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Summary: "1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BERQuinn, Kate
Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC QUIBlack, Benjamin
Summary: Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020Bell, Ted
Summary: December 8, 1941, Washington, D.C: The new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Tiger Tang, meets with President Roosevelt one day after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. China and the U.S. are wartime allies, but the Chinese ambassador may be playing his own treacherous game, including an assassination plot that could well change the course of history. Present day, the Bahamas: Alex Hawke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBarr, Lisa
Summary: "After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual-and very secret-assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARNewton, Andie
Summary: Rumors of the Reich's dreaded Brown Sisters coming for Czech children swept through the villages like a breeze through the trees, but the story was always the same. The Reich wanted Aryan looking children to raise as their own. Since her husband, Josef, joined the Czech resistance three years ago, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when blonde haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEWQuinn, Kate
Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC QUIRobards, Karen
Summary: "On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBSilver, Mitch
Summary: The discovery of a human arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist at a London construction site prompts Russian historian Lara "the Bookworm" Klimt to investigate a secret World War II operation and prevent a present-day international conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SILHarris, Robert
Summary: A World War II German rocket engineer under orders to launch V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland and an actress-turned-English intelligence officer with a mission to neutralize the bombings land on opposite sides in a desperate hunt for a saboteur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMann, Peter
Summary: "Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANRobards, Karen
Summary: On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family is caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it's only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRuggero, Ed
Summary: "April 1944, the fifty-fifth month of the war in Europe. The entire island of Britain fairly buzzes with the coiled energy of a million men poised to leap the Channel to France, the first, riskiest step in the Allies' long slog to the heart of Germany and the end of the war. Lieutenant Eddie Harkins is tasked to investigate the murder of Helen Batcheller, an OSS analyst. Harkins is assigned a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGSimmons, Dan
Summary: German physicist Paul Haber fled to America to work on the atomic bomb and avenge the loss of his family to the Nazis, but when he learns that his family is alive in Nazi hands, he must spy on his new homeland to protect them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "From a modern master of the classic espionage novel comes William Christie's The Double Agent, featuring Alexsi Smirnoff - a Russian/German double agent loyal only to himself - in a desperate bid to protect himself, again becomes a double agent, this time for the English. Alexsi Smirnoff - a Russian orphan - was trained as an agent by the Russian Secret Service and inserted into Nazi Germany,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022