Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth are slaves owned by a Loyalist couple living in New York City in this novel set during the Revolutionary War. Dismayed by the conditions of her life, Isabel decides to seek freedom for herself and Ruth by becoming a spy for the rebel armies. However, she soon... Read more

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"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophies... Read more

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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African-American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint. ... Read more

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Twelve-year-old Vahan Kenderian, the son of an influential Armenian family in Turkey, struggles to survive alone after witnessing the deaths of many of his family and friends during the Armenian massacres of the early twentieth century. ... Read more

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Narrated by the ghost of soldier killed in Vietnam, the novel tells the story of Paco Sullivan, the lone survivor of a firebombing raid, a man who is something of a ghost himself. In a small Texas town Paco takes a job as a dishwasher and tries to make a simple life for himself even though he's haun... Read more

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In the aftermath of World War Two, young men and women living in Europe and Asia must reconstruct their lives amid the ashes of war, including a young soldier who confronts the reality that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman living in Japan who tends to her dying brother. ... Read more

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In twelth-century England, after his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally punished for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart.In twelfth-century England, afte... Read more

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When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War. ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Award, this novel of courage, violence, and passion was the basis of the famous film starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra. This first book in James Jones's epic WW II trilogy follows the lives of the men and women stationed in Diamond Head, Hawaii, on ... Read more

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The novelists interpretes and dramatizes the October 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved. ... Read more

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THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext... Read more

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Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces - and puts you in the middle of the ... Read more

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