at every turn. Leah engages in a battle of wills with her mother, who feels she is too young for a...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American-Mildred Fish...
- Author:Keith, HaroldSummary:
With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. He wants to defend his family from the dreaded Colonel Watie and his Cherokee Indian rebels. After enlisting,...
- Author:Gohlke, CathySummary:
Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany-in the summer of 1939-will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes...
- Author:Cooper, CherylSummary:
This two-ebook bundle presents both books of Cheryl Cooper's Seasons of War saga. Set against a backdrop of the naval War of 1812, the Seasons of War series revolves around the central character of 18-year-old Emily, a granddaughter of...
- Author:Cornwell, BernardSummary:
Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt the rescue of a senior British officer who has been captured by the Tippoo of Mysore's forces, providing him with an escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. Sharpe is the man you...
- Author:Dobozy, TamasSummary:
Winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of...
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