Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1986) | SEMPER FI (Corps#1) -
First in the author's five-volume series The Corps, SEMPER FI sets the stage for WW II. It is the '30s, and we meet the old corps, as it existed between WW I and WW II -- on station in Shanghai, at Quantico, in Washington, all nicely contrasted with civilian life stateside.
But the calendar is moving relentlessly toward a fatal day in 1941. When it comes, we understand why nothing could ever be the same again -- and what it's going to take to win the awful conflict into which we have been bloodily and unpreparedly thrust.
"Lots of action and a love for the U.S. military and its men. Griffin delivers!" (The Dallas Morning News)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1987) | CALL TO ARMS Corps#2 -
When the United States entered WW II, the first strategic decision arrived at was victory in Europe. The Japanese had a reprieve.
Nevertheless, something more than a holding operation was called for in the vast Pacific battleground. Thus, the Marine Raiders were born. Their mission: "butcher and bolt" (Churchill's term).
CALL TO ARMS, the second book in The Corps series, deals realistically with the early days of the Raiders, specifically with their first tenuous combat operations. The location, Makin Island in the South Pacific, was to be replayed many times over in the next few years, and was to be characterized by implacable Marine resolve, ultimately successful against fanatical Japanese resistance.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1990) | COUNTERATTACK (Corps#3) -
No one captures the drama of war as brilliantly as bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin. The Corps is his multi-volume portrait of the Marine Corps, the brave men and women who fought, loved and died in the sweeping turmoil of WW II.
COUNTERATTACK, the third book in the series, highlights America's first bold counterstrike against the Japanese: Guadalcanal. Bitterly resisted by Japanese troops, the U.S. Marines fought a close, bloody and gruelling battle to its successful conclusion.
"The Corps combines the best elements of military history and the war story -- the telling detail and political tangle of one mated to the energy and sweep of another." (Publishers Weekly)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN(© 1991) | BATTLEGROUND (Corps#4) -
The saga of The Corps continues in Volume IV of W.E.B. Griffin's remarkable series. BATTLEGROUND tells of the bloody months spanning Midway and Guadalcanal. Ace pilot Charles Galloway wins command of a fighter squadron but nearly forfeits his life in combat. Officer Candidate John Marston Moore volunteers for a mission of great danger and secrecy. Colonel Frank Goettge leads a patrol into the heart of danger and pays the ultimate price. These are the men of the Corps and this is their story...of courage, loyalty, dedication and honor.
"Brilliantly informed by detail and realism. As our collective memory of WW II fades, a series like The Corps is not only worthwhile, it is a public service." (The Washington Times)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1992) | LINE OF FIRE (Corps#5) -
Follows the Marines into a valiant, bloody arena. While the battle for the Solomons rages, two Marines are trapped at a coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island. A Team gets the assignment: rescue those troops!
From Guadalcanal to the Pentagon, this story crackles with realism and adventure. Though fiction, its rich characters and dramatic heroes seem more real than fact.
"The Corps combines the best elements of military history and the war story, the telling detail and political tangle of one mated to the energy and sweep of the other" (Publishers Weekly)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1993) | CLOSE COMBAT (Corps#6) -
As Japanese forces mass to take Guadalcanal back from the Yanks, every American fighting man tenses for the effort. It will be the challenge of their lives.
This is the story of one of the great trials of the Marine Corps, and of the marines themselves, of an elite fraternity united by courage and honor. Filled with crackling realism and adventure, CLOSE COMBAT is a captivating novel, further proof, in the words of Tom Clancy, that "W.E.B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition!"
