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At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior–Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”―an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves...
<b>Travel to Berlin in 1939 is treacherous. Carrying out two clandestine missions in the enemy capital could prove deadly.</b> <br>
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When a Quaker Kindertransport chaperone is murdered in the East End of London, Britain's counterintelligence spymaster tasks Olivia Denis to join the group rescuing children from Nazi Germany. Olivia must find not only a killer, but a traitor relaying sensitive material to the
...6) The Caller
Just one year ago, Neryn had nothing but a canny skill she barely understood and a faint dream that the legendary rebel base of Shadowfell might be real. Now she is the rebels’ secret weapon, and their greatest hope for survival...
7) Shadowfell
During her dangerous journey, she receives...
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME.com, and Kirkus
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A USA Today Book Not to Miss
A LitHub Best-Reviewed Book of the Year
The final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated...
Neryn must journey with the tough and steadfast Tali, who looks...
What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in 1840s Britain and France, these questions probe at the essence of what it means to be human.
A wet nurse in a lively Scottish household goes by an assumed name, but longs to know the identity of her father. A quarryman furtively extricates a remarkable fossil from an island off the Northumberland coast and promptly smuggles
...As Britain prepares for an imminent invasion, the murder of a celebrated Arctic explorer leads to the discovery of a web of Nazi spies on the south coast.
July, 1939. Newlywed Olivia Denis Redmond plans to spend a peaceful honeymoon in the country before war rips her soldier husband away. But when she finds a dead body in the midst of a blackout, Olivia is drawn into the investigation.
Since the police
...12) The Wendy
When the world doesn't want
you to be who you are,
you must become more yourself
than you knew you could be.
London. 1789. More than anything in the world, Wendy Darling wants to be the captain of a ship, but women aren't allowed in the Royal Navy. When she learns the Home Office is accepting a handful of women into its ranks, she jumps at the chance,...
14) Deadly Broadcast
The phony war has dragged out past Christmas into a dark and dreary New Year, 1940.
In the blackout, someone murdered BBC engineer Frank Kennedy, making him more popular dead than alive. A blackmailer and bully, he sold out his friends, assaulted his Broadcasting House colleagues, and sabotaged his employer.
Kennedy was also a government informant against the IRA. Despite arrests of members, the IRA is still planning
...15) Deadly Deception
How long can Britain hold out against Nazi aggression when traitors hide along the vulnerable south coast?
New cover. Same great story.
Olivia Denis discovers her father kneeling over the body of a man who supposedly drowned in the Channel years before. Scotland Yard suspects her father of the murder, but certain of his innocence, Olivia can't let her maddening, disapproving father hang.
Against
...16) Deadly Manor
Surrounded by war, stalked by murder, can she stay alive?
October 1940. Livvy Redmond is thrilled to receive an invitation to a country house party away from the Blitz. There she hopes to help her husband overcome his injuries from fighting in France. But excitement turns to horror when she stumbles across two members of the house party – murdered.
Indebted to her hostess, Livvy attempts to catch the killer. No
...Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write." Orwell...