![]() On board are two best friends, a pilot (Maddie, code name: Kittyhawk) and a spy (Julie, code name: Verity). In 1943 Nazi-occupied France, a British Lysander spy plane crashes in the fictional town of Ormaie. A prequel novel, The Pearl Thief, was published in May 2017 it is a mystery involving Code Name Verity 's protagonist Julie a year before the war starts. Printz Honor Book in 2013, and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.Ī loose sequel, Rose Under Fire, was published in 2013. ![]() In World War II – a spy captured by Nazis in German-occupied France and the pilot who took her there. It focuses on the friendship of two young British women, ![]() ![]() Code Name Verity is a young adult historical fiction novel by Elizabeth Wein that was published in 2012. ![]()
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Marbled with references to the fiction of H.P. ![]() ![]() Winter Tide is the debut novel from Ruthanna Emrys, author of the Aphra Marsh story, "The Litany of Earth"-included here as a bonus.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.Īphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather scraps of her stolen history, and assemble a new family to face the darkness of human nature. The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. ![]() It's an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart" -Cherie PriestĪfter attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. " Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery - truly strange and compellingly grim. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2016 Davitt Awards - Best debut crime book. But does his persistence border on stubbornness? And at what cost? As he delves deeper into the investigation Caleb uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend - and himself. Caleb is a memorable protagonist who refuses to let his deafness limit his opportunities, or his participation in the investigation. Emma Viskics critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic novels have been published worldwide. But Scott is always one step ahead.This gripping, original and fast-paced crime thriller is set between a big city and a small coastal town, Resurrection Bay, where Caleb is forced to confront painful memories. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. "Sometimes the smallest towns hide the darkest secrets" - Cover.Ĭaleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Randall is intercepted by a group of Scottish clansmen, who then kidnap Claire. Randall accuses Claire of being a prostitute and tries to sexually accost her. After touching the stones, Claire is transported back in time to the year 1743, where she finds herself face-to-face with Frank’s ancestor Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, who is a more sinister character than the historical records let on. Upon finding the plant, she hears a strange wail coming from the stones. After seeing a Scottish ritual performed there, Claire returns to the site to study a plant. ![]() ![]() On a botany tour, Claire stumbles upon an ancient henge. While Claire studies botany in the Scottish Highlands, Frank researches his Scottish ancestors, namely a soldier called Captain Jonathan Randall. Former WWII nurse Claire Beauchamp and her historian husband Frank Randall have returned to Scotland to reconnect after several years of separation due to the war. Told from the perspective of 27-year-old Englishwoman Claire Beauchamp, Outlander begins in 1945 in Inverness, Scotland. ![]() ![]() People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. ![]() Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. ![]() But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. ![]() A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. ![]() ![]() It is a journey through the heart, the mind, and some of the wildest places left in North America. ![]() Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace - migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences.Ī unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, the audiobook explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of creatures whose daily survival is nothing short of miraculous. ![]() In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rain forest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. ![]() Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.ĭuring graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. ![]() ![]() ![]() They must reach the Castle of the Seven Towers, home for Tal, but a dangerous and strange place for Milla. ![]() Tal, a Chosen, and Milla, an Icecarl, have been thrown together on a dangerous quest to gain a Sunstone. ![]() In all the world there is only one place that ever sees the sun, a seven-towered castle on a mountain high above the desolate ice lands below. In the Dark World, society is ranked according to colour clans and the most precious commodity is light. Second title in fantasy adventure series, THE SEVENTH TOWER, from bestselling author, Garth Nix. In addition to the spells and curses that permeate Aenir, there are evil powers that do not want Tal and Milla to succeed and they will stop at nothing to see that they do not! There they must find the Codex, a mysterious book that details the entire history of their Dark World and will ultimately decide their fate. Tal and Milla continue on their quest together, travelling to the magical land. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment! or death. The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. ![]() Third of the thrilling fantasy adventure series, THE SEVENTH TOWER, from international bestselling author, Garth Nix. Garth Nix The Seventh Tower 6 Books Collection Box Set ![]() ![]() The tigers were stolen by a non-licensed Minnesota doctor who wants to sell their body parts for the production of traditional Chinese medicines. And this book does indeed involve the theft of two tigers from a Twin Cities zoo. She nailed the description of Flowers, a Minnesota BCA agent who's been known to tow his boat along to a crime scene or two. ![]() Putnam's Sons, $29, 392 pages), Sandford's recent Virgil Flowers novel: 'Who else could create a really excellent, long-haired cop who wears old rocker T-shirts, who hates guns and loves tacky women, country music and God? And then come up with a plot involving stealing tigers.” Let my friend Mary Sharp set up 'Escape Clause” (G.P. I only wish Sandford could produce novels at the pace of a Stuart Woods. ![]() The man can write a riveting police procedural thriller with the creepiest bad guys imaginable and still manage to make me chuckle all the way through it. ![]() John Sandford (aka Cedar Rapids native John Camp) has a gift. ![]() |