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English
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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English
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Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle.
4) Silver cross
Author
Series
Nick Journey novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
5) My cold war
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
8) Shell game
Author
Series
Professor Simon Shaw mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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English
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Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove, missing since the end of the war, one that Gordon has always claimed is full of 'secrets you can't find anywhere else, live ammunition.'
11) The ice soldier
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Series
Publisher
John Daniel & Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer finds her relaxing plans derailed when she inherits an 1890 diary that could reveal some astonishing long-kept secrets about artist Winslow Homer and his time spent in her small Maine town.
13) Fifth business
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English
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"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross, and destined to be caught in a no-man's-land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious influence on those around him."--Page 4 of cover.
14) Cold glory
Author
Series
Nick Journey novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the first page of a shocking Civil War-era document is unearthed in Oklahoma, history professor Nick Journey is called in to evaluate the find--and is promptly attacked by two men armed with Special Forces weapons. Federal agent Meg Tolman's investigation into Journey's attack uncovers more troubling questions than answers. She soon finds herself joining Journey's cross-country quest to recover and protect the missing pages. A shadowy group,...
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