war stories

In a small coastal town in North Carolina, three generations of family yearn for redemption amid kidnapping, slavery, love, and illness during the American Revolution.

Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.

Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers. They are told they must kill or be killed, and their world turns into a terrifying struggle to endure and survive.

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 is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive.

Landis Kan searches for the tomb of Skilgannon the Damned, hoping to resurrect the spirit of the beast in order to save the war-torn lands of the Drenai and fulfill an ancient prophecy.

Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to war torn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.

Odile and her fellow librarians stand together and join the Resistance when Nazi's threathen their beloved library. But when the war ends, she tastes the sting of betrayal. Over 40 years later, Lily uncovers her neighbors mysterious past and finds that they share a love of language, but also a dark secret from the past that connects them.

"Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary"--Provided by publisher.

During World War II, a group of Jewish partisans fight together to end the Nazis supreme. Seventeen-year-old Edmund maintains his own inner resolve with memories of his parents and their life before the war.

"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart. Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali's whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American 'aid' on this war-torn Muslim country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious"--OCLC.