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Author
Series
Daughters of war volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl, travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald. Yet, while she was guilty of atrocities, the most sensational crimes and sexual perversions ascribed to her by courts and newspapers never happened. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution"--
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Describes President Nixon's association, through a political advisor and lawyer, with individuals in the Mafia, including Mickey Cohen, Meyer Lansky, Jimmy Hoffa, and Carlos Marcello and details the favors he exchanged with them to advance his own career.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a little boy, Pacifique Irankunda lived through the thirteen-year civil war in Burundi, the war that upended his home and family, and destroyed Burundi's beautiful culture and traditions. He hid and watched as military units destroyed his village; he and his brother slept in the woods on nights when they heard shooting and violence. From his own memories and those of his family, he tells this story of surviving the devastating ethnic divisions...
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