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Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 1
Language
English
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sam Eastland's Shadow Pass.
Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished...
Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished...
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Series
A Tudor novel volume 2
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English
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A tale inspired by the life of Lady Jane Gray's younger sister, Katherine, interweaves the tragic story of her imprisonment in the Tower of London with the fates of three other innocent political prisoners including Kate Plantagenet and boy princes Edward and Richard.
4) Bog child
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles, " eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran...
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English
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Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
Author
Series
English history novels volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Having retired to the French Rivera in 1935, former intelligence operative Tom Nash finds his respite broken when someone tries to kill him in his sleep, and must pretend to live the normal life of a retiree as he tries to flush out those who want him dead.
13) The skull mantra
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur paperback edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Chinese official is murdered in a slave camp in Tibet. One of the prisoners, a disgraced Chinese prosecutor, is ordered to write a report accusing a Buddhist monk. He discovers the real culprits are Chinese officials and American miners, but the truth may hurt the camp more than a lie.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
[Larger print edition].
Physical Desc
250 pages (larger print) ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brianna Whitman's job is to reacclimate Sheikh Riyaz al Hadid to palace life and prepare him for his long-arranged marriage after years of him being held as a political prisoner. But the forbidden attraction that flames between them makes her want to cast her innocence to the desert winds.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Injured in an attempt to escape a troop of dragoons, he is arrested and held in a French gaol for questioning and probable execution. In an effort to save her beloved brother, Elspeth turns first to his best friend...
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry Clifton uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles Barrington works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
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