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1996) | BEHIND THE LINES (Corps#7) -
Continues the author's look at the Marine Corps during WWII, using guerrilla action behind the lines in the Philippines as foreground to tell the behind-the-lines tale of the power struggle among Marine General Fleming Pickering, General Douglas MacArthur and Bill Donovan of the fledgling OSS, all of whom are galvanized into action by a radio message from a self-proclaimed general named Wendell Fertig, who has established himself as a guerrilla leader against the Japanese. An absorbing story with attention to dialogue. | Y
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1998) | IN DANGERS PATH part 1 (Corps#8a) -
Desperate to find someone to unite the warring interests of General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, and OSS Chief William Donovan, FDR puts Brigadier General Pickering in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations. Immediately, two urgent missions fall into his lap: to rescue American ex-servicemen and their families fleeing the Japanese in the Gobi Desert, and to set up a weather station in the desert to aid in air attacks on the Japanese. Given free rein to use whomever he pleases, Pickering enlists men like Ken McCoy, Ed Banning, and Ernie Zimmerman, Marines with high morale and low morals and - much to his surprise - Malcolm Pickering, his son. Together they venture into terra very much incognita...and, with any luck, may even come out alive. Through seven books, W.E.B. Griffin's MARINE CORPS has proven itself one of the country's most popular series.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1998) | IN DANGERS PATH part 2 (Corps#8b) -
"Griffin's Corps series gets only better; his long look at a small segment of the war is high-quality history and storytelling." (Kirkus Reviews) | Y
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1994) | HONOR BOUND (part 1) (HB#1a) -
October 1942. At a secret rendezvous point off the coast of neutral Argentina, a small merchant ship delivers supplies to Nazi submarines and raiders. The Office of Strategic Services is determined to sabotage the operation by any means necessary. But one of the key saboteurs enlisted, a young U.S. Marine ace aviator by the name of Clete Frade, finds himself fighting his own private battle between duty and honor when he discovers the reason he was chosen—to gain the trust and support of a powerful Argentinean, his own flesh and blood, the father he never knew... | Y
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1994) | HONOR BOUND (part 2) (HB#1b) -
In this sequel to HONOR BOUND, the OSS sends Cletus Frade, Marine Corps pilot, back to Buenos Aires. His intelligence mission is two-fold: uncover a plot to topple the Argentine government and find truth behind a report of a German ship re-supplying submarines in Argentine waters. In the midst of it all, Nazis murder Frade's father, igniting bloodlust in the son.
Threading his way between Axis and Allied sympathizers, and even between rival OSS and FBI factions, Frade strives his utmost to fulfill his mission, punish his father's assassins -- and stay alive.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1996) | BLOOD AND HONOR (part 1) (HB#2a) -
"An exotic setting and a complex plot...sturdy entertainment." (Publishers Weekly) | Y
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1996) | BLOOD AND HONOR (part 2) (HB#2b) -
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| W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (© 1944) | THE RAZOR'S EDGE -
This is the story of a young man in search of himself. It is set in Paris, the Riviera and the East, all areas the author knows well. As the record of a journey of human spirit, it stands with OF HUMAN BONDAGE as one of the great English novels of our time.
THE RAZOR'S EDGE has twice been adapted successfully to the screen--in 1946, starring Tyrone Power, and again in 1984 with Bill Murray as the young American Larry Darrell.
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| JOHN MORTIMER | RUMPOLE A LA CARTE -
Here are six delightful tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister for the defense, Horace Rumpole. Delicious characters such as his wife, Hilda, otherwise known as She Who Must Be Obeyed, and his philandering colleague, Claude Erskine-Brown, are back as Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant where he engages in a battle of wills over his adored mashed spuds, takes the unaccustomed role of prosecutor, and ventures-unwillingly-onto a ship where he confronts, of all things, a detective novelist.
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| JOHN MORTIMER (© 1978) | RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY -
Positively the most enduring and endearing character to spring forth from English crime literature in the past decade, John Mortimer's Horace Rumpole is an utter delight. Indeed Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister at law, is so peculiarly compelling that he has frequently been compared with Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, and Sherlock Holmes-the most loved of all eccentric English characters.
The hilarious richness of Rumpole's personality (he is known on occasion to quote Wordsworth while defending an accused murderer), his immense honesty, and his dogged determination to defend justice at all costs are an incomparable mix. | Y
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| SUZE ORMAN (© 1999) | THE COURAGE TO BE RICH -
How to meet obstacles from buying a home to defining our responsibilities and self-worth. Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial; addresses the rites of passage we all must face ... marriage, divorce, death, spending and overspending; taking control of our financial tomorrows today.
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