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Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. 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As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the \"Angel of Death\" who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel \"Butcher of Lyon\"; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann. Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled \"Nazi hunters.\" This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death. Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader. 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Years after her grandfather's death, Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters that opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. \"She was your grandfather's true love,\" her grandmother said at the time. In the course of discovering Valy's ultimate fate, Wildman was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather's triumphant escape. 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A boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. John Hutchinson. Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée. While Georgie and Hutch share a love of the starry night skies over Sicily, their lives back home are falling apart. Can they weather the hurt and betrayal? 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But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. After a frantic search to obtain visas, the Rosenthals and the Martins depart on the luxurious ship bound for Havana. Life on board the St. Louis is like a surreal holiday for the refugees, with masquerade balls, exquisite meals, and polite, respectful service. But soon ominous rumors from Cuba undermine the passengers' fragile sense of safety. From one day to the next, impossible choices are offered, unthinkable sacrifices are made, and the ship that once was their salvation seems likely to become their doom. Seven decades later in New York City, on her twelfth birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Its contents will inspire Anna and her mother to travel to Havana to learn the truth about their family's mysterious and tragic past, a quest that will help Anna understand her place and her purpose in the world. The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of the Second World War to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fcontributions\u002Fwork\u002F01\u002F01kx2vddxrtv1e2gt0pva16fvx_6a4f4c087a00a.jpg?v=0e94a89bfd",2016,343,[523],{"id":524,"slug":525,"name":526},"01kx2tamjjdw9h0pnf89ea7tan","armando-lucas-correa-3otk","Armando Lucas Correa",[528,529],{"id":108,"name":109,"slug":110,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[531],{"id":300,"slug":301,"name":302,"position":303,"is_main_entry":18,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},{"pace":75,"complexity":7,"audience":78,"mood":533,"themes":535,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[162,81,534],"hopeful",[],{"key":537,"params":538,"works":539},"genre_mood",{"genre":33,"mood":80},[540,550,574],{"id":199,"slug":200,"title":201,"description":202,"primary_cover_url":203,"cover_blurhash":204,"first_publish_year":205,"community_rating_avg":139,"community_rating_count":140,"page_count":206,"authors":541,"genres":543,"series":546,"enrichment":547},[542],{"id":209,"slug":210,"name":211},[544,545],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":154,"name":155,"slug":156,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":75,"complexity":7,"audience":78,"mood":548,"themes":549,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,80],[],{"id":551,"slug":552,"title":553,"description":554,"primary_cover_url":555,"cover_blurhash":556,"first_publish_year":557,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":558,"authors":559,"genres":564,"series":568,"enrichment":569},"01kx2s1hzjkmx1y21e7rrn8a34","the-hangmans-daughter-hvrl","The hangman's daughter","In a Bavarian town ruled by superstition and strict law, Magdalena Kuisl is the daughter of the hangman — a position that carries both respect and revulsion. When her father's mysterious death sets off a chain of events, she must navigate a web of conspiracy, old grudges, and dark secrets to uncover what really happened. Set in 1659 with a prologue reaching back decades, this atmospheric historical mystery blends the grim reality of early modern execution law with a plot that keeps tightening toward its shocking conclusion.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2s1j0vxm576mq6nw4xr7m9.jpg?v=648b332846","LXHoB:Sg~qay9FX8s:j[^+j[Rjof",2008,450,[560],{"id":561,"slug":562,"name":563},"01kx2s1j0chrnw59hwkmd1sq4g","oliver-potzsch-17cu","Oliver Pötzsch",[565,566,567],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":330,"name":331,"slug":332,"is_fiction":18},{"id":154,"name":155,"slug":156,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":373,"complexity":7,"audience":78,"mood":570,"themes":571,"setting_period":7,"summary":554,"content_warnings":7},[80,81,82],[572,573],"morally-grey","revenge",{"id":575,"slug":576,"title":577,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":578,"cover_blