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Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found on a cobblestone back alley, Lt. Voigt is called in to investigate. It's his first murder, but in the plot that he quickly begins unraveling, it won't be his last. Pursuing crosses and double-crosses, Voigt goes undercover and the fragments...
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Solstice "Soulless" Smith is a demon wrapped in human skin, who only has love for one person: his manipulative big brother, Theory.
By chance, Soulless, Theory, and the rest of the old crew bump into Calico, who recently got, released from prison after doing six and a half years for a case he took for Theory.
In the midst of a robbery that same night, Theory calls Calico and asks for an unusual, and unsettling, favor. Against his better judgement,...
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2016.
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"In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found on a cobblestone back alley,...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-after poets: poems that range from descriptions of the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and relationships, from a vision of her Jewish heritage to a hard-hitting take on today¿́¿s political ironies. In her trademark style, combining the sublime with the gritty, Marge Piercy describes the night...