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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Full of drama and intrigue, with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink, this is the true story of a German agent sent to the United States during World War I to launch a terror campaign of sabotage and murder, and the American counterintelligence effort that led to his capture"--
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"He'd always simply been her best friend. But when Noah Cahill moved back to town, bookstore owner Twyla Thompson knew something was different. Was it holiday memories of the loss they'd both shared or Noah's surprising decision to reignite a dangerous career? Their solid friendship had been through so much, yet now Twyla grew breathless every time Noah was near. Why wasn't Noah-handsome, fun, but never one to cross the line-showing any signs of stopping?"--...
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"From the editor's introduction: "This anthology offers a fictional tour of Jerusalem, this time through the lens of the noir genre. Not all the stories in this book include a detective, a femme fatale, or a dead body. In fact, a significant number of the writers chose to avoid these genre staples. And yet the stories-each taking place in a different part of the city-sketch a dark imagined map of the city, where religious mystery dwells alongside...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely...
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English
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"When her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her, 13-year-old Corky Corcoran, in 1964 Texas, befriends America and asks her to play with her girls' softball team which, crossing the color line and setting off a firestorm, brings big changes that will last a lifetime."--
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
20231114
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
9) Struck dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Bonnie Meadow Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a tragic hit-and-run takes the life of a hardworking family man, multi-millionaire Christopher Hillington becomes the prime suspect, and the whole city of New York alights with speculation as to what happened. But before the NYPD can establish Hillington’s guilt, he himself is brutally murdered in his own home. As he lays dying, he scrawls the name Casey Woods with his own blood, and the Forensic Instincts team is drawn into a complex mystery...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson...
11) Wild love
Author
Series
Rose hill ; 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
20240409
Language
English
Description
She's been driving him wild for years ... the good kind of wild. The kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her. Forbes may have labelled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he's...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
20240312
Language
English
Description
"Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for his intense devotion to the soldiers whom he called "my boys," Kapaun became the most decorated chaplain in US military history, awarded a Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Legion of Merit. But Father Kapaun's leadership,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
14) Mean guns
Publisher
MVD Rewind Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The world's most dangerous criminals are summoned to a new prison on the eve before its grand opening by Moon, the ruthless leader of the world's most powerful crime syndicate. Chaos ensues when weapons and ammunition are passed around and the group, including Lou, begin their fight to survive. The last three men standing by midnight have been promised $10,000,000 in cash by Moon, who watches from his surveillance camera as gunfire and bodies fly....
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
20240402
Language
English
Description
"After a failed engagement and her mother’s battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter’s life is finally turning around now that she’s landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn’t see coming was the imminent closure of the school’s music program. She’s determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There’s no way she’s chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town...
Author
Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Using contemporary sources and modern profiling techniques, the authors flag-up a hitherto little-known suspect as London's most infamous mass-murderer. A sensational new theory - and an insight into the late Victorian city through an intensively researched social history. Between May 1887 and February 1891, a succession of horrific murders shook Victorian London. During a reign of terror lasting nearly four years, numerous women were attacked. The...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the age of hot takes and trolling, this expansive and funny study of the art and science of trash talk reveals something essential about public life--and even human nature. In the modern economy and culture, fame and virality have become increasinglydifficult to separate from success. From athletes to comedians to politicians to big-ticket CEOs, everyone seemingly has to manage their brand. Saying the wrong thing is often more profitable than...
18) Logo modernism
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With approximately 6,000 logos, this comprehensive collection explores the distillation of Modernism in graphic design"--
19) Selected sonnets
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
'Selected Sonnets' collects 70 of Camoes's best - all musically rendered into contemporary, yet metrical and rhymed, English-language poetry by William Baer, with the original Portuguese on facing pages - and reintroduces the genius of a poet whom Cervantes called 'the incomparable treasure of Lusus'.
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