Teen Military

In a ruined world, choices are a thing of the past. What happens when a Creation seizes hers anyway? Nearly a century ago, an extraterrestrial attack destroyed the majority of the world and decimated humanity. In a time of war, protection is needed. Designed to fight for their country, twins Kylie and Luke Alexander are Second Generation Creations, emotionless genetically altered fighters. They have one mission. Fight and live to fight again. But these twins are hiding impossible feelings and deadly secrets.

Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861. Jan is a German immigrant who begins his studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. Emma is a Quaker who has learned survival skills growing up in a thick forest. Gabrielle, is a Southerner, was raised by her governess and wealthy Virginian father. Maura travels alone to America from Ireland to escape the potato famine and eventually enters the convent as a Sister of Mercy.

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government's radar. Then her mother is arrested. The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading shelter is to enlist in the militia, the faceless army that polices the lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth dwellers.

In this romantic and evocative fantasy, Najwa is a jinni, training to be a spy in the war against the humans. Zayele is a human on her way to marry a prince of Baghdad - which she’ll do anything to avoid. So she captures Najwa and makes a wish. With a rush of smoke and fire, they fall apart and re-form - as each other. A jinni and a human, trading lives. Both girls must play their parts among enemies who would kill them if the deception were ever discovered - enemies including the young men Najwa and Zayele are just discovering they might love.

Norma D. Davis has struggled with finally telling the truth about how betrayal almost caused her to give up on sisterhood and brotherhood all together when a female soldier helped a male soldier rape her because her sexual moral compass remained the same despite the pressure. Davis only spoke with mental health officials about the traumatic experience and betrayal in 2008 for the first time. Davis came forward and decided that young adults, veterans, males, and females who are heading out into the world need to always be aware of the evil that lurks around them.

Annie et Lee n'étaient encore que des enfants lorsqu'une violente révolution a renversé leur monde, offrant à tous - y compris aux citoyens de basse naissance - la possibilité d'accéder à l'élite dirigeante des dragonniers. Issue d'une famille pauvre, Annie a perdu toute sa famille dans une exécution par feu de dragon. De son côté, Lee aux origines aristocratiques, a vu tous ses proches assassinés par les révolutionnaires. Tout oppose les deux jeunes orphelins, à commencer par leur passé, pourtant les voilà propulsés parmi les étoiles montantes du nouveau régime.

Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. They set out to find what's left of their family, carrying between them 10 dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, a notebook, and a stack of letters from their brother, who is serving a tour in Vietnam. And soon into their journey, they have a ride. With a man and a beautiful girl who may be in love with Jonah. Or Simon. Or both of them.

For Jason and his fiancé Thelma, the bomb meant he never had to invade Japan and maybe die or at least be wounded. For Fred, the bomb means guilt and fear, wondering why it had to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as his wife Sally tries to help him. For Soviet and East German scientists trying to develop a sufficient weapon of mass destruction means involuntary servitude to a nation intent on catching America in an arms race. For a federal employee who worked where the first bomb was developed, life spirals into a search for an escape from nuclear annihilation. When Jason discovers ...

The city of Kurkelly is near bankruptcy. Visisystems, a powerful tech corporation, cunningly takes advantage of the city’s weak position to impose their will on the populace under the guise of assistance and cooperation. Kurkelly’s homeless are mysteriously disappearing while Visisystems tightens its ruthless grip on the city. Mike Fletcher, young guitarist in the band Nova Pulse, discovers his new amplifier has deadly powers. When his bandmates get brutalised by Visisystems’ intimidating security force, Mike fights back using his new musical powers, enlisting in Street Shield, a ...

World War 2 started as two different wars that merged as one. It became the deadliest war in human history. What can we learn from World War 2?

Situated in the northern section of the Texas Hill Country lies the small town of Marble Falls, cut in half by the Texas Colorado River. In March of 2021, not long after the insurrection on the United States democracy, the tranquil town is hit with the after shocks of hate and hypocrisy set in stone from the previous four years. The top alt-right groups in the nation expand their membership deep into the ranks of Marble Falls High School. Students are cheated out of their normal teenage life by the Covid 19 Pandemic. Many are forced to attend classes at home via Zoom, others are made to ...

Creations have become the new enemy in the America. With the Vojin manipulating the Guidance, no Creation is safe, and the America will be defenseless against the Zombies that now roam freely. Unless Kylie can find the light within her that has laid dormant for so long. Is there any hope for the people of the America? Can Kylie find it within herself to rise up into the person she truly is? There is one possibility for saving everyone and restoring freedom and safety to the land. But it will force Kylie to choose between who she is and who she wants to be.

The thrilling sequel to The Other, L.I.N. an acronym for Living Intelligent Network, the Ai computer system aboard the alien craft discovered in Book 1, follows 19-year-old Kaetlyn O'Sullivan's harrowing adventure as she wakes up from a coma after having been shot in the head by a fanatic. During her comatose state, she penetrates deeper into her past life and discovers she was actually on the alien craft that crashed into the coast of Southern Ireland, not far from the small town where she later grew up, and what her purpose was for coming to Earth at the time. With global powers now going...

Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only family, a one-eyed dog named Lucky. Kind-hearted Mrs Plum is already looking after forty-six dogs for soldiers. She's becoming desperate because there are no wartime rations for dogs. Help arrives when thirteen-year-old Kat Murphy volunteers to take Lucky and persuades the girls at her school to also help. As Kat grows to love Lucky, she realises he can still see his master.

‘The sky split open. A sky of brilliant yellow light; a world of noise that filled his ears like sand at the seaside, so that afterwards there was only total silence’. But silence brings terror and grief to Sonny’s family as they come to terms with the loss of his mother in a German bombing raid. In a fit of anguish and grief, his father joins the RAF to avenge her death, and Sonny is left alone. As he fights for survival, Sonny embarks on his own dramatic and intensely personal confrontation with the enemy….

It begins as a school trip to London. But with a sudden tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm that hurls rainwater down on the capital, it suddenly becomes something totally different: the site of a major disaster as the Thames Barrier is breached and London is flooded. With streets underwater, communications down, rats pouring up out of the sewers, and thousands of people in a state of panic, survival becomes a very key issue for Ben and his mates.

Imagine coming of age surrounded by terror and militancy. Tamar, Nour, and Rivki all live in Jerusalem, and all are on the cusp of adulthood, but in a city of tribal culture and an intractable conflict, it is almost inconceivable they will ever meet, let alone become friends. Then, one night, during yet another cycle of violence, their paths cross just as a terrorist decides to carry out an attack on the light rail train.

The biblical account of Gideon. The ancient story of the Trojan horse. Deceptive techniques have been used in war through the ages. But while the principles have changed very little, the technology behind fooling the enemy has evolved dramatically. Paul B. Janeczko’s fascinating chronology focuses on the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf Wars to reveal evolving attitudes toward the use and effectiveness of deceptive operations.

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly, and disgusting bits about World War II!

No one in the galaxy gives a damn about Kheris, a war-torn mining colony in the Between. Thirteen-year-old Luka is used to running from trouble, living rough with a gang of street kids, stealing from the Imperial troops and selling scavenged tech and intel to the Wintran-backed resistance fighters to survive. But when a mysterious ship crashes in the desert, his life is turned upside down overnight. Suddenly Kheris is on everyone’s radar, and he finds himself caught between the two warring factions.