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40341) The Execution
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Plot to kill Hitler volume 2
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Summer 1944.
Max, Gerta, and their parents have abandoned their home and relocated to a safehouse in a different Berlin neighborhood. The Hoffmanns share the tight quarters with the daughter of a captured Becker Circle conspirator -- Kat Vogel, who is Gerta's age. Though they have strict orders to stay inside unless absolutely necessary, the three kids sneak out regularly, all while concocting a plan to keep the spirit of their resistance alive....
40342) Gun Boss of Tumbleweed
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Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but it does him no good-because his gun and his life are not his own. They belong to Gar Malone, the King of Concha Basin, a ruthless rancher driven by his thirst for power, wealth, and conquest.Now Gar has set his sights on the Singing Canyon spread-the richest land in the basin-and he commands Kincaid to run its true owners...
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Since the 1960s, questions have circled the JFK assassination regarding the inner workings of the Warren Commission and the mysterious deaths of Marilyn Monroe and renowned journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, with the truth very much a stranger. But now, bestselling author Mark Shaw exposes cover-ups of that truth through an improbable journey from his early days as a prominent criminal defense attorney and TV network legal analyst to becoming a recognized...
40344) the Battling Pilot
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Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting in the world than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately the blue yonder hasn't been wild at all . . . it's been downright dull. Pete's like a jaded Clark Gable who's hungry for adventure-and he's about to get his fill. Pete has fallen into a rut, flying the same route-New York to D.C.-with the same passengers, day after day after day. He might as well be driving a bus . ....
40345) The Boneshaker
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Thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata-self-operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his traveling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp and an uncanny ability to make Natalie's half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the...
40346) The Memory Keeper
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Charity Evans wants nothing more than to leave her troubled past behind and start afresh. The teacher at a London school for orphans is encouraged to have her memories blocked by hypnotist Samuel Gladstone, but when they experience visions with an unknown third person, they realize the past can never be truly erased. Now her past is returning to haunt Charity all over again. Samuel is determined to help her, but how can a woman who trusts no man trust...
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Arizona's Superstition Mountains are mysterious, forbidding, and dangerous. The Superstitions are said to have claimed over five hundred lives. What were these people looking for? Is it possible that these mountains hide a vast treasure? Is it possible that UFOs land here? Is it possible that in these mountains there is a door leading to the great underground city of the Lizard Men? Join Josh, a skeptical journalist, as he explores the mysteries...
40348) Heartfire
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Winterkill trilogy volume 3
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This richly imagined alternate history will appeal to fans of Delirium, Wither, and The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Emmeline and Matisa have arrived at the land of Matisa's people, but the Dominion's troops are moving in. Matisa's people have prepared for battle, but the Dominion's weapons are brutal. To secure their survival, they will need something so important the Dominion will have to leave them in peace. Matisa and Em think they know what they...
40349) The Escape
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Plot to kill Hitler volume 3
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July 1945.
The Nazis are out for blood.
After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin. Max and Gerta, along with their mother and Kat Vogel, are forced to leave their father behind-at the mercy of the Gestapo.
Following the same path that the Becker Circle used to smuggle Jewish escapees to safety, the Hoffmanns begin a desperate journey across Germany, through occupied France, and into Spain.
But going on the run is incredibly...
40350) A Better Quality of Murder
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 3
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From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a murder mystery set in Victorian London featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband (Kirkus Reviews).
As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer...
40351) Who Is Carrie?
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Arabus family saga volume 3
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Carrie has been a kitchen slave in Sam Fraunces' tavern in New York City for as long as she can remember. But after she narrowly escapes a kidnapper, Carrie becomes more curious about her mysterious past. After all, she doesn't even know her own last name. When her friend Dan Arabus comes to town, he talks about his dream of buying his mother's freedom with the Continental notes his father left him. Deciding to help Dan discover how much the notes...
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A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south.
Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda...
40353) When Morning Comes
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It's 1976 in South Africa.Written from the points-of-view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto-Zanele, a black female student organizer, Meena, of South Asian background working at her father's shop, Jack, an Oxford-bound white student, and Thabo, a teen gang-member or tsotsi-this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of Apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.In the black township...
40354) The Salt Roads
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Nalo Hopkinson's third novel invokes the goddess of love in the name of redemption Hopkinson's time-traveling, genre-spanning novel weaves a common thread of spiritualism and hope through three intertwined stories of women possessed by Ezili, the goddess of love, as she inspires, inhabits, and guides them through trying personal and historical moments. Jeanne Duval is a talented entertainer suffering from the ravages of a sexually transmitted disease;...
40355) The Medium
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Emily Chambers spirit medium trilogy volume 1
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Spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn't a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there's the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father's death (yes, a year), Emily is as much a mystery as the ghost assigned to her. Jacob Beaufort's spirit has been unable to crossover since...
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Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. How do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with limited mobility? With hard work-and an unlikely horse named Jubilee. After years of training together and creating...
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“Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks” is a passionate and deeply moving story about a father-son relationship, a culture rooted in family, food and wine, and an ancestral small town in Central Italy that was left behind after World War II.
On November 11, 1943, the Germans invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision, fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Germans, or move...
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This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement's frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government-run programs...
40359) Swann's War
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An intelligent and thrilling literary fiction
whodunit for fans of Delia Owens and Jacqueline Winspear
The Second World War is
raging overseas, but life remains painfully quiet on the rugged New England
fishing island of Fourth Cliff-an afterthought of an island now home to only
aged fishermen, drunks, and an Italian POW camp guarded by damaged and subpar
American soldiers.
With her husband Archie,
the island's beloved police captain, off...
40360) The Waterboy
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Where do you hide from yourself?
Zale Teague grew up thinking he was an ordinary boy-until the day he called lightning from the skies and caused an explosion with horrific results. Now, at only eleven, he is on the run across England to protect his loved ones from disaster. But can he ever outrun the demon within?
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