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"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal Claxton is a guy worth rooting for, and the gang who aid him in solving the complex and dangerous mystery involved are a fun bunch to follow. If you're not familiar with these gems out of Oregon, now's the perfect time to give Warren Easely and Cal Claxton...
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The Louisiana Purchase is one of the most important moments in United States history. Everything changed after April 30, 1803, when France agreed to sell the vast Louisiana Territory to the U.S. for a bargain price. The size of the country instantly doubled, and America's frontier expanded westward.
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The first moon landing is one of the most important moments in United States history. Everything changed after July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 touched down on the moon's surface and allowed people to set foot where no one had ever been before. On this exciting day, American astronauts won the Space Race and inspired future space explorers.
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A year-end tradition at St. Barbara's College Oxford ends in the death of a controversial professor. Royce Sheridan had enemies-but which one killed him? A weekend at a stately home may enable Veronica and Claire to uncover the culprit, but as a snowstorm engulfs the house and the body count rises, they may find more than they bargain for.
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The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter, a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.
As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed, which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that...
6) Lucky Charm
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In the silent film era, deaf actor Gilbert Wilton's handsome and expressive face is all he needs to be a star. As talkies start taking over the film industry, though, Gilbert's long-time partner and director leaves him. At the apex of heartbreak and a career going up in flames, Gilbert returns home one night to find his house being burgled--by his childhood best friend.Even after decades apart, Quill Phillips is as untrustworthy (and attractive) as...
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The 9/11 attacks make up one of the most important moments in United States history. Everything changed after September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked airplanes and crashed them into important buildings in the United States. Thousands of Americans died. The tragic day brought the country together and made people promise, "We will never forget."
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A truth buried for over forty years.
A love that lasted a lifetime.
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life.
Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it's finally time to go back to where her story began...
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Lives and events intertwine during the Great War.On the Western Front, the Honour of Graymere is at stake when the wounded and delirious Lord Dalton mistakes a nurse for his beloved Patricia.The Fortunes of Falworth take unexpected turns during World War I, when Grace Lewis and Andrew MacDonald contend with love, war, and treasonous thieves.
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Oy Mame! Oy Mame! is the story of Holocaust survivor Abraham Gutreiman and is based on his oral recollections captured during a series of video interviews when he was 90 years old. It includes many stories that he told multiple times over the years to everyone he came across. This time, knowing his end was near, he intended they should be recorded for future generations. The final chapters of this book were recorded later and continue his experiences...
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Now including an excerpt from THE DEVIL'S MERCEDES: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler's Limousine in America by Robert Klara. Coming March 2017.
Critically acclaimed author Robert Klara leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the Truman administration's controversial rebuilding of the White House.
In 1948, President Harry Truman, enjoying a bath on the White House's second floor, almost plunged...
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Twenty-four-year-old Violet wants one thing: to hide from life after her husband's death left her reeling. But life has other ideas. Well, life and a certain seven-year-old neighbor.
Violet moves to Magnolia Avenue, a forgotten street in a forgotten neighborhood filled with forgotten mobile homes. It looks like the perfect place to retreat and lick her wounds. But it's not long before her young neighbor, Arabella, enlists her in the rescue of the...
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Why did people believe all gangster bosses had to be male?In 1925, Sydney, Australia was a beautiful, young, thriving city.By night, the seedy underbelly came to life.The lady in charge of part of that underbelly, known as the Queen of King's Cross, was Angeline Dumont.No one threatened the lady and lived.No one dared to harm those she considered family...Not if they valued their life.Sam was the King of Woolloomooloo, a position he inherited, and...
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A museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent ex-con and an even more recent widow. How many times do we have to pay for our mistakes before life sends us a reprieve?Juliet Van Allen, museum administrator, discovers that her artist husband is having an affair with another woman. Elmer Vartanian, recently released from prison for a museum robbery, is coerced into helping scout her museum for a heist by a gang that has kidnapped his daughter....
15) Undeceived
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"...if I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me?"-Pride & Prejudice, Chapter 40 Elizabeth Bennet, a rookie counterintelligence officer, lands an intriguing first assignment-investigating the CIA's legendary William Darcy, who is suspected of being a double agent.Darcy's charmed existence seems at an end as he fights for his career and struggles against his love for the young woman he doesn't know is watching...
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Fin des années trente, les bruits de bottes se font entendre. Dans le petit village de Saint-Cassien, Victor et Mariette unissent leurs destinées. 1940, l'armée allemande envahit la Belgique. Victor est fait prisonnier et envoyé́ dans un camp. Il restera en Allemagne jusqu'à la fin du conflit.
Comment se retrouver après cinq ans ? Se reconnaît-on alors que l'autre a tellement changé au fil des évènements ? Un enfant va naître, une fille,...
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Holocaust survivor HENRY MELNICK was born in Lodz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, he was sent to do slave labour in the Nowy Sacz and Tarnow Ghettos and at Szebnie camp. He was then transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen death camps. When his parents were murdered in the Belzec death camp, he became the sole survivor of his entire family.After liberation, Henry volunteered for the Israeli...
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Venise fut son cerveau et son poumon économique. Mais son identité est balkanique. La mer Adriatique oscille entre les deux Europe qu'elle a toujours reliées, semant ses îles comme un chapelet entre ses rives occidentale et orientale.
Fille de Rome, elle a toujours regardé vers l'est et porté ses navigateurs vers la Grèce, mais aussi vers l'Afrique, la Turquie et le monde arabe. À Trieste, les fantmes de l'Autriche-Hongrie et de l'ex-Yougoslavie...
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The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaborators
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situation-even allied themselves with their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi...
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Willie Harris is an American icon. Born into a Black sharecropping family, he was raised picking cotton on a plantation in Mississippi in the 1950s, though his childhood sounds more like a tale from the 1850s. He played Division I college basketball, served in the U.S. Air Force, and as one of the leaders of the Black Stuntmen's Association in the 1970s, he helped wage a battle against racism in Hollywood that changed the film industry. He and his...
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