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Downing, David

Summary: In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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Downing, David

Summary: "Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015

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Downing, David

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Summary: "Los Angeles, 1953. It has been five years since British journalist John Russell struck a deal with a high-ranking Soviet official, relieving Russell of his duty as double-agent for Soviet and American intelligence. Now Russell lives a life of relative comfort in Los Angeles alongside his wife, Effi, a star on an American sitcom, and their adopted daughter, Rosa, a young artist on the cusp of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024

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Downing, David

Summary: "It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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Downing, David

Summary: Working as a reluctant double agent for Russia and the CIA in politically strained 1948 Berlin, John Russell is approached by a woman he saved during World War II who begs his help reclaiming her child from behind the Iron Curtain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2013

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Downing, David.

Summary: "Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking himto undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012

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Downing, David C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: InterVarsity Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 DOW

Downing, David C.

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Contents: Introduction : the overlooked Lewis -- The mystique of mysticism -- Mystical elements in Lewis's life -- Christian mysticism as Lewis knew it -- The mystical way in the space trilogy -- Finding words to explore the mind of God -- Mystical elements in the Narnia chronicles -- Lewis's critique of mysticism -- Learning from the mystical way -- Appendix : a brief timeline of Christian mystics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: InterVarsity Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.22 DOW

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)

Summary: Cultivated from his many essays, articles, and letters, as well as his classic works, The Reading Life provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis' reflections on science fiction, why children's literature is for readers of all ages, and why we should read two old books for every new one.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne / HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 LEW

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Bowring, Dave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.3 BOW

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