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21) 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.
22) Coming home
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Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
23) Once a soldier
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As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...
24) Hero mom
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A tribute to moms who serve their country in the military reveals their contributions as unsung heroes who construct buildings, fly planes, drive tanks and do many other important things to make the world a safer place.
27) Drifters
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In the final battle over control of Japan in AD 1600, Shimazu Toyohisa is pulled into another world filled with elves, dragons, and other warrior "Drifters," who represent the best samurai from Japan's warring provinces.
28) Unravel me
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"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
29) Blind tiger
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Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...and...
30) G.I. Jane
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The courage and determination of the first woman to join the Navy SEALs is put to the test once it becomes clear that no one wants her to succeed.
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"The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it's happening--through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands. Day after day, Jack tries to assert his leadership in the sweltering, dreary atmosphere of Ashuriyah. But his world is disrupted by the arrival of veteran Sergeant Daniel Chambers, whose aggressive style threatens to undermine the fragile...
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In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete...
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"From the author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before 1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton isa British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is a midwestern American private who might be an insufferable...
36) The warrior
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John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte. On the run from her father - a powerful arms manufacturer - Alicia seeks to expose her father's traitorous crimes of selling weapons to our enemies in Iraq. But Richard Ponte will do anything to stay below the radar, even if it means killing his own daughter, and John feels compelled to protect...
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A determined young man becomes the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver; a lieutenant is assigned to review the background of a woman captain who is posthumously nominated for a medal of honor; a group of young soldiers training for war in Vietnam begin to question authority and their own involvement in combat; an army platoon attempts to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean during...
39) Shavetail
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Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to the dangerous Arizona Territory, where he joins his captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the Apache.
40) Someone to honor
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Abigail Westcott's dreams for the future were lost when her father died, but she now enjoys the independent life of a wealthy single woman. When she meets Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant colonel who has escorted her wounded brother, Harry, home from the Napoleonic Wars, she mistakes him for a servant. Gil takes umbrage at being condescended to--secretly because of his own humble beginnings. Gil and Abigail soon discover how wrong first impressions...
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