Strangers in Venice

Strangers in Venice

Author: A. W. Hartoin

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781952875014

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November, 1938 It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family secret he carried. Stella and her husband, Nicky, follow, intent on warning them. But things don't go to plan. Venice is flooded, Stella aggravates her injuries, and the cousins are no where to be found. Suspicions abound and friends are hard to find. Italy has fallen under Hitler's spell and nothing is as it was. The Nazis and, in particular, SS Oberführer Peiper still want their prize and believe Stella and Nicky have it. Stella will have to decide how far her loyalty goes and where she belongs: far away safe from the gathering storm or on the front lines with a chance to change the course of the coming war. Her choices will affect her family's future for generations to come.


The Paris Package

The Paris Package

Author: A. W. Hartoin

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781718134164

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For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities first hand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon but touch them it does. In the chaotic aftermath, Stella finds passion and purpose in the form of a package with a Paris address. She promises to deliver it, not knowing what it contains or who wants it. Soon Stella must decide who and what she's willing to sacrifice to keep a secret that has been quietly guarded for five hundred years.


The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Author: John Mandeville

Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

Published: 2020-01-27

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1647980542

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.


Kid Rex

Kid Rex

Author: Laura Moisin

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1554903297

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The story of Moisin's struggle to overcome anorexia and find her true identity.


One Child in Berlin

One Child in Berlin

Author: A. W. Hartoin

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9781952875007

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November 1939 It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her a courier, a job well below her skills, but it's not as simple as it seems. The new head of the service isn't convinced of her worth and Stella has to use the opportunity to show him that she and other women can deliver for Britain or she's out on her ear. That would be enough to make any newly-minted spy nervous, but the earl isn't done. He has a favor to ask and the request sends Stella to a place that will haunt her forever.


The Cultural Cold War

The Cultural Cold War

Author: Frances Stonor Saunders

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1595589147

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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.


All that is Solid Melts Into Air

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Author: Marshall Berman

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780860917854

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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.


A Quiet Little Place on Rue de Lille

A Quiet Little Place on Rue de Lille

Author: A W Hartoin

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781952875168

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Paris 1940 The Reich is moving in and Stella Bled Lawrence can't get out. Stella has proved adept at the double agent game, too adept as it turns out. The British want her to stay where she is, even though she's about to be trapped, and worse, the Nazis want to expand her work into a distressing direction. When two Nazi agents go rogue, Stella is at the right place at the wrong time. She ends up on the worst mission possible and her Nazi handler Villemain demands success or else. Stella thinks she can use this new mission to get herself and her poodle, Bijou, out of Paris. It isn't the best place to be between food shortages, roaming packs of abandoned dogs, and desperate people with the Wehrmacht marching ever closer. One problem leads to another and Stella's assigned to work on the Reich's plan for theft on a grand scale with sidelines into documenting Jewish art and apartments. Everyone wants something and Stella thinks she has nothing left to give until she realizes her wretched assignments might be used to help the people she cares about instead of hurting them. It's a huge gamble, but she's willing to take it. Once she's on the job, her expertise in art gets noticed and delivers an opportunity that the British never thought they'd have. The ultimate sacrifice is always on the table and Stella will have to make a devastating choice. People won't survive. The question is...will Stella?


The Books in My Life

The Books in My Life

Author: Henry Miller

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780811201087

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In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.