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A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
8) Allies
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It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
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Traitor's trilogy volume 1
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344 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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"Sage Fowler, the apprentice to a matchmaker, becomes a spy for the army to uncover a treasonous plot and finds herself entangled in a romance with a soldier"--
Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls, and on the soldiers escorting them. Recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks, Sage...
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Traitor's trilogy volume 3
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391 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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After an assassination attempt, Sage and her fiancé attempt to undercover who the traitor is and work to avoid a war with another country.
Once a spy and counselor to the throne, Sage Fowler secured victory for her kingdom at a terrible cost. Now an ambassador representing Demora, Sage faces her greatest challenge: avoiding a war with a rival kingdom. After an assassination attempt destroys the chance for peace, Sage and her fiancé Major Alex Quinn...
12) Agincourt
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451 pages : map ; 24 cm
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A fugitive English forester and mercenary defender saves young novitiate Melisande and, defending himself from a vengeance-seeking rapist priest and Melisande's father, finds himself slogging his way to Agincourt as an archer in King Henry V's army.
13) Papa's backpack
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Illustrations and rhyming text portray a bear cub who understands that because Papa is a soldier, he sometimes must go, but imagines what it would be like to stay near by riding in Papa's backpack.
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Shadow campaigns volume 1
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viii, 513 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she's promoted to a command post.
15) Hullmetal girls
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313 pages ; 22 cm
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Aisha Un-Haad, seventeen, and Key Tanaka, eighteen, have risked everything for new lives as mechanically enhanced soldiers, and when an insurrection forces dark secrets to surface, the fate of humanity is in their hands.
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484 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Esha lost everything in the royal coup--and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she's made the guilty pay. Now she's been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path-even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has only been growing more volatile. When Esha and Kunal's...
17) My big brother
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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When his big brother leaves to become a soldier, a boy does what he can to take his place in the family.
18) Four-four-two
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Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
19) Dear John
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viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
20) Faraway blue
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303 pages ; 22 cm
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A fictionalized account of a real-life, 19th century black soldier who fought against the Indians in New Mexico. He is Moses Williams, an ex-slave serving as sergeant in the Ninth Cavalry, and facing him is the great Apache warrior, Nana.
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