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English
Description
In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies.
May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day...
Author
Series
Marcus Glenwood novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Florida private eye Jackie Havilland is hired by a congressman's wife to find out whatever she can about an enormous currency scam called Tsunami. Meeanwhile, newly appointed Congressman Wynn Bryant is given clear orders to squash a bill aimed at forgiving Third World debt.
3) Harsh times
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
Author
Series
Jerusalem mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption, and human trafficking, Israeli intelligence agent Maya Rimon tries to stop the killer before his double-edged blade finishes off the entire family. A refugee's discovery of a buried diary in a UN camp holds the key to solving a series...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in All That Is Hidden, the latest in Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series..."--
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in...
7) Augustown
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Language
English
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Description
"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding responsibility. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
126 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Determined to reunite with his family, Alpha sets off from his home in Cote d'Ivoire, bound for Paris, where his sister-in-law has a hair salon near the Gare du Nord train station. Alpha's wife and son left for France months ago, traveling without visas, and he has heard nothing from them since. With a visa, Alpha's journey would take a matter of hours. Without one, he is adrift for over a year, encountering human traffickers in the desert, refugee...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people."--Page 4 of cover.
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