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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There were many real-life female fighters who wowed the ancient and modern worlds with their bravery and skills. This exciting book dives into the history of women who bravely fought--some to the death! Read about Cynane, the half-sister of Alexander the Great, who became the super-slayer of the ancient Greeks, and the rebel fighters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, who repelled a stronger army and ruled Vietnam for three years."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...
Author
Series
Immortal empire volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
ix, 354 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Queen Victoria is the undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground, and where mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. In this world, being part of the nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy--and technology lives side by side with...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The History Channel explores the stories behind the many hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men and secretly enlisted to fight in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
67) Ghost riders
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Immortal empire volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
337 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Xandra Vardan is the newly crowned Goblin Queen of England. But her complicated life is by no means over. There are the political factions vying for her favor, and the all-too-close scrutiny of Queen Victoria, who for some reason wants her head. Not to mention her werewolf boyfriend with demands of his own, and a mother hell-bent on destroying the monarchy. Now she's the suspect in a murder investigation--and Xandra barely knows which way is up....
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
520 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zulu, the first all-female special ops team, was set up to take a devastating fall. Fearing for their lives, Zulu members vanished with new identities. Isolated and haunted by their past, they are terrified of being discovered. Over the years, the brave women of Zulu have begun to hope they might be safe and the terrible tragedy forgotten. Until two of them are murdered.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A stand-alone tie-in to the successful comic book series, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi reveals the origins of the Jedi Order on the remote world of Tython, where ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge of the Force while colonizing a dangerous new homeworld.
71) The stopover
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
On their way home from Afghanistan, a band of French soldiers stop in Cyprus for decompression: three days at a sun-splashed resort, where they will undergo intense psychological debriefing. There, amidst the crystal-blue waters and hordes of vacationing tourists, Marine and Aurore, two of only three women in their male-dominated unit: confront rage, trauma, and army sexism as they struggle to readjust to "normal" life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 347 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Strong Ones is the inspiring true story of forty-five civilian women, including the author, who volunteered for a controversial seven-month Army strength study in 1995-and proved just how strong women can get. A hybrid of memoir and military history that will appeal to fans of Wild and Ashley's War, The Strong Ones lays bare the raw emotions, vulnerabilities and body image struggles of those who dug deep to show what it means to be a strong woman-in...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
233 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. * The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The...
80) 40
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and political unrest, a fundamentalist faction emerges. As the Novae Terrae gain power, enticing civilians with bread and circuses, a civil war breaks out between its members and the US government. Mazzy Goodwin, a young soldier, only wants to find her little sister, Ava Lynn. One day, she wakes in a bomb crater to find wings emerged from her back. Has she died? Been gifted wings by God?...
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