Showing results for title "WAR" in Coming of Age

Eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War.

In a scruffy desert town in 1978, 12-year-old Ares Ramirez lives in a trailer with his mother and younger brother. In this desolate, forgotten place, government fighter planes and helicopters make training runs by night using live ammunition.

Captive to Selene and the five-year Truce, Nath itches to know that his friends are well. Yet he can't seem to change into dragon form again. Maybe if he jumps from this balcony... Brenwar, Pilpin, Shum, and Hoven see the signs that the Dragon King is rallying his dragon army. Gorlee feels drawn to The Deep, certain he will regain his memories down there.

It is the year 2058. The Sino-American War has decimated several generations of men, and the Sterility Epidemic has made 90 percent of the surviving males sterile. Electricity does not function in five western states. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana are territories once again. Collectively, they are known as the Juniper. It is the most dangerous place on Earth. On a desperate post-apocalyptic cattle drive to save their family ranch, Cavatica Weller and her two gunslinging sisters stumble across a rare boy.

On a summer night in the arty enclave of Capitol Hill, Seattle, best friends Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy throw one last blowout party before their lives part ways. At 23 they had planned to move together to Boston for graduate school, but global events have intervened: Montauk has just learned that his National Guard unit will deploy to Baghdad at the end of the summer. In the confusion of this altered future, Corderoy is faced with a moral dilemma.

All that fourteen-year-old Princess Amethyst wanted was to be taken seriously and not to be treated like a child. One day, war came knocking on the doorstep of Gishlan, bringing bloodshed, malice, hate, and fear. Suddenly Princess Amethyst is expected to stop acting like a child and take on grown-up responsibilities to protect her country and her family from the onslaught of violence.

As war rages over Europe, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape from her unhappy home, which is a target of the German Luftwaffe. Caught up by the emotion of the moment, she agrees to marry John, her childhood friend who's leaving to join the RAF; but a meeting with Simon Farley, the son of a local industrialist, and an encounter with Alex Everton, a Spitfire pilot, complicate matters.

Written in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, WP & Me is a story relevant to our times in the COVID era and beyond. It follows a London family as they go through the ravages of war upon them. Standing in huge shopping queues outside stores, dealing with rationing, changes in the schoolyard or the workplace, travel restrictions, and an unruly media often confusing the population - all this they must cope with, not to mention the sense of fear everywhere.

When William gets thrown 500 years into the future, humanity is on its knees in a war for survival. The same gene that sent William to the future brings him other benefits. As his body develops special powers he meets Sara, the resistance's best warrior. Sara is the only other person to have shown these powers and has become formidable in their use.

John Ryan never killed anyone; never even fired a gun in Vietnam. He worked in an air-conditioned building in the safest city in Vietnam. If you had to fight a war, this was the way to do it. Friends, parties, weed, and rock n' roll filled their nights. Laughter and comradery were plentiful. They thought they would serve their tour and escape back to the real world without wounds. War leaves no one untouched. No one escapes. All wounds are not from bullets.

Lucy is finally back with Daniel, but for how long? When she has a dream about Caleb being seriously hurt, she knows that she must do what she can to help him. She gets Caleb back to the motel where she and Daniel are staying, but something isn’t right. When Caleb pushes Lucy for answers, she finds herself in an impossible position, with far too much to lose.

A 13-year-old child serves in the Civil War from July 1861 to June 1862. During that time, he makes friends with other children of the war, travels to places far outside his New Haven home, and has experiences he never thought possible—some exciting and some that give him nightmares. Will he get to go home and see his family again?

The war happened, but only Bobby Booclear remembers it. It lasted less than a day but, in less than six hours, an 11-year-old boy became a war criminal. In Westchester County, New York. It's that kind of story. And Bobby is, finally, telling his version of what happened on that day, in 1954.

Attempting to fill the void left after Lord Pendragon’s death, Anais and her friends manage the war effort, but find leadership fraught with peril. When Anais is called upon to use her powers to fight the furies, she struggles to summon the control required to defeat the enemy without destroying the innocent. Action, adventure and a healthy dose of sorcery abound in the fifth book of the blood mage chronicles.

1945. Rice fields seem endless in a quaint farming village of South Korea, yet Iseul and the villagers have been on the verge of starvation for as long as they can remember. Men are conscripted, and rice is taken to feed the growing army as the Korean Peninsula is thrust into an international war. With nothing but the news of death and hunger awaiting the village of women, children, and the aged, Iseul musters up whatever hope she has left to bring the village together to make paper.

In Brisance, you never know when your childhood will end. With unusual raiders on his father's estate, Liem, only son of an Altolnan Baron and Baroness, discovers through a harrowing and violent experience just how quickly his life can change. With the whole of Brisance on the brink of war, it is often recognition of the smallest acts that effect change and create hope where there was little.

When Charlie first asks Gabe to join him on his quest to become vampires, he immediately wants to say no. They’re only thirteen and have their whole lives ahead of them. It’s a dumb idea. But, after blaming himself for his schizophrenic mother’s injury, the idea starts to sound more appealing. If he was stronger, he could’ve stopped her from running away. If he was faster, he could’ve pushed her out of the street. He needed to be those things, and he needed to be them now.

Auf die Freundschaft?! Drei Freunde Ende zwanzig: Insa, Hannes und Nico sind gemeinsam in einem friesischen Kaff aufgewachsen und auch nach ihrer Flucht aus der Provinz beste Freunde geblieben. Sie sind unzertrennlich und erzählen sich alles - eigentlich. Doch plötzlich häufen sich die Geheimnisse voreinander. Ihre Zukunftspläne scheinen nicht mehr zusammenzupassen: Hannes will zurück ins Dorf und die Werkstatt seines Opas übernehmen, Nico hat sich in eine Frau verliebt, die ein Kind erwartet, und Insa treibt weiter orientierungslos vor sich hin.

A usurper. A sacrifice. A murderer. After ascending to godhood as Queen of the Underworld, Kigal has at last made her kingdom her own - until an equally powerful deity comes to steal the throne. Inanna, Goddess of Warfare and Lust. In her grasp is the one hostage Kigal would do anything to save, even if it means becoming a monster. And a monster she becomes. For her insolence, the goddess’s life is rightfully Kigal’s to claim, but as the heavens turn on each other and the lands begin to die, she finds herself fighting for a justice that even the gods cannot deliver.

Despite a Frank Maddox ordered communication blackout between Lisa and the Band, both sides manage to pick up the pieces after the plane crash that took Ashley's life and begin to prepare for a tour de force to win Ashley the fame and recognition which she was denied. Volume 2 follows Lisa's journey from a starry-eyed child prodigy to an adult, battle-scarred, whetstone-sharpened artist in her own right.