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"In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as "Phillippe" wastes away deep inside...
3) The hunted
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Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex Konevitch and his wife escape Russia to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country-facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader,...
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[2021]
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Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However,...
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World's scariest legends volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment...
9) Trouble
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[2011]
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In "Midnight Rainbow," a socialite, taken captive in the middle of a conspiracy of international proportions, finds hope in a government agent, and in "Diamond Bay," a young woman risks her own life to save a man she hardly knows.
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2023.
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
11) Lawless revealed
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Incursion volume 4
Pub. Date
2019
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It’s easy to be lulled into thinking all is right with the world. Soldiers invaded our town with no warning. Breaking down doors, they dragged us out of our homes and held us against our will. “Haters” they spat at us. Haters to them meant Christians – we were imprisoned for our faith. I, along with 600 others, was given the choice to renounce my beliefs or face internment.The Watchmen of our town stood against the invaders and freed us. Still...
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English history novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
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"To the Tower Born is a lively tale, told with a natural novelist's eye for drama and vivid characterization." - --Carolly Erickson, author of The Girl From Botany Bay
"Spirited, colorful . . . brims with page-turning drama." - Publishers Weekly
13) Bog child
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
14) Eyes open
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2024.
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Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
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Incursion volume 6
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eremiah 46:14b - …WAKE UP! BE PREPARED! WAR’S COMING! Tears run down my cheeks. “We Americans have no clue how to stand against persecution. We’ve watched it happen in other countries but never dreamed it could happen here.”“Rose, honey, we have the same Bible as those believers who continue to face all manner of torment and death,” Seth searches my eyes before placing a kiss on my shaking hand, “all at the hands of authorities who...
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Incursion volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
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The people of Singing Springs have repelled two invasions intent on destroying voices of dissent. Subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, they will be judged either as perpetrators of sedition and sentenced to life in prison or found a community who acted legally to defend their civil rights against the brutish violation they endured.
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Inspector Pekkala volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
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A decade after the execution of Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family, the Soviet state offers Pekkala, the Tsar's former right-hand man who is now a prisoner living a harsh existence, a chance to win his freedom in exchange for catching the Romanovs' killers and locating the royal child that is rumored to have survived the execution.
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Outlaw Road volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Injured in the coup to overthrow the Moquoian monarchy, Tamsin, accompanied by Iano, retreat to a safe house, where they await the return of Lark and Veran. Determined to uncover the traitor in the court, they devise a plan to confront the new palace ashoki, Kimela. Imperiled by wilderness and their own tenuous alliances, Lark, Tamsin, and Veran each face massive risks to uncover the truth. But even if they find it, will their combined forces be...
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2010.
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Jack Savage, a former Royal Marine Commando, is approached by shipping magnate Dimitri Aleko to mastermind a breakout from the island prison of Sinos. Savage will do anything for money until he falls in love with a beautiful woman who becomes a pawn in Aleko's deadly game of international intrigue.