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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. Two years later, he managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. After a misstep with a teenage prostitute, he vowed to right the wrongs he'd done and help the girl have a better life. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, his hopes of being with the girl had...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
605) Quiet hero
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Uncovers the author's father's history as a WWII prisoner-of-war, a situation he found himself in after he joined the Polish resistance against the Nazis as a teen, in a book with archival photos and pictures of artifacts.
608) The book lover
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When Lucinda Barrett's husband destroys their marriage in a shocking betrayal, she's left with nothing but the shattered remnants of her life-- and her novel. Desperate to keep one last dream alive, she sets out on a 1,000 mile journey to get it into the hands of readers-- one bookstore at a time. Ruth Hardaway knows all about shattered dreams. For the last 30 years she's devoted her life to her store, The Book Lover, trying to bury her painful past....
610) Spree: a thriller
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
After having her cover blown and risking everything to stop a nuclear Armageddon, Chandler figured she might have been shown some appreciation. Instead, the organization that trained her locks up Chandler's sister on treason charges, intent on extracting every last scrap of information out of her broken body and mind. Despite the impossible odds, Chandler launches a rescue mission, breaking into an ultra-secret military prison on U.S. soil that no...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"This film reveals the extraordinary stories, told by survivors of North Korea's vast prison camps, of deadly famine, and of every kind of repression. Their experiences are interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored, and whose every thought could bring official retribution." -- Container.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
614) The bezzle
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
615) Hart's war
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When a law student and lieutenant during WWII is captured and asked to defend an African American soldier who is falsly accused of a crime he finds that the trial is a front for secret plans brewing in the prison camp.
617) My brother is away
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"With her older brother in prison, a young girl copes with the confusing feelings his absence creates"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It's a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer...