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1) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time--as is known...and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known....and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
3) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Britannica Digital Learning
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
World War II explores the secrets of World War II. Throughout the war, both sides made great efforts to uncover enemy plans and keep their own secrets hidden. They engaged in secret operations, plots, and missions, always attempting to wrongfoot the enemy or take them by surprise.
4) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Britannica Digital Learning
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Cold War explores the secrets of the Cold War. The superpowers never fought openly on a battlefield. Instead, they attacked one another by underhand means—spying, propaganda, secret operations, and guerrilla wars.
5) Sibs
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kara Wald thought she knew her sister Kelly. She was practical, down-to-earth, and just a little bit dull. But then Kelly died after jumping-or being pushed-out of a twelfth-floor window of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel-wearing only a black garter belt and black stockings. And after having sex with two men.
How could this have happened? Kara uncovers a bizarre and twisted world of sadistic sex and decadent violence-and something worse. Something strange...
6) World War I
Author
Publisher
Britannica Digital Learning
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of combat that included trench warfare, strategies of attrition, and the first use of airpower.
7) Record Zero
Author
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket.
The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero by Buchanan is an illustrated roll-call for punk, post-punk, hardcore, no-wave, and experimental bands from ground zero 'til now. A starting point for anyone curious, another reference for those who devour all
...8) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known....and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
9) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known....and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
10) Black wind
Author
Series
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Pacific conflict as seen through the eyes of two families with little in common but pride, and of four people torn between love and honor.
11) The Iraq War
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known....and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known ... and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else - and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that isn't built to withstand your size? To live in a house that doesn't fit you anymore - with a wife who doesn't either? Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Eddie Drood's clan has been watching mankind's back for ages. And now he's in charge of the whole kit and caboodle. But it's not going to be an easy gig... During World War II, the Droods made a pact with some nasty buggers from another dimension known as the Loathly Ones, which they needed to fight the Nazis. But once the war was over, the Loathly Ones decided that they liked this world too much to leave. Now it's up to Eddie to make things very...
Author
Series
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green continues his Secret Histories series with debonair-yet-deadly paranormal agent Eddie Drood pulled into a hunt for a treasure worth far more than mere money…
As part of a family legacy representing courage, determination, and the occasional dirty trick, Eddie Drood rather enjoys making his own rules-and breaking them. When it comes to facing down the darkest entities in creation and putting real...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
It's no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. Now their Matriarch is dead, and it's up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Some call me Shaman Bond, but I was born Eddie Drood, the latest in a long line of folks who chase monsters out of closets for a living to keep humanity safe from all that is dark, demonic, and just downright evil. Needless to say, we've made our fair share of enemies over the centuries and made some questionable bargains. In exchange for the power to fight the forces of darkness, my parents signed over their souls. They're not the only ones who've...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Secret Histories novels deliver "a terrific, adventurous blend of genres...[and] high-octane heroism," (SFRevu) wrapped up in a thrilling and dangerous supernatural world that only New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green could dream up.... Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don't want to know me at all. For centuries, my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence...
20) Casino Infernale
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Shaman Bond and his witch girlfriend attend an annual gambling gala sponsored by a shady bank involved in supernatural crime in an attempt to bring it down in the latest installment of the series following Live and Let Drood.
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