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Harry Seymour and Samantha Hazelwood want to get married and
build a family. He is a college student from a wealthy New Orleans
family, and she is the daughter of an old Virginia family. They
could be married without delay, if not for the war that tore the
United States apart. With heavy heart, Harry enlists with the
Confederacy but hates the thought of fighting his own kin from
Connecticut. In the meantime, Sam is recruited to be a spy in
Washington.
As the war comes to an end, the two lovers are reunited. Harry
is a broken man-financially and psychologically, having faced the
terrors of war and lived to tell about them. Still madly in love,
Sam welcomes him home; with the help of relatives and a former
slave, they rebuild their fortunes during the turbulent
Reconstruction. But their troubles are far from over. An old
nemesis will not let the war end at Appomattox.
Elliot Seymour is one of Harry's Connecticut cousins, and he
finds a way to imprison Sam. He confiscates the lovers' home and
uses their former slaves against them. Will Harry and Sam's love
survive yet another tragedy? War is hell; it can ruin an entire
country, but it can also make warriors out of cowards, heroes out
of slaves, and spouses out of lovers-if only good can prevail in
the midst of horror.
ADOLF HITLER IS DEAD AND IT'S ONLY 1943
Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Martin
Bormann are also dead. And the leader of the assassination plot,
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, is the new Chancellor of
Germany.
Stauffenberg unleashes Germany's wonder weapons, the
Messerschmitt 262 jet fighter, the Arado 234 Blitz Bomber, and the
Type 21 super submarine. But it may be too late. The massive Soviet
army is marching relentlessly to the west. And the Americans and
British are bombing Germany day and night, wrecking its war
machine, killing hundreds of thousands, and paving the way for an
invasion in 1944.
Germany is running out of time. But it still has one super
weapon left, and that's the atomic bomb, originally approved by
Hitler in 1934 but abandoned by him in 1940. Professor Werner
Heisenberg and his team of nuclear scientists, now decimated by
Hitler's anti-Jewish hysteria, are Germany's only hope.
Can Germany snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by unlocking
the secrets of the atomic bomb before the scientists of the
Manhattan Project? Can this terrible weapon be used against the
Americans and the British to force them out of the war, and then
smash the Soviet Union? Can Hitler's dream of a thousand-year Reich
be achieved even as his ashes lie at the bottom of a lake on the
outskirts of Berlin?
Oblivion Rouge follows the career of a young teenage villager named
Oumi as she becomes embroiled in a conflict that threatens a
futuristic Africa and the world itself. In the near future, a virus
called the LEUP has infected half the population. The resulting war
between the people of Liam, known as the infected, and the people
of Galoum, known as the immune, becomes a bloody and brutal affair.
When a mysterious army called the Hakkinen emerges to quell the war
between the two countries, they adopt children of war to aid them.
Oumi and her friends are enlisted to help find a cure and end the
bloodshed. With an all-African cast, Oblivion Rouge stems from the
roots of West African philosophy. It is both a brutal dystopian
depiction of the future and a beautiful adventure that explores the
depth of the human spirit. Oumi has made a promise to never suffer
the losses and humiliation she has already seen in her young life.
But with strange forces gathering against her continent, can she
overcome her own insecurities to lead her people to paradise?
Oblivion Rouge is rated OT for Older Teen, recommended for ages 16
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Cynthia Blair, the fourth owner of China Bank, opens her home in a
tangible expression of thanks and support to members of the Pacific
Submarine Fleet Force for their extraordinary service to the United
States. When former shipmates reunite at Blair Mansion, they
unwittingly become involved in the most brazen hijacking attempt
the U.S. Navy has ever seen. Lieutenant Commander Charley Jason and
Polly Flowers' wedding is set to occur at the mansion the night
before inspections will be held on the Piratefish and Minefish
submarines. Also coinciding with the wedding festivities is a
secret mission designed by Colonel Mark Hong, a Red Chinese officer
and agent extraordinaire. Disguised as a bank interne, Hong arrives
at Blair Mansion for his training in American banking. After
members of his gang clandestinely slip ashore, they immediately
begin terrorizing the residents of Chinatown and proceed
step-by-step toward their target. Late on the night of the wedding,
the gang takes hostages and seizes control of a submarine at
Treasure Island. Chief Gunnersmate Carruther and Lieutenant
Sylvester of the Piratefish interrupt the hijacking with their own
counterattack. in the midst of the explosive action in the waters
off the Golden Gate?
A story of war, love and espionage during the Civil War
Although this book is not strictly one of Altsheler's American
Civil War series, Leonaur have chosen to include it within its
collection of the authors novels on this popular topic. The subject
matter of the story is still, of course, the great war between the
states. The action takes place in and around Richmond, the
beleaguered Confederate capital, in the closing stages of the war
as the Union forces press ever closer. A young Confederate officer
is given leave to visit his family and-after so long on
campaign-his eyes are inevitably drawn to the beautiful women of
the South. There are old flames to renew his interest, but also an
unknown, strange and enigmatic beauty. Is she merely aloof or is
there more to this mystery woman? It is clear Union spies are at
work in the city. Important documents are missing. Could it be that
she is an enemy agent? As attraction turns to love, loyalties are
blurred and the action turns to the battlefield, this novel becomes
a highly entertaining read and a fitting companion to Altsheler's
eight novel Civil War series.
When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.
An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. He gathers a team to set up an Escape Line.
But Hauptmann's net begins closing in and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical. By Christmas, it's too late to turn back.
Based on a true story, My Father's House is a powerful thriller from a master of historical fiction. It is an unforgettable novel of love, sacrifice and what it means to be human in the most extreme circumstances.
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