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1) Walls
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English
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"In this edge-of-your-seat novel packed with historical photographs, two cousins divided by the Cold War must work together or risk loosing everything. Berlin, 1961. Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where US soldiers like his dad hold a tiny outpost of democracy against Communist Russia and occupied East Germany. Drew's cousin Matthias has grown up across the city's border on streets ruled by secret police and anti-American propaganda. From enemy...
2) Bluebird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
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2023.
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English
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"A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish...
4) Atomic love
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English
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"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
5) Topaz
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English
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A novel of international diplomacy and intrigue set in various locales around the world. "Taking off from the Cuban missile crisis, the story is a . . . [combination] of Russian espionage, the dedication of a French intelligence officer, and the devotion of the women in his life . . . Apparently the main point in the who thing [is] the revelation of the direct line of Communist agency has to the top level in France. This is the secret of 'Topaz.'"...
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