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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power - another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
5) We belong
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
7) The Jersey brothers: a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is "liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it's all true" (The New York Times).
They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill, a naval intelligence officer, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret...
They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill, a naval intelligence officer, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sent to Manila to discover why her company's microloan cooperatives are failing, Julia Wentworth discovers that a cleint's two daughters have been kidnapped. Determined to find the girls, Julia recruits an old friend and romantic attachment to help -- detective Monty -- and the pair uncovers a crime ring much more elaborate and dangerous than they could have ever anticipated.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
As World War II drew closer to the Philippines, Florence Finch transformed from a mild-mannered wife into a fervent resistance fighter. She conceived a bold plan to divert tons of precious fuel from the Japanese army, which was sold on the black market to provide desperately needed medicine and food for hundreds of American POWs. In constant peril of arrest and execution, she fought to save others.
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