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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
Author
Series
Tiger at midnight volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
449 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
Romantic intrigue and electric action fill the gripping sequel to The Tiger at Midnight. A stolen throne. A lost princess. A rescue mission to take back what's theirs. For Kunal and Esha, finally working together as rebels, the upcoming Sun Mela provides the perfect guise for infiltrating King Vardaan's vicious court. Kunal returns to his role as dedicated soldier, while Esha uses her new role as adviser to Prince Harun to seek allies for their rebel...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The riveting and tension-filled story of a small group of conspirators who plotted relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. Behind the front lines of World War II, a clandestine war within a war was being waged in Nazi Germany. As the "Final Solution" unfolded and fascism swept across Europe, a network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and a smattering of civilians were doing everything in their power to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
476 pages
Description
Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule. Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of...
Author
Series
Hussite trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
634 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
In fifteenth-century war-riddled Bohemia, Reynevan, on the run from both human and mystical enemies, must set aside his history as a peaceful healer and idealist and play the brutal role of Hussite spy to survive as the world around him is forever changed.
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Una caja de herramientas basada en la investigacion para cualquiera que quiera crear un mundo con mas justicia, creatividad e innovacion.
A research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and innovation.
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Description
"In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei-one of the world's most famous artists and activists-tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as "the most important artist working today" by the Financial Times and as "an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir...
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
" A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could. The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion in one of the key chapters of the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely...
11) A very expensive poison: the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story--complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko's murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The choie is simple for Arkady Renko: plunge into the black and limitless Siberian forest in search of a woman who seems to have scorned him or stay in Moscow working as a senior investigator for the office of the prosecution. Tatiana Petrovna, a well-known journalist, had set out to write an exposé on the oligarchs of Siberia, but she has not returned. Arkady pursues her into Siberia, where he learns that she has fallen under the spell of Mikhail...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency's involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War--to a time when literature had the power to stir the world."--www.Amazon.com.
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