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Those Who Dare

by Phil Ward

Published: 2010-08-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The first in a series of meticulously researched World War II novels about hit-and-run raids against Hitler's war machine by British forces - under the command of a U.S. soldier - "Those Who Dare" is sure to appeal to avid military fiction fans. By May 1940, panzer divisions had decimated Belgium and...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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Those Who Save Us

by Jenna Blum

Published: 2005-05-02

Kindle Edition: 482 pages

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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograp...

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Those Who Save Us (Kennebec Large Print Superior Collection)

by Jenna Blum

Published: 2009-12-01

Paperback: 681 pages

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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograp...

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Thou Shalt Kill

by Daniel Blake

Published: 2011-04-26

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Hardened Pittsburgh homicide detective, Franco Patrese, is a man who has lost his belief in humanity, and the latest serial killer stalking his town on a mission to kill according to the ten commandments  isn?t quite restoring his faith. Patrese knows that this kind of vigilante justice is the most...

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Thoughtless

by S.C. Stephens

Published: 2011-06-16

Paperback: 364 pages

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For almost two years now, Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen...

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A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

Published: 1996-09-30

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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"BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART."--Chicago Sun-TimesWhen Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense--a reward for...

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A Thousand Acres: A Novel

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2011-01-05

Kindle Edition: 385 pages

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This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and ...

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

by David Mitchell

Published: 2010-06-29

Hardcover: 496 pages

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In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply ?a genius.? Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian's claim that ?each of his books...

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A Thousand Autumns: Part of the De Opresso Liber Series

by Dr. Charles C. Southerland Jr.

Published: 2010-02-11

Paperback: 478 pages

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"A Thousand Autumns" is part of an engraving, taken from a dedicatory monument located in Arlington National cemetery. It tells the story of a valiant struggle during the "Secret War in Laos" lost in the annals of Vietnam history.

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Thousand Cranes

by Yasunari Kawabata

Published: 1996-11-26

Paperback: 147 pages

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s form...