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Unknown rider (Battle Born #1)
Par Jack Stewart. 2023
After a Navy pilot inexplicably loses control of his stealth fighter, he stumbles upon a global conspiracy, and embarks on…
a thrilling chase filled with espionage and betrayal. "A high-octane and adrenaline-powered thriller... Strap in and hold on!" – Jack Carr, Former Navy SEAL sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series TOP GUN instructor Colt Bancroft has just catapulted off the USS Abraham Lincoln, his F-35C Joint Strike Fighter trailing blue and yellow flame as he climbs into the night sky off the California coast. When he is sent to investigate a series of mysterious lights floating dangerously close to his aircraft carrier, disaster strikes. His jet becomes unresponsive as it rolls inverted and enters a nosedive aimed right at the aircraft carrier's unsuspecting escort cruiser... What follows is a tale of heroism and betrayal, spycraft and suspense, and aerial combat against an unexpected adversary. To clear his name and unmask a traitor, Colt must survive a dangerous game of spy-vs-spy, where trusting the wrong person could cost him his life. To stop the enemy from hitting their ultimate target, Colt must use every ounce of his skill and training...and uncover the identity of the UNKNOWN RIDER. From author Jack Stewart, a former US Navy Top Gun instructor pilot, comes an exhilarating military thriller that's packed with high-octane action and puts the reader behind the controls of a modern jet fighter. Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown. _____________________ Praise for Unknown Rider: Strongly evocative of classic Clancy...Intensely paced and skillfully plotted. —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man "A deeply authentic immersion into the heart and soul of the modern fighter pilot. I could not put it down." —David McCloskey, author of Moscow X "A must read for military thriller enthusiasts—the Battle Born series is storytelling in afterburner!" —Ward Larsen, USA Today bestselling author of Deep Fake "Leaves readers breathless by the end and hungry for the next book!" —Taylor Moore, author of Firestorm Authentic, fast, and utterly propulsive, Stewart's debut is just incredible." —Connor Sullivan, author of Wolf TrapThe last year of the war
Par Susan Meissner. 2019
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a…
German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her. The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve always been is called into questionThe lost girls of paris
Par Pam Jenoff. 2019
Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase…
tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances. Don't miss Pam Jenoff's new novel, Code Name Sapphire , a riveting tale of bravery and resistance during World War II. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: The Woman with the Blue Star The Orphan's Tale The Ambassador's Daughter The Diplomat's Wife The Kommandant's Girl The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Winter GuestThe maniac
Par Benjamin Labatut. 2023
Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post , The New York Public Library, and Publishers Weekly •…
a national bestseller • a New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thrilling originality. The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty." — The Washington Post "Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting." — Wall Street Journal From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times ’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC , Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake. The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control. A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a speciesThe last lifeboat
Par Hazel Gaynor. 2023
A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! Inspired by a remarkable true story,…
a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent : Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she’d long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher—to help evacuate Britain’s children overseas. 1940, London : Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily’s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other—one on land, the other at sea—will quickly become one another’s very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwinedLa fille du maître brasseur (Romans Terres de France)
Par Marie-Paul Armand. 2021
Inachevé, ce roman décrit le quotidien d'un village de la région de Douai, dans le Nord, à la fin des…
années 1930, à travers le regard de Marianne, 11 ans. Fille du maître brasseur et orpheline de mère, elle souffre de la complicité qui unit son frère à son père, soudés par la passion de leur métier. La guerre l'oblige à partir dans la baie de Somme, un territoire non occupé.Le porteur de joie (Terre de poche)
Par Maurice Chalayer. 2022
Joseph passe une enfance heureuse entouré d'une famille aimante même si son père, Marius, et Rose, sa grand-mère, se déchirent…
au sujet de la politique. L'enfant n'a qu'une passion, la course, et rêve de devenir champion olympique. Avec ses deux amis, Rachel, la fille du maire, et Adrien, le fils du boucher, il s'entraîne pendant des heures. Mais la guerre est déclarée, bouleversant son destin.The three lives of alix st. pierre
Par Natasha Lester. 2023
A New York Times bestselling author delivers a lavish, unforgettable story of an orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon…
