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Tuổi Thơ Dữ Dội by Phùng Quán
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Tuổi thơ dữ dội" là một tác phẩm truyện dài bảy phần của nhà văn Phùng Quán. Truyện được khởi thảo bên bờ Hồ Tây năm 1968 và hoàn thành trong lều cỏ giữa hồ Tịnh Tâm năm 1986. Cuốn truyện xoay quanh cuộc sống chiến đấu và sự hy sinh của những thiếu niên 13, 14 tuổi trong hàng ngũ Đội thiếu niên trinh sát của trung đoàn Trần Cao Vân...Categorized as:
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The Battle of Hackham Heath by John Flanagan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTHE SAME WORLD. BRAND NEW STORIES.The peace in Araluen is under threat and newly crowned King Duncan must prepare for war. Morgarath is in hiding, recruiting an army of savage beasts known as Wargals for his next attack.Halt prepares for a seemingly impossible task – to scale the Mountains of Rain and Night to spy on the enemy and uncover their plans...Categorized as:
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Legionary by Hector Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus... -
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo, Mike Grady
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe stunning new novel of World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller. May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost…and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy...Categorized as:
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Scythian by Hector Miller
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus...Categorized as:
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The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg...Categorized as:
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Rush Revere and the First Patriots by Rush Limbaugh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSubstitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens...Categorized as:
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War Horse by Nick Stafford, Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI want you to do yourself proud, Joey. You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from, and then come home to me.At the outbreak of World War one, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Caught up in enemy fire, fate takes Joey on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land...Categorized as:
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Rush Revere and the American Revolution: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new book from the #1 New York Times and nationally syndicated radio talk show host...Categorized as:
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Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she likes it that way. Sometimes Cracker remembers when she was younger, and her previous owner would feed her hot dogs and let her sleep in his bed. That was nice, too...Categorized as:
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To Whisper Her Name by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet at Nashville's historic Belle Meade Plantation, the most influential thoroughbred stud farm in America's history, To Whisper Her Name weaves the struggles of real people of the post-war South with the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal... -
The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung Michael of Hungary carries an acorn all the way from his castle home in Chestry Valley to the warm soil of the Hudson Valley farm in the USA where he makes a new home after WWII...Categorized as:
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The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father.The repentant prodigal Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay... -
The Valentine's Curse by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes you back to the Old West, where two strangers find love in the least likely place, with the least likely person, just in the nick of time . .Categorized as:
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Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the aftermath of World War One, everyone is trying to rebuild their lives. If Ben is to avoid being sent back to the orphanage, he needs to find his brother Sam, wounded in action and is now missing...Categorized as:
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I Am the Great Horse by Katherine Roberts
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA thundering epic about Bucephalus, young Alexander the Great's fierce, fiery, battle-scarred stallion--straight from the horse's mouth."I am the dark horse, Bucephalus. I am no black beauty. I am a stallion trained for war... -
Plantation Trilogy: Deep Summer, The Handsome Road, and This Side of Glory by Gwen Bristow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow’s spellbinding Plantation Trilogy compiled in a single volume The Plantation Trilogy is an epic series of historical novels that bring to life the history of Louisiana, from its settlement in the late eighteenth century to the post–World War I era, via the intertwined lives of the members of three families: the Sheramys, the Larnes, and the Upjohns... -
Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics—all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes...Categorized as:
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Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...Categorized as:
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A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi...Categorized as:
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Saving Zasha by Randi Barrow
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn post WWII Russia, one boy dares to save an entire race of outlawed dogs -- the German shepherd!World War II has just ended when thirteen-year-old Mikhail finds a dying man and his German shepherd, Zasha, in the woods. It's dangerous -- some say traitorous -- to own a German dog after Germany attacked Russia, so Mikhail must keep Zasha a secret to keep her alive...Categorized as:
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Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War...Categorized as:
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An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene...Categorized as:
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The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly—something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into a man he learns that life for someone like him is not easy. Black people distrust him because he looks white...Categorized as:
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The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Hayward Morse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this, the fourth of the series, Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son who fights for the Confederate South, is plunged into the most desperate battle of the Civil War, the fight at Antietam. Replaced as commander of the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck is given command of a punishment battalion, a unit composed of failures, cowards and misfits...Categorized as:
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Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal...Categorized as:
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War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsJoey is a warhorse, but he wasn't always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields...Categorized as:
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The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack in print from Purple House Press!Two rooms all to themselves—it was almost too good to be true! For this was postwar Germany, filled with starving, homeless people trying to stay alive amidst the rubble, and to the Lechows the two freezing attic rooms in Mrs. Verduz’ house on Parsley Street were an unbelievable stroke of luck...Categorized as:
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Lords of Misrule by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStill tied to his desk in the Intelligence Office, Colonel Eden Maxwell has become increasingly disenchanted with both Oliver Cromwell and his own daily existence; and with the advent of new Royalist conspiracies, he despairs of ever getting away. Then a brick hurled through the window of a small workshop sets in motion a new and unexpected chain of events...Categorized as:
