Romy Nordlinger
1) Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars (Read Along)
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In this biography, young viewers will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA's first cryptology unit. Her story came to light when her secret papers were finally declassified in 2015. From thwarting notorious rumrunners with only paper and pencil to "counter-spying into the minds and activities of" Nazis, she held a pivotal role in the early...
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In this biography, young viewers will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA's first cryptology unit. Her story came to light when her secret papers were finally declassified in 2015. From thwarting notorious rumrunners with only paper and pencil to "counter-spying into the minds and activities of" Nazis, she held a pivotal role in the early...
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An epic novel exposing the ugliness of war and the beauty of hope. The city of Kiev was bombed in Hitler's blitzkrieg across the Soviet Union, but the constant siege was only the beginning for her citizens. In this sweeping historical saga, Kelli Stuart takes the reader on a captivating journey into the little--known history of Ukraine's tragedies through the eyes of four compelling characters who experience the same story from different perspectives"...
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"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne--elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own--springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shihtzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly...
5) The Raven
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As part of his regular street performance, a deception specialist who goes by the name The Raven picks his audience's pockets while they watch. It's harmless fun--until he decides to keep the spare wallet a city councilman doesn't seem to miss, hoping for a few extra bucks. When he finds not money but compromising photos of the councilman and his "personal assistants," The Raven hatches a plan to blackmail the man. However, he quickly finds himself...
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It was supposed to be a silly game.
He offered one night with him and left me a key card.
I accepted his invitation.
We met at the most expensive hotel.
He was rich, and tall. Arrogant, and sexy as hell.
He didn't tell me his name, but I know him too well.
The shape of his tattoo.
The way he smiles at me when he thinks I'm not looking.
He's a man of power, a man who stops at nothing to get what he wants. Claiming, possessing, owning. That's what he...
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After having her heart broken, Brooke Stewart tries to rebuild her life and closes herself off from the one man she loved deeply. When she meets Grayson, a photographer, she has no idea that her new boss will offer her more than she bargained for. The pay is great, her new friends more than welcoming and everything seems to be running well...until everyone insists she spend the night with a stranger.
Jett is used to getting attention from everyone...
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"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the...
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The desperate summons could not be ignored. Stephen Briar's note was more than the grief-stricken missive of a newly widowed brother-in-law. Since Ann's untimely death, evil had settled over Briarcliff, and Stephen was fighting for his survival. Jessica Rice sought to uncover the truth about the accident that had claimed her sister's life, but the mystery only deepened. Intrigue wove around intrigue, casting all the occupants of Briarcliff under the...
10) Phantom Manor
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From the moment she came to live at Phantom Manor, a rotting pile of stone she had suddenly inherited, Jan Davis became the terrified victim of a series of "accidents."
The lurking murderer could be anyone whose life was tied to the dread secret of the eerie mansion; a homicidal, half-witted young man; a jealous relative who wanted the manor for herself; even a neighboring landowner with whom Jan had fallen in love.
But the hidden villain of Phantom...
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Heiress Emily and Gale Garvis wait in terror as the Ouija board begins to reveal who will die next. Emily Garvis is sure that their dead father is sending them messages through the Ouija board. Her sister Gale, more practical, believes that they come instead from Emily's troubled subconscious. In either case, the warnings are horrifying: madness and danger and death.
Then Emily is brutally murdered in her own bedroom. Heartbroken and terrified, Gale...
12) The Haiti Circle
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Voodoo drums beat out terror in this place of masked evil and perilous passion.
So far from home, so close to hell
The lush vegetation and burning sun of Haiti was a world away from Agnes Woodridge's New England home. Despite herself, the lovely young woman felt a tremor of fear of the unknown when she entered the great mansion of Seacrest to take care of a mysterious disturbed little girl, Germaine Dodge.
Agnes would have trembled still more if...
13) Memory of Evil
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Would Anna become another victim of the eerie menace - or was she the menace itself?
Anna Percival drifted through the shadowy rooms of the old dark house in a sleepwalker's trance. And wherever she went a strange death was sure to follow.
Many years before, at Land's End Manor, lived another Anna, a murderess of uncommon cunning and cruelty. Gossipy villagers tried to make Anna Percival believe that the other Anna's evil spirit lived in her!
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14) Cameron Castle
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WHAT WILL LAURA FIND AT CAMERON CASTLE - LONG LIFE OR SUDDEN DEATH!
Despite warnings from her friends that he is only a fortune hunter, beautiful heiress Laura Coles marries Donald Cameron. Fighting her fear, Laura agrees to settle at bleak Cameron Castle, her husband's ancestral home.
But there is no welcome for Laura in that brooding mansion. Donald's relatives treat her as an intruder. Donald suddenly becomes cold and withdrawn. Laura's fear...
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The wrath of the voodoo gods means death!
Karen arrives at the Bagnold plantation in Haiti determined to uncover the truth about her cousin Sheila's mysterious death. Sheila's husband, Henri Bagnold, is not above suspicion - though Karen finds herself inalterably drawn to the handsome artist.
But Henri is not the only one who had a motive for murder. His beautiful adopted sister, Jean Marie, or his attractive blonde secretary, Dorothy, also had...
16) Phantom Wedding
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Description Coming Soon... Description Coming Soon..... William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross,...
17) Annabel Lee
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Fourteen miles east of Peachtree, Alabama, a secret is hidden. That secret's name is Annabel Lee Truckson, and even she doesn't know why her mysterious uncle has stowed her deep underground in a military-style bunker. He's left her with a few German words, a barely-controlled guard dog, and a single command: "Don't open that door for anybody, you got it? Not even me."Above ground, a former Army sniper called The Mute and an enigmatic "Dr. Smith" know...
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Phantom Rendezvous
Connie Brewer could not resist Stephen Hemmings' job offer - he was handsome, charming, and if he seemed slightly sinister, that could be explained by his fascination with the occult. To leave cold New York and join Stephen in an "experiment" on the Italian Riviera? How could she refuse? But then, at the Villa Gabriel, Connie learned the true nature of the experiment - to raise the specter of the murdered Maria, Stephen's...
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Was a noose tightening around a horrified Deborah Foster?
It was the night of evil ritual. The worshippers of the devil danced around the ruined abbey, now transformed into a temple of terror. Deborah had come there hoping to unmask her sister's killer.
Suddenly against her will, Deborah felt herself succumbing to the unholy spell woven by the frenzied witches. Relentlessly they began to encircle her. Panic gripped her for she knew they had chosen...
20) Dark of the Moon
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The Shadow World
between sanity and sadness surrounded her. But lovely Julia Glasson was too much in love to recognize the signs.
Then slowly, with deadly certainty, a terror-filled nightmare-suddenly real-was clutching at her very life.... The Shadow World
between sanity and sadness surrounded her. But lovely Julia Glasson was too much in love to recognize the signs.
Then slowly, with deadly certainty, a terror-filled nightmare-suddenly...