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War Novel | Fiction

Newly Released Blossoms and Bayonets
Nov.05.2012
Hi-Dong Chai and Jana McBurney-Lin, the award-winning author of My Half of the Sky, turn their hands to a remarkable story of a family and country torn apart by outside forces. The time is 1942, the place is Japanese-occupied Seoul, Korea. Fifteen-year-old He-Seung is full of fire,...
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Oct.30.2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of Triangles comes an exquisitely told story about a young woman torn between passionate first love and the gripping realities of war. Meet Ashley, a graduate student at San Diego State University. She was raised in northern California reading poetry and...
SEAL Team 666
Sep.18.2012
eview Praise for SEAL Team 666: "Even the supernatural has its own division of terrorist. Thank goodness we have our defenders - SEAL Team 666."—Joe R. Lansdale "Weston Ochse has always been a wised-up, clued-in, completely trustworthy writer of high-action fiction that deserved a wider...
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Aug.27.2012
1943: Twenty-one year old JUDY GARLAND is dropped behind enemy lines to bring back a photograph of German physicist FRANZ KINTNER -who poses a serious threat to the invasion of Normandy: He’s developing a nuclear battery for Hitler’s U-Boats and he must be taken out -trouble is, no-one knows...
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Aug.09.2012
"Hauntingly spare and shimmeringly powerful, Tsetsi's book does what the best books do--it hurls you into a world you may only think you know or understand, and makes it living, breathing and absolutely engrossing." -Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You "I...
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Jun.18.2012
Special anniversary revised edition! Please purchase from Bottom Dog Press. "When it comes to novels written about boot camp life in the United States military, nothing compares to Robert Flanagan's revealing and wonderfully written classic, Maggot."       ...
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May.10.2012
The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her husband's household, even as she plans for...
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May.10.2012
It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband’s murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by her father’s family with the education and security her mother desired for her, but with little understanding and love. Only her...
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May.10.2012
The lives of Shabanu and her family are governed by the winds that sweep across the Cholistan Desert and by centuries-old traditions. Like the winds that carry rain and violent wind storms, traditions are mindless of the desires of a young woman coming of age. Shabanu’s older sister is...
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May.03.2012
  “As long as you know the stars, you will never be lost.” In Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001, Najmah, a young Afghan whose name means ‘star,’ suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are...