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Miss Dimple misteries volume 3
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2013
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During World War II, Elderberry, Georgia, teacher Miss Dimple helps search for a missing child. She finds the child and leaves her in the care of an elderly artist, Mae Martha. A few days later, Miss Dimple learns that Mae Martha has been murdered, and she sets out, with fellow teachers, to prove that Mae Martha's young companion, Suzy, is not the guilty party.
22) Days of infamy
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using...
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In late 1944, America’s naval forces face what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwarf every other ship at sea. Built in secrecy, these ships seem invincible, and lay waste to any challengers. American military intelligence knows of two such ships, but there is rumored to be a third, a newly-built aircraft carrier, ready to launch from Japan’s heavily-defended and mined Inland Sea. Such a ship would...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
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Flo is sick of Tokyo. Her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. Then she finds a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel. It is a story about Ayako, a fierce and strict old woman who runs a coffee shop in the small town of Onomichi, where she has just taken guardianship of her grandson, Kyo. Haunted by long-buried family...
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Honor volume 16
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Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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The Perdicaris Hostage Crisis in Morocco has diverted Rear Admiral Peter Wake from his critical main project: obtaining Imperial Germany's 1903 revised invasion plans against the United States. After defusing the hostage mess, Wake and his team head for Hamburg and St. Petersburg on a diplomatic mission. In a perilous evening in St. Petersburg, Wake is trapped by the dreaded Russian Okhrana into joining the Russian fleet as a neutral observer on their...
