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By Sarah Death, Steve Sem-Sandberg. 2011
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its…
chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. Chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime. Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? 2011. Uniform title: De fattiga i Łódź.By Kristina Ohlsson. 2014
A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identified…
as Rebecca Trolle, a student who went missing two years earlier. While Fredrika Bergman and her team try to find out why Rebecca met such a violent demise, more bodies are found in the same area. Fredrika Bergman is inevitably drawn into the case, but it becomes much more complicated when her lover's name is mentioned in the investigation. 2014. Uniform title: Änglavakter.By Alexandra Gambrill Curry. 2015
A novel inspired by the life of Qing dynasty courtesan Sai Jinhua follows the experiences of an orphan, whose world…
transforms when she becomes an emissary's concubine during the late-nineteenth-century clashes between China and imperialist Europe. 2015.By Avner Mandelman. 2010
1977. David Starkman returns from self-imposed exile in Canada to his native Israel after learning of the murder of his…
war hero father, Isser. Isser's will includes an unusual provision - that within 45 days, a controversial play he'd written, 'The Debba', be staged. David, who once belonged to an elite Israeli army unit, decides to fulfill his father's request, while searching for clues to solve the murder. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. 2010.By Julie Garwood. 1997
Travis Clayborne escorts young Bostonian Emily Finnegan to Montana where she'll meet Travis' brothers, Douglas and Adam, and discover what…
awaits her as a mail-order bride. But perhaps her destiny is not exactly as she imagined. Made up of the novellas One pink rose, One white rose and One red rose. Sequel to "For the roses" (DC23594.) 1997.By Beverly Lewis. 1997
Katie, now Katherine Mayfield, searches for her birth mother. The journey takes her to the Finger Lakes region of New…
York and into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal. Meanwhile Katie's first love, Daniel, wants to rekindle their relationship. Sequel to "The Shunning" (DC36967), followed by "The reckoning" (DC36966). 1997. (The Heritage of Lancaster County ; 2)By James Walker. 1996
Wells Fargo agent Zac Cobb's new assignment takes him to Arizona to track down bandits stealing army payrolls. It also…
leads him into a confrontation with his brother Julian, who, bitter from injuries suffered in the Civil War, has become an outlaw. They find themselves thrust together on a boat careening down the rapids of the Colorado River. Sequel to "The Rawhiders". c1996. (The Wells Fargo trail ; 5)By Judith Pella, Michael R Phillips. 1991
Just prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution, Anna finds work in the palace at St. Petersburg. There, she meets the…
spoiled Princess Katrina and, by example of faith, influences the princess. Against brewing political conflict, they struggle to survive. 1991. (The Russians ; 1)By Howard Akler. 2005
1934. With Toronto stalled in the Great Depression, Mona Kantor makes a living as a pickpocket, while reporter Eli Morenz…
struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued city. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld that Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 2005.By Clem Martini. 2018
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once famous for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he…
struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity. This could be the performance that returns fortune and reputation, or the one that ends it all. Engaging, thoughtful, and funny, "The Comedian" dives into the rough and tumble world of arts in its infancy. Martini draws on his experience to bring to life the signs and sounds of a world where playwrights suffered and succeeded - but mostly suffered. 2018.By Lara Dearman. 2018
Following a traumatic incident in London, journalist Jennifer Dorey returns home to Guernsey for a job at a local newspaper.…
When she finds a drowned woman on a beach, Jennifer uncovers a pattern of similar deaths over the last fifty years, and a dark trail of myths and folklore leading to the murderous son of a Nazi soldier whose work has so far gone undetected. But as Jennifer gets closer to the truth of the killer's identity, she finds herself stepping deeper into his grasp. 2018.By Kristina Ohlsson. 2016
On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours…
later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective. 2016. Uniform title: Davidsstjarnor.By Tiina Nunnally, Camilla Läckberg. 2015
After a man disappears in Fjällbacka, Patrik Hedström and his colleagues are unsure if he is dead or alive. When,…
four months later he is found murdered, frozen in the ice, it comes to light that one of the dead man's acquaintances, author Christian Thydell, has begun receiving anonymous threats. When he receives a threat during the launch party for his breakthrough novel, he breaks down and shows the letters to Erika Falck, who helped him with the manuscript. He refuses to contact the police, and Erika sneaks a letter into her bag and shows it to Patrik. Long suspecting that something is tormenting Christian, she and her husband agree that he is in great danger. When another man is found murdered, the police realize that there is a connection. Sequel to "The hidden child". 2015. Uniform title: Sjöjungfrun.By Bill Loehfelm. 2017
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rookie cop Maureen Coughlin has no idea what she’s in for. Her night…
working the parades begins calmly enough—until a half-naked man careens through the crowd and throws himself onto the hood of an oncoming SUV. As she tries to deal with the incident amid the pulsing chaos of the parade, Maureen hears gunshots. Moments later, with three wounded and a handful of drunken witnesses, Maureen has a full-fledged investigation on her hands. Who was the shooter? Who was he after? Who’s the next target? City bigwigs begin pressuring Maureen and her crew for quick answers. 2017.By Cormac McCarthy. 2016
Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years…
before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed. 2016.By Cheryl Honigford. 2016
Chicago, 1938. Late one night before the ten o'clock show, the body of a prominent radio actress is found dead…
in the station's lounge. All the evidence points to murder, and one young, up-and-coming radio actress, Vivian Witchell, as the next victim. But Viv isn't the type to leave her fate in the hands of others - she's used to stealing the show. Alongside charming private detective Charlie Haverman, Vivian is thrust into a world of clues and motives, suspects and secrets. And with so much on the line, Viv finds her detective work doesn't end when the "On-Air" lights go out. 2016.By Susan Wittig Albert. 2015
By Danielle Steel. 2017
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield,…
after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. She makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam--and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style, and her father's bequest, Angélique creates Le Boudoir, soon a sensational establishment where powerful men, secret desires, and beautiful, sophisticated women come together. But living on the edge of scandal, can she ever make a life of her own--or regain her rightful place in the world? Bestseller. 2017.By David Liss. 2014
Returning to mid-eighteenth-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the protégé of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver,…
stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies. 2014.