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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2025]
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English
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"When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth. Berlin, 1943 : A group of high society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer's afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo. They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite : two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador's widow and a pioneering head mistress. What...
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Publisher:
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Describes the authors' personal involvement in the CIA investigation into a leak in Soviet asset intelligence, which led to the identification of Aldrich Ames as the "mole," and details his arrest and conviction on charges of treason.
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Publisher:
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA's large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial...
5. The inferno
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Description:
The first part of Dante's classic poem of faith follows the author with his guide Virgil through the circles of hell, describing the sinners and punishments witnessed there.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly...
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Language:
English
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Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she’s disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can’t help longing for home.
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Language:
English
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Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilizing of regimes. Witness history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Mao zhu xi yu lu, Quotations...
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Series:
Jigsaw files volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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PI Charlie Dodge knows what it's like to have something important disappear. His wife, Annie, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer's, causing her to remember little of the life she shared with her husband. Charlie has devoted his career to saving what he can-missing people, threatened lives. But when prominent Denver multimillionaire Carter Dunleavy vanishes without a trace, Charlie and his assistant, Wyrick, discover missing doesn't always mean gone....
10. Infidel
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Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
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The second in the Lost Books series, a YA spin-off of the New York Times bestselling Circle series, Infidel reveals a truth to one of the four chosen ones that will change the course of history. From Chosen to Traitor? After being stretched to their limits, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits-Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal-face new dangers on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated as a hero, Johnis's world...
11. I, Judas
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Language:
English
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From a #1 New York Times-bestselling author: The story of Judas Iscariot and the stunning betrayal that changed the course of history. One of the great dramas of the biblical era is brought to thrilling new life in this epic novel told from the unique perspective of Judas himself. This is the story of Judas the myth, condemned by Dante to the most terrifying circle of Hell. Judas the man, the son of wealth and power who fought to suppress the lusts...
12. Trust no one
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Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When seven members of their family were kidnapped, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, got ready for the fight of their lives. But their enemy, a terrifying group known as the Vespers, remained frustratingly elusive. They stay in the shadows, picking off Cahills one by one. And now the Vespers have landed their most serious blow yet ? A blow that strikes at the very heart of the Cahill family. Because Amy and Dan discover that...
13. The traitor
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Drawing on the true story of the White Rose--the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-- The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history's darkest hours. In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places,...
Author:
Series:
Ascendance volume 5
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When King Jaron returned to Carthya he brought with him a device that supposedly shows the way to a great treasure, but now everything is going wrong: Castor, the son of an old enemy, is conspiring against him and wants the throne for himself, his fiance Imogen, seems to have turned against him, and the Prozarian Monarch has invaded his kingdom and taken Jaron's castle--but Jaron has a lot of experience at hiding and escaping, and he is not willing...
15. The Final Storm
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Series:
Wingman volume 6
Language:
English
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The most heinous traitor in American history is on trial-and only one man can make sure he pays for his crimes The Soviet Union had nearly been defeated when the vice president of the United States revealed himself as a traitor. He deactivated the defense grid just long enough for the Russians to strike, reducing America to a battle-scarred wasteland. The United States would have remained in shambles, were it not for Hawk Hunter, the greatest fighter...
Author:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss-enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh-had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his class but occasionally its critic, he returns us to his Society which was, he maintains, less interesting than its members admitted. You...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Discover the people and places of colonial Boston during the tumultuous years of rebellion-illustrations included. In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston's backlash. For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides revolted and betrayed, punished and murdered. But the rebel...
Author:
Series:
Masquerade volume 1
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people--even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion....
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
"A revealing guide to a career as a video game designer written by acclaimed journalist Daniel Noah Halpern and based on the real-life experiences of legendary designer Tom Cadwell of Riot Games-required reading for anyone considering a path to this profession"--
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Language:
English
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If you like witches, mythical creatures and furious action, you'll love this book and all of the other books in this universe. - Goodreads Reviewer SH Witch Jane Madison would be perfectly happy planning her wedding to her astral protector, David Montrose. But how can she juggle bridesmaid dresses and seating charts when she's under attack by magical monsters? Jane's school for witches is in session, and the first order of business is an intricate...