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Language
English
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After surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nedermann, starting a new life in London with her husband, a British diplomat, once again becomes trapped in a web of intrigue and betrayal when Communists infiltrate British Intelligence and the traitor is linked to her past.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, based on the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations. 1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace. Shy and ill at ease with the societal obligations of diplomats’ wives, Grace is an outsider in a city beginning...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapochief Rudolf Diels.
In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha....
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Series
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In 1878 Paris, Police Commissioner "Papa" Gauche must solve a brutal murder. Lord Littleby has been found at home with his head bashed in, surrounded by the bodies of seven servants and two children who all seem to have died from morphine poisoning. The only clue Gauche has to go on is a gold key in the shape of a whale. This key gains entrance to a luxury liner, the Leviathan, whose maiden voyage is to India. Gauche embarks, and finds among the passengers--all...
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Series
Ballantyne novels volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The banks of the Nile are torn by an unprecedented war during which a charismatic new religious leader traps hundreds of people in the capital city of Khartoum.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Documents the contributions of American-born Englishman Robert Bunch to negotiating fragile relations between the Confederate South and Britain while hiding his secret work as a determined abolitionist. By the author of Securing the City.
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