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- In the shadow of lightning / by McClellan, Brian,1986-author.;
- "From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage, comes In the Shadow of Lightning, a brand-new epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource-and it's running out. Demir Grappo is an outcast-he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out. Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it."--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Families; Imaginary wars and battles; Kings and rulers; Magic; Murder; Outcasts;
- Our woman in Moscow [sound recording] : a novel / by Williams, Beatriz,author.; Barber, Nicola,1978-narrator.; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Nicola Barber and Cassandra Campbell.The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family's sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West's most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn't seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain. But the complex truth behind Iris's marriage defies Ruth's understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Spy fiction.; Cold War; Intelligence officers; Missing persons; Rescues; Twin sisters; Undercover operations;
- We were the lucky ones / by Hunter, Georgia,1978-author.;
- An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death by working endless hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an extraordinary will to survive and by the fear that they may never see each other again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. In a novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports readers from the jazz clubs of Paris to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to Krakow's most brutal prison and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment"--
- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jews; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish families; Jews, Polish; World War, 1939-1945;
- Sisters of the snake / by Nanua, Sarena.; Nanua, Sasha.;
- When a princess and a street thief discover they are twins separated at birth, they must switch places to find an all-powerful stone and prevent a deadly war from happening.LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Sisters; Twins; Identity (Psychology); Princesses; Thieves; Imaginary wars and battles;
- A darkness returns / by Feist, Raymond E.,author.;
- "As worlds collide ... Hatushaly, last scion of the Firemane dynasty; his beloved Hava, and their dubious friend Donte have been transported across space and time from their war-torn world of Garn to the relative peace of Midkemia. There, on Sorcerer's Isle, under the guidance of the great magician Magnus and his reincarnated father Pug, Hatu will explore and expand his unique magical abilities: for if Garn is to be saved, they will be needed. With the evil Pride Lords defeated, the Church of the One has risen to bring death and destruction to Hatu's home world. The kingdom of Ilcomen has fallen, and now the Church is sending forces to Marquensas, where Daylon Dumarch has declared himself king, and master swordsmith Declan Smith finds himself suddenly raised to the status of prince and war commander. But there are even greater menaces than the Church of the One waiting in the wings, beings from the Void, creatures born of Darkness ... "--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Good and evil; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Reincarnation; Time travel;
- This is how you lose the time war / by El-Mohtar, Amal,author.; Gladstone, Max,author.;
- Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them.
- Subjects: Fiction.; Science fiction.; Space and time; Imaginary wars and battles; Soldiers; Letters; Time travel;
- Long time coming / by Goddard, Robert.;
- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Art; Art; Ex-convicts; Uncles; World War, 1939-1945;
- © c2010., Bantam Press,
- The hunger of the gods / by Gwynne, John,1968-author.;
- "Lik-Rifa, the terrible dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest. Elvar and her fellow Battle-Grim have found the fabled land of Oskutred and its many treasures, but at great cost. Bound by a blood oath, they must rescue the child Bjarn from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, the Raven-Feeders. Yet the Battle-Grim do not stand alone, for they possess the raudskinna, a forbidden book of dark magic. And with it the power to resurrect the great wolf god Ulfrir, who seeks a deadly vengeance of his own ..."--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Good and evil; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Monsters; Soldiers;
- The 12th man [videorecording] / by Blokhus, Marie,actor.; Gullestad, Thomas,actor.; Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan,1977-actor.; Zwart, Harald,1965-film director.; Scream Factory (Firm),publisher.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.;
- Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus.Based on a true story, this gripping World War II drama from Norway focuses on Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad), a Norwegian resistance fighter who becomes the sole survivor of a 1943 sabotage mission when the other 11 members of his team are killed. Baalsrud's attempt to escape to Sweden forces him to cross a harsh frozen landscape while being pursued by a determined Gestapo officer (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers).14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; War films.; Baalsrud, Jan; Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei; Resistance movements, War; Survival; Escapes; World War, 1939-1945;
- For private home use only.
- The Dutch wife / by Keith, Ellen,author.;
- From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, this novel braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Secrecy;
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