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1) Lord Jim
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a would-be hero who deserts what he thinks is a sinking ship and thereafter is haunted by shame and the need to explain himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson). One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
699 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam. President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can't move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who...
11) Carriers
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
12) Thief of glory
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Captive Passions: Sirena fought his embrace. Ignoring her protests, he seized her and began to remove her gown. All was forgotten, then she remembered the wicked scar on her arm. Pushing him from her she strained to escape. He said nothing, but his eyes said it all. He meant to have her. Captive Embraces: Their sons death creates an irreconcilable rift between Regan and Sirena. Regan leaves for Spain; Sirena decides to go with him but is too late....
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
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