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Hollywood Buzz

By Margit Liesche - Published 2009

Genres:

To begin with, Pucci Lewis is a WASP, Women’s Airforce Service Pilot, that is, the organization established during World War II to ...Read Review

Evil for Evil

By James R. Benn - Published 2009

Genres:

Military Mystery/Crime

In this fourth installment of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries, the intrepid lieutenant from South Boston is sent by General Eisenhower ...Read Review

The Innocent Spy

By Laura Wilson - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In wartime London, Detective Stratton is investigating the death of silent screen star Mabel Morgan. Although it appears to be the work of ...Read Review

A Quiet Flame

By Philip Kerr - Published 2008 Published 2009

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Literary Mystery/Crime

Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph Eichmann for company. ...Read Review

Winston’s War: A Novel of Deception

By Michael Dobbs - Published 2003 Published 2009

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Biographical Fiction Epic Thriller

Following upon the success of Never Surrender, this is another of Michael Dobbs’s previously published novels centering on pivotal moments in the ...Read Review

A Trace of Smoke

By Rebecca Cantrell - Published 2009

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Mystery/Crime

Trolling for a story at Berlin’s Hall of the Unnamed Dead, crime reporter Hannah Vogel is shocked to find a photograph of ...Read Review

Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941

By David Dary - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

Despite the subtitle, this is primarily a history of medical practice in America’s frontiers, concentrating on the time after the Revolution. The ...Read Review

Death Was In The Picture

By Linda L. Richards - Published 2008

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Mystery/Crime

Times are tough for Depression-era girl Friday Kitty Pangborn and her PI boss Dexter Theroux in their run down LA office—but in ...Read Review

Winnie and Wolf

By A.N. Wilson - Published 2008

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Biographical Fiction

The title refers to Winifred Wagner, the English wife of Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, and Wolf, the self-chosen nickname of Adolf Hitler. ...Read Review