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Book cover for "The fifth column".
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man, Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the...
Book cover for "The fifth column and four stories of the Spanish Civil War".
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The three-act play and the hitherto uncollected stories contained in this book represent the first literary fruits of the active months (1937-1939) Ernest Hemingway spent in Spain covering the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and helping to film battle scenes for the motion picture The Spanish Earth. He conveys the feverish life in Madrid under siege: the daily horrors of the Rebel bombardment, the incongruous...
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Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Fifth Column".
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Publisher:
Rupture LDN
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Book cover for "The short stories of Ernest Hemingway".
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Book cover for "The German Fifth Column in the Second World War".
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Publisher:
Lucknow Books
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Originally published in 1956, "this book mainly confines itself to Fifth Column work developed by Germans. Naturally I am aware that there were other Fifth Columns which moved forward in the international offensive of national socialism. Hitler found accomplices in every country. The time is not yet ripe, however, to give an accurate description of the activities of those multifarious 'native' Fifth Columns. There are no good monographs extant, reliable...
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
1995
Lexile measure:
1390L
Language:
English
Book cover for "Tales from a not-so-smart Miss Know-It-All".
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Series:
Dork diaries volume 5
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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When Miss Know-It-All's inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.
Book cover for "The snows of Kilimanjaro, and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
820L
Language:
English
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The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.
Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the...
Book cover for "The red badge of courage, and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
900L
Language:
English
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During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time-so groundbreaking that critics consider it to be the first work of modern American fiction. Although Crane never witnessed warfare, The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic...
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"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney fans have never seen him quite like this. Andy Rooney is plain frustrated by what's going on in America and the world. Why can't Americans — let alone our president — speak English anymore?...
Book cover for "The plot to destroy democracy".
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"In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election--and attempted to bring about the fall of NATO, the European...
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
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"World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans he requests the newlywed Paddy's help. She jumps at the chance to work as an agent...
Book cover for "The Ernest Hemingway audio collection".
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Publisher:
Harper Collins
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English

17. Icefall

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Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Language:
English
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"The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
Book cover for "The Seraphim Sequence".
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Publisher:
Anomaly Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Mind control: coming to a government near you. The Fifth Column's latest technology, Project Seraphim, is almost ready. Once active, they can force anyone in the United States to feel and do anything, on command. And then, the world. Can Damien, Jay and Sophia stop it in time? Or, will they fall under its spell?
Book cover for "Cambodia's curse".
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Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Language:
English
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Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.