in Paris. Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills—persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure—catch the attention of the U.S. government and she finds herself with an even bigger assignment: sent to Switzerland as a spy. Soon Alix is on the precipice of something big, very big. But how far can she trust her German informant...? After an Allied victory that didn't come nearly soon enough, Alix moves to Paris, ready to immerse herself in a new position as director of publicity for the yet-to-be-launched House of Dior. In the glamorous halls of the French fashion house, she can nearly forget everything she lost and the dangerous secret she carries. But when a figure from the war reappears and threatens to destroy her future, Alix realizes that only she can right the wrongs of the past ...and finally find justiceCode name sapphire
Par Pam Jenoff. 2023
"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test in the most…
unimaginable of circumstances." –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris 1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily's family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves? Inspired by incredible true stories of courage and sacrifice, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful novel about love, family and the unshakable resilience of women in even the hardest of timesJosephine Baker's last dance: a novel
Par Sherry Jones. 2018
In the 1920s, an African American like Josephine Baker could find more freedom in France than in the United States.…
In Paris she could be an actress, singer, dancer, Civil Rights activist, member of the French Resistance during WWII, and a woman dedicated to erasing prejudice and creating a more equitable world. Adult. UnratedSee you at the bar (Harry Gilmour novel #05)
Par David Black. 2019
Harry Gilmour is captain of the submarine HMS Scourge, patrolling the Mediterranean during world war two. With the shadow of…
his former commander Bonalleck and self-doubt chipping at his confidence, Harry fights his own internal battle to maintain effective command of his boat and crew. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Violence and some strong languageDog soldiers: a novel
Par Robert Stone. 1987
During the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist thinks he'll find action and profit by getting involved…
in a big-time drug deal. A fightening, intense novel that captures the underground mood of America in the 1970'sEcos
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"In 1915 Beata Wittgenstein, eldest daughter of an affluent German Jewish family, runs off to Switzerland to marry Antoine de…
Vallerand, a young French Catholic officer. But her newfound happiness and the future of her children are threatened by war." -- Provided by NLSWhen the nightingale sings
Par Suzanne Kelman. 2021
"1937, Europe and America. Based on a true story, this powerful novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how…
two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy Morgan finishes her studies in Physics at Cambridge University, it is with dreams of changing the world for the better. Meanwhile, a beautiful, young Jewish woman decides to flee her beloved Austria, changing her name to Hedy Lamarr, and risking everything to get to America, as far away from the Nazi threat as possible. A powerful friendship is formed when the two women meet in pre-war London-with Judy's passion for science a perfect match for Hedy's brilliant talent for invention. So when the world is gripped by a war that nobody could have imagined in their worst nightmares, both Hedy and Judy know they must act now. As their lives repeatedly collide, in Cambridge, California, Pearl Harbor and beyond-throwing both their lives into danger and tragedy-Judy and Hedy both find themselves seeking ways to end the war. But neither of them will know that one of them is on a path of tragedy. A path that could change the outcome of the war, but also threaten their friendship forever..." -- Provided by publisherThe cabin book: or, National characteristics
Par Charles Sealsfield. 1852
Originally published in German in 1841, this novel, in part about Texas life in the 1830's, became a best-seller. It…
paints Texans as they have ever since liked to see themselves: bigger than life, better than most other people, mavericks, uncompromising about their freedom and dignity, sometimes cheats and tricksters, and courageous if not downright foolhardy. Adult33 D.C: una novela (A.D #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2016
"Maviah, a slave in Arabia, meets the prophet Yeshua and takes his teachings to heart. She gathers a large following…
of fellow outcasts and travels around Arabia, spreading what she learned from Yeshua. When what she has built is threatened, she goes to find him." -- Provided by NLS30 D.C: una novela (A.D #01)
Par Ted Dekker. 2015
"Maviah, daughter of a Bedouin sheik, is sent home from Egypt in disgrace when she becomes pregnant. After raiders kill…
her son and capture her father, she travels to seek an audience with King Herod. On her travels, she meets a man called Yeshua." -- Provided by NLSUne petite chance (Chapitre)
Par Marjolijn Hof. 2008
"Le père de Lili est médecin pour une O.N.G et part très souvent dans des pays en guerre. Lili vit…
très mal ses absences et s'inquiète des dangers qu'il court. Pour conjurer le mauvais sort et calmer ses angoisses, elle décide de s'en remettre aux probabilités : elle aura moins de chances de perdre son père si elle connaît d'autres deuils autour d'elle. Donc, elle tente de faire mourir sa souris, puis son chien. Mais son père est déclaré disparu, et Lili se sent de plus en plus mal." -- 4e de couvUnspeakable things
Par Kathleen Spivack. 2016
Life is a test of courage and silence, especially for refugees from Hitler's Europe. For Anna and her cousin, Herbert,…
New York gives opportunity, but not safety from the memories of the life they had before. Adult. UnratedWolf pass: a novel
Par Steve Thayer. 2003
Wrongfully labeled a chief suspect after a shooting by a long-range sniper, deputy sheriff and former wartime army ranger P.A.…
Pennington realizes an old nemesis, a Nazi colonel, has returned. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence