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Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

Published: 2012-05-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Oct. 11th, 1943?A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn’t stand a chan...

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Code of Darkness

by Chris Lindberg

Published: 2011-08-17

Paperback: 316 pages

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When a routine bank robbery takes an unexpected turn, veteran Chicago Police officer Larry Parker witnesses a heroic act by a mysterious intervener. But seconds later the Samaritan disappears, leaving Larry only with unanswered questions. Suddenly, vigilante activity begins popping up all over the city...

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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

by Elijah Anderson

Published: 2000-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.?Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the...

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The Code of the Woosters

by P. G. Wodehouse

Published: 2000-05-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.Fans devoted to the master of comic fic...

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Code Orange (Readers Circle)

by Caroline B. Cooney

Published: 2007-05-08

Mass Market Paperback: 200 pages

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Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy?he didn?t worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report.Mitty d...

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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 320 pages

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The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid hi...

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Codex

by Lev Grossman

Published: 2005-05-02

Paperback: 348 pages

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About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and...

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The Codex

by Douglas Preston

Published: 2005-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 412 pages

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"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along w...

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Coffee And Kung Fu

by Karen Brichoux

Published: 2003-06-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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Twenty-six-year-old Nicci Bradford doesn't exactly love her job fixing the grammar in company brochures, or living in Boston, or going on awkward fix-ups with men she barely knows. What she does love is Kung Fu movies...especially the ones starring Jackie Chan. Their timeless and inspired wisdom offers...

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The Coffee Trader: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by David Liss

Published: 2004-02-03

Paperback: 402 pages

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Amsterdam, 1659: On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly ...