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In post-Civil War Missouri, quiet twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Mayfield marries the brilliant and eccentric scientist Andrew Early. The couple eventually make their way by train to their new life in California where their marriage grows troubled as Margaret gradually comes to realize she has married a madman.
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"Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 15
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When Stella Suberman wrote her first memoir, “The Jew Store”, at the age of seventy-six, she was widely praised for shedding light on a forgotten piece of American history-Jewish life in the rural South. In her new memoir, Suberman reveals yet another overlooked aspect of America's past-the domestic side of war.
Her story begins in the Miami Beach she grew up in, when hotel signs boasted "Always a View, Never a Jew" and where a passenger ship...
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After CIA agent Kelley Chandler's overseas intelligence mission goes awry, he returns home on life support with one foot placed preemptively in a body bag. As the CIA, spear-headed by foul-mouthed genius Hotchkiss, are destined to pull the plug on Kelley, it is up to his wife, Tess, to uncover the truth of what really happened.
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Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 1
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In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys, a smart cavalry regiment, have been dying violently, one a year and each in March. The only link between them is the bunch of small red roses that mysteriously appears on the women's graves on the anniversary of their deaths. Detective and World War I hero Joe Sandilands is asked discreetly to investigate. It becomes clear to him that the deaths are indeed connected and...
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Joe Sandilands murder mystery volume 01
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2002.
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"After a half a decade in which the wife of an officer in the Bengal Grays has died violently each March, investigators find themselves probing the bizarre coincidences that link the deaths as they pursue a dangerous serial killer."--from NoveList.
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[2022]
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"Nine months after the massacre at Custer's Last Stand, Elizabeth Custer scheduled a reunion with the widows of the Little Big Horn. On June 25, 1887, the women met in Monroe, Michigan, to reflect on the events leading up to the battle, remember the loved ones that were killed, and share how they have been able to go on. The widows got together every year for more than twenty years. In between reunions they corresponded with each other, exchanged...
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