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Using WWII's Battle of the Bulge as background, Frost spins real-life and fictional characters into thriller gold. Hitler assigns his most feared commando, Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny, to lead a 2,000-man brigade disguised as American troops in Operation Autumn Mist, a last-ditch effort to defeat the western Allies in late 1944 by breaking through the lightly defended Belgium-Luxembourg region. Within this German unit is a special group of 20 commandos...
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Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
"Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see...
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Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime. So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, Tracy agrees.
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"Una vida perfecta puede derrumbarse en cuestión de segundos. Charles y Mary forman un matrimonio que encarna la viva imagen del éxito: él es un próspero hombre de negocios que procede de una familia ilustre de políticos estadounidenses y ella, una cirujana brillante de gran renombre. Sin embargo, su vida de ensueño se ve truncada por la trágica muerte de su hijo mayor en un accidente de esquí. Los padres, atenazados por el dolor y la pena,...
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Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison.
"Charles Jenkins, agente de la CIA retirado, ha conseguido sobrevivir a una operación encubierta que se torció y por la que acabó juzgado por traición....
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"Roger Lincoln Shinn is an esteemed professor of social ethics at a prestigious New York institution. Known only to his wife, he had faced the unspeakable as a combat infantryman in the Second World War. But two decades later during the Vietnam War, Shinn reveals to stunned students his astounding story as a soldier and prisoner of war and those of a defiant captain in his outfit who ruptures the boundaries of conventional warfare. On a converted...
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A sweeping novel of World War II, set in the Ardennes, from the acclaimed author of Child Wonder. The Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and host to the Battle of the Bulge. In a small valley among these borders lives Robert, born of an affair between an American GI and the Belgian nurse who rescued him. In his father's absence, Robert finds a...
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Charles Jenkins, antiguo agente de operaciones de la CIA, se encuentra en una encrucijada. A sus sesenta años recién cumplidos, tiene una familia a la que cuidar, un bebé en camino... y una empresa de asesoría especializada en seguridad al borde de la quiebra. Un día se presenta en su casa su antiguo jefe con un encargo peligroso: viajar encubiertamente a Moscú y localizar a la agente rusa que, según sospechan, está aniquilando a los integrantes...
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