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Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
Language
English
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Description
CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power - another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
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Description
Sent to Manila to discover why her company's microloan cooperatives are failing, Julia Wentworth discovers that a cleint's two daughters have been kidnapped. Determined to find the girls, Julia recruits an old friend and romantic attachment to help -- detective Monty -- and the pair uncovers a crime ring much more elaborate and dangerous than they could have ever anticipated.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming—specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know...
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming—specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know...
7) Abiding Hope
Author
Series
Healing Ruby volume 4
Publisher
[Jennifer H. Westall]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After three years of bloodshed in the jungles of the Philippines, guerrilla leader, Matthew Doyle, finds himself on the brink of freedom. The Americans are coming, bringing with them the promise of an end to the terror inflicted by the Japanese army on his mind, body, and soul. For those same three years, Ruby, now known as Grace Doyle, has continued to live in the hope that her husband will one day return to her. She prays for the day they can live...
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
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Description
"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells an amazingly moving story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--
The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty...
10) Saving Grace
Author
Series
Healing Ruby volume 3
Publisher
[Jennifer H. Westall]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:26) Through years of poverty, racial tension, and legal battles, Ruby Graves has suffered the worst the Great Depression could throw at her. But an enemy she couldn't possibly imagine awaits just over the horizon. After she and her brother, Henry, escape to the tropical paradise of the Philippine Islands, Ruby volunteers as a nurse at a medical clinic in Manila. Although surrounded by beauty,...
11) Cat and mouse
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Language
English
12) Tall story
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philippines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
Author
Series
Men at war volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st G.P. Putnam's Sons ed.
Language
English
Description
It is early 1943. In the Philippines, a ragtag American guerrilla army battles the Japanese, under a most unusual commander. In Budapest, an agentmust keep two key prisoners from being interrogated by the Gestapo, his only choice to rescue them - or kill them. In Washington, an Army Air Corps captain suddenly finds himself assigned deep under the sea, his missionan improbable one involving submarines, supplies, arms, and gold. And in Cairo, an undistinquished...
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