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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
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When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
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As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring the SS...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
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This is the story of team leader Marcus Lutrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days,...
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"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Captured by the Confederate Army in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A.G. Hamilton are sent to infamous Libby Prison, where they resolve to escape tortuous conditions.
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"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
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Kurt Wallander mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
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When his daughter's father-in-law, legendary navy officer Hkåan von Enke, inexplicably disappears during a routine walk, Inspector Kurt Wallander personally spearheads the search. As he investigates, Wallander starts to uncover a conspiracy dating back to the Cold War, one which threatens to plunge all of Sweden into a scandal. However, Wallander's efforts are hampered when he begins to experience memory loss.
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[2016]
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"The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States...