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Historical Fiction August 2018
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In early 1943, Magda Ritter’s parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat where she learns that she will be one of several young women tasting the Führer’s food. Although terrified at first, Magda gradually becomes used to her dangerous occupation—though she knows better than to voice her misgivings about the war. But her love for a conspirator within the SS, and her growing awareness of the Reich’s atrocities, draw Magda into a plot that will test her wits and loyalty in a quest for safety, freedom, and ultimately, vengeance.
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This thrilling tale is based on the real life of John Scobell, one of the first black spies in our nation's intelligence service during the Civil War. As John collects secrets in northern Virginia for the Northern cause, he has no idea that the wife he left behind in Richmond has a secret of her own. She too has become a spy in the heart of the Confederacy, and she uncovers information about Rebel submarines that could change the course of the war. John Scobell works alongside the network of black spies active throughout the South, the Lincoln Legal Loyal League. But John and Peg's world unravels when someone begins picking off agents, one by one and suddenly the war becomes not just a mission, but a fight just to survive.
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The son of a proud naval dynasty, Gabriel Hawkins was born to command the sea, until he leaves the Royal Navy in disgrace and is disowned by his family. As captain of his own ship, he’s earned his living in ways both legal and illegal, and his experience makes him the best choice to ransom an aristocratic beauty captured by Barbary pirates. Having avoided the traps of convention and marriage, Lady Aurora Lawrence is horrified by the prospect of spending her life as a harem slave. Her only hope of escape is Gabriel, who will do anything to free Rory. Together they undertake a dangerous mission through troubled waters—and encounter another kind of danger as attraction burns hot within the close confines of his ship. But even if they endure the perils of the sea and enemy lands, can their love survive a return to England, where the distance between a disgraced captain and an earl’s daughter is wider than the ocean?
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Eagle & Crane by Suzanne RindellLouis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada -- Eagle and Crane -- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil flying act that traverses Depression-era California. Although Louis and Harry are friends, Thorn's family believes that the Yamadas stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, one of Shaw's planes mysteriously crashes with two victims inside, whom authorities believe are Harry and his father, Kenichi, who had escaped from a Japanese internment camp. The case seems open and hut, but to one FBI agent, the details don't add up. An investigation ensues into what really happened to cause the plane crash, who died in the plane, and why no one involved seems willing to tell the truth. Eagle and Crane is a rare novel that tells a gripping story as it explores a terrible era of American history.
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Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is a respected and driven entrepreneur who yearns for more in life, and when he travels to Throgmorton Hall in Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers a passionate woman who will challenge his rigid self-control, Felicia Throgmorton. Felicia is desperate to hold together what’s left of her father's estate after he left it in ruins because of many failed inventions, which her brother has continued working on after his death. When Rand arrives at Throgmorton Hall, he discovers that the invention on which he’s staked his reputation has exploded, the inventor is not who he expected and a fiercely intelligent woman now holds the key to his future success. Rand and Felicia are forced to act together against ruthless foes to protect everything they hold dear.
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In 1945 following World War II, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem determined to protect, and educate Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
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