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Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan, Taylor Rickard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic love story in war-ravaged Culpeper during the Civil War where an unlikely romance blossoms between the widowed Rebecca and the dashing Union Officer Colonel Charles. Can their love survive the agony of war?It's 1864 in Culpeper, Virginia, and the Civil War is raging. War widow Rebecca Gaines struggles to manage the family farm on her own...Categorized as:
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The Heart of Home (Timeless Love) by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a limited time, get The Heart of Home and six other novellas in The Timeless Love Collection all for only .99! All proceeds go to benefit the LiveStrong Foundation. Collection releases June 19th. Get it here: https://amzn.to/2Kk3A4l Once a wistful romantic, Opal Martin now simply aspires to scrub the remnants of the War Between the States from her tattered life...Categorized as:
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Finding Mercy: A Novel by Michael Landon Jr., Cindy Kelley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Mercy abandons Captain Elijah Hale to search for her true identity, he goes after her. With the threat that bounty hunters might be hot on her trail, Mercy does all she can to stay ahead of the danger, frustrating both the bad men who are after her—and Captain Hale who wants to find her and escort her safely home...Categorized as:
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Winnie's Great War by Lindsay Mattick, Josh Greenhut
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA wartime adventure unfolds through the eyes of the world’s most beloved Bear. The story of the real bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh has been capturing readers’ imaginations since the publication of the Caldecott Medal award-winning picture book, Finding Winnie.But there was so much left to be told – not just about Winnie, but about the great world events she witnessed...Categorized as:
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Midnight Rider by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFourteen-year-old Hannah is an orphan living with her cruel aunt Phoebe in Salem, Massachusetts. Hannah recently lost her mother, and now her only comfort is her horse, Promise. But when her money-hungry aunt sells the horse and then indentures Hannah to the Boston family of a British general, Hannah vows to retrieve Promise at all costs, and join the fight for freedom...Categorized as:
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An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II.1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time.And what a story...Categorized as:
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Duke by Kirby Larson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA poignant World War II story about a boy and his dog and his dad, and the many meanings of bravery, from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson. With World War II raging and his father fighting overseas in Europe, eleven-year-old Hobie Hanson is determined to do his part to help his family and his country, even if it means giving up his beloved German shepherd, Duke... -
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe classic story of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor comes alive with vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Greg Hildebrandt. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the jolly Fellowship of the Greenwood with these rollicking tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief...Categorized as:
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The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to avenge her mother’s deathEarly one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter’s life... -
Geef me de ruimte! by Thea Beckman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMarije is vijftien, als ze Brugge ontvlucht om aan een huwelijk met haar verachte verloofde te ontkomen. Op haar gevaarlijke tocht naar het Zuiden ontmoet ze de jongen van haar leven, een zanger, met wie ze door het rumoerige Frankrijk trekt.Al jaren woedt daar de Honderdjarige Oorlog met Engeland...Categorized as:
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The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion...Categorized as:
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The Butterfly Lion (First Modern Classics) by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew edition of the Smarties-Prize-winning story from the former Children’s Laureate. Now published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers.A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub from the African veld...Categorized as:
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The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe murderous Rapscallion army is on the move. Dealt a humiliating defeat by Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, the Badger Lady of Salamandastron, who still pursues them, the Rapscallions are heading inland to take an even greater prize: the peaceful Abbey of Redwall. The elite fighting unit of hares, the Long Patrol, is called out to draw them off...Categorized as:
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Abe Lincoln At Last! by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House! Are you ready for a presidential adventure? Jack and Annie are! They are trying to get a special feather that will help save Merlin’s baby penguin, Penny. When the magic tree house whisks them back to Washington, D.C...Categorized as:
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Clay Legionary by J. Clifton Slater
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClay Legionary, book #1 of Clay Warrior Stories: A gladius is a short sword. A prodigy is a talented youth. Put them together and people die.Welcome to the world of 271 B.C. One thing separates the civilized farms and towns of the Republic from hordes of murderous barbarians. Standing sentinel along the border is the heavy infantry of the Legion, the Republic's killing machine...Categorized as:
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The Mitchells: Five for Victory by Hilda van Stockum
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people -- join the Mitchells, she hardly has time to think about dogs...Categorized as:
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The King's Falcon by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Following his coronation in Scotland, Charles ll leads an army south to reclaim his throne but the dream ends in a crushing defeat at Worcester, leaving no other choice but flight...Categorized as:
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The Legacy of Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the ashes of war...fueled by lust, greed, and passion, they rose to splendorous new heights.... Three generationsn of men and women...the masters and slaves whose sacrifice and savagery made Beulah Land the pride of the Old South...the sons and daughters whose seething passions and fierce devotion made it the pride of the New.. -
Vagabond Wind by Amanda Hughes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWild and hard-hearted, Zya Lazar is reckless with her life. Raised by the Romani, she rides with gypsy marauders terrorizing settlers across Virginia. Relishing the violence, the young Melungeon woman seems hell-bent on destruction until a series of events opens her eyes. Retreating to the mountains, Zya finds a more peaceful existence, but it does not last...Categorized as:
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The Road to Magnolia Glen by Pam Hillman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1792, Natchez Trace, MSBitter since his eldest brother abandoned their family in Ireland, Quinn O’Shea travels to Natchez, Mississippi, ready to shuck the weight of his duty and set off on an adventure of his own. It’s time Connor, as head of the family, took responsibility for their younger siblings. While aboard ship, a run-in with three Irish sisters lands Quinn in the role of reluctant savior...Categorized as:
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The Empire by Richard Todd
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeptember 11, 2001. Padma Mahajan mourns the loss of her newlywed husband, Major Kyle Mason, killed while defeating terrorists from crashing American 11 into the World Trade Center. As she watches harrowing videos on TV of American 11 missing the North Tower by mere feet, a mysterious visitor enters her apartment. possessing stunning knowledge about the future...
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