The Battle for Iwo Jima

      Robert Leckie
     The Battle for Iwo Jima

On February 19, 1945, the invasion of Iwo Jima was launched. It became the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From it came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on MountSuribachi. When it ended a month later, the Marines had suffered 20,000 casualties and 26 Marines were awarded America¹s highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.

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    Beginner's Luck

      Richard Laymon
     Beginner's Luck

Joyce Walther writes Mysteries---and plays amateur detective. She's always prepared for some on-the-spot crime research if a case comes her way. But Joyce should leave police work to the experts. Because this time she may be playing more than detective---she may be playing the victim.

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    The Lost Girl

      Lilian Carmine
     The Lost Girl

The second book in the Lost Boys seriesEven Death can’t keep them apart...After falling in love with a ghost, Joey has succeeded in saving her boyfriend from Death, not once but twice.But then a mysterious and horrifying creature begins stalking Joey – can Tristan save her before it’s too late?

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    The Wishbone Wish

      Megan McDonald
     The Wishbone Wish

The town's annual Turkey Trot race and festival is coming up, and Judy and Stink are training to win. Judy has decided that she is going to take home the big prize: a fat, juicy turkey. They can taste it already: the moist turkey, the hot gravy, the savory stuffing, the cranberry sauce! Beep! Beep! Beep! That's the sound of Stink's Rapidfire Ultra XE611M25 stopwatch going off as Judy and Stink hop, crawl, and climb toward race day. But what if they don't win a mouthwatering bird? What then? Flying turkey gizzards! Will the Moody family end up starving on T-day, like ye pilgrims of olde, or will Grandma Lou cook up a tasty Franksgiving solution?

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    Nonconformity

      Nelson Algren
     Nonconformity

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery."Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall...

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    I Can See in the Dark (Karin Fossum)

      Karin Fossum
     I Can See in the Dark (Karin Fossum)

Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman comes straight into the house without knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he observes his home.The policeman doesn't tell him why he's there, and Riktor doesn't ask. Because he knows he's guilty of a terrible crime. But it turns out that the policeman isn't looking for a missing person. He is accusing Riktor of something totally unexpected. Riktor doesn't have a clear conscience, but this is a crime he certainly didn't commit.

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