Recommended Books
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What We Say in the Dark
WWII Lisbon. In the city of light spying is the national sport, lying is the universal language, and dying is an occupational hazard. Watch what you say in the dark.
“A breathtaking, immersive masterpiece that sweeps you up into the haunting reality as the world is torn apart as it plunges into World War II.” – Lori Peterson, Bookbub.
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What We Say in the Dark
WWII Lisbon. In the city of light spying is the national sport, lying is the universal language, and dying is an occupational hazard. Watch what you say in the dark.
“A breathtaking, immersive masterpiece that sweeps you up into the haunting reality as the world is torn apart as it plunges into World War II.” – Lori Peterson, Bookbub.
In 1944 Lisbon Portugal, a city teeming with spies and assassins, Don Gibson, U.S. Army intelligence Officer, is exiled because of past indiscretions. Demoted to the cover of a refugee case worker, secretly he collects scraps of information to pass on to his superiors. He finds the assignment dull but comes to enjoy the pleasures of Lisbon. His idle existence is disturbed when he crosses paths with Isabelle, a Frenchwoman who works alongside him at the relief agency. Rumors about a shadowy past swirl around her like a mist of lies. Don is soon caught up in a deadly guessing game that puts his life at risk.
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Burning Secret
In 1844 Enoch Price was born into poverty. An ambitious youth, he becomes a bare-knuckle fighter amongst London’s underworld. In debt to a violent and unscrupulous moneylender and facing ruin and imprisonment, he escapes to Jacksonville, Florida, abandoning his wife and three young daughters, a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. By the time he arrives in Florida, Enoch Price has become Harry Mason.
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Lady of the Play
Was Elizabeth (Ely) Trentham only just the second wife of Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford? Or, should she be properly recognized as the authentic Shakespeare?
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Paper Wings Over Berlin: A Romantic Suspense (Tales Of Berlin Book 1)
From 1961 until the wall came down in 1989, more than 5,000 East Germans (including some 600 border guards) managed to cross the border by jumping out of windows adjacent to the wall, flying in hot air balloons, crawling through sewers, climbing over the barbed wire, and driving through unfortified parts of the wall at high speeds.
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A Kind of Homecoming: World War I Historical Fiction (A Soldier’s Heart)
In 1914 England, Rose falls deeply in love with Sebastian, a charming young German who shares her passions and aspirations. Their future seems bright and full of possibilities, until the drums of war begin to echo, highlighting their differences and creating insurmountable barriers to their relationship.
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However Long the Day
However Long the Day is the tale of two strangers—Niall Donovan, a poor immigrant from Ireland, and Frederick Philips, a rich ne’er-do-well from New York’s Upper East Side—who discover they look so similar they could be twins. Frederick, desperate to avoid a lecture from his father, bribes Niall to switch places for the evening. Niall finds there’s more to the story than Frederick let on, and is dragged through the turbulence created by World War I, the Spanish Flu, and social upheaval, and into the corrupt belly of Manhattan on the cusp of Prohibition.
As Niall and Frederick hurtle through the next twenty-four hours, will either get what they bargained for?