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"Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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Kingdom of three volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Zephyr, now a god in a warrior's body, faces challenges as she strives to support her lordess Xin Ren in a tumultuous political landscape, and is determined to overcome fate and make her enemies pay, even when confronting a revelation about Crow's true allegiance.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
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[2024]
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English
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
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"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
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"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
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St. Martin's Press
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2024.
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English
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"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
8) Trajectory
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2024.
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English
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
9) Blood & fury
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2024.
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English
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Darling Seabreak grapples with her destiny to reunite fractured houses and bring peace, while Talon Goldhoard, still in love with Darling, navigates a war instigated by his family, as they both face the challenge of saving the kingdom amidst dark forces and ancient magic.
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Thomas Nelson
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[2024]
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English
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"Based on real accounts of Britain's Land Girls and the Forgotten Blitz, The British Booksellers highlights the courageous choices we must make to live, love, and--in the face of all that tests us--fight for what matters most"--
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Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"During World War II, Catherine Duquette and Maggie McCleod come from different worlds but are thrown together on a USO variety show touring North Africa. While they each have secret reasons for accepting the job, neither anticipates the danger and intrigue they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines."--
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Avon, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the City of Light, one woman will stand against darkness. Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminent, journalist Elodie Mitchell plans to return home to Chicago. But an unexpected invitation to a Josephine Baker show changes everything. Mistaken for the star, Elodie is whisked backstage, where she uncovers an underground resistance movement hidden beneath the glitz and glamour. Drawn into a whisper network of spies, Elodie accepts a perilous mission:...
13) The throne
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Europa Editions
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2024.
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English
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October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. But when Borgia asks Machiavelli to write his life story, their bond gains complexity and nuance: ultimately, they both aspire to everlasting fame and to achieve it, they need each other, for the one's sword can only rule in eternity via the pen of the other.
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Magpie Books
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2024.
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English
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June 1940. As World War Two rages, Daphne Devine remains in London, performing each night as assistant to stage magician Jonty Trevelyan, aka the Grand Mystique.Then the secret service call.For, aware of Hitler's belief in the occult, the war office has set up a hidden cohort to exploit this quirk in the enemy's chain of command.Daphne and Jonty find themselves far from the glitz and glamour of the theatre, deep inside the lower levels of Wormwood...
15) Furies: roman
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Actes sud
Pub. Date
août 2021.
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Français
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Les destins d'une jeune archéologue, dévoyée en trafiquante d'antiquités, et d'un pompier syrien, devenu fossoyeur, se heurtent à l'expérience de la guerre. Entre ce qu'elle déterre et ce qu'il ensevelit, il y a l'histoire d'un peuple qui se lève et qui a cru dans sa révolution. Variation contemporaine des "Oresties" , un premier roman au verbe poétique et puissant, qui aborde avec intelligence les désenchantements de l'histoire et "le...
16) Hui jin nü ren
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Zhong xin chu ban ji tuan gu fen you xian gong si
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2023.
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中文
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The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writers. Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly...
17) A rambling man
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...
18) An enemy like me
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Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"How does a man show his love - for country, for heritage, for family - during a war that sets the three at odds? What sets in motion the necessity to choose one over the other? How will this choice change everything and everyone he loves? Jacob Miller, a first-generation American, grew up in New Berlin, a small German immigrant town in Ohio where he endured the Great Depression, met his wife, and started a family. Though his early years were not...
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Rosarium
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The distant future. Humanity is ruled by the godlike Dawn and her Triangulan allies. Her Golden Swarm keeps the garden world of Prithvi safe. Her nephew's Red Fleet secures the rest of the Nine Worlds. In the depths of the system, her regents-the Charioteer of Daitya, and the Huntress of Himenduh-bolster her authority with their own fleets, their own armies, and their own power. So it has been for three thousand years. But, of course, nothing lasts...
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Izdatelʹstvo "Ėksmo"
Pub. Date
2024.
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Russian
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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished hunter saves a young Japanese officer from a tiger, linking their fates. This encounter sparks a half-century saga. Jade, sold to a courtesan school, and JungHo, an orphan boy in Seoul, form a deep bond. As they grow, JungHo joins the independence movement, while Jade becomes a renowned performer with a noble suitor. Their intertwined fates explore themes of love, war, and redemption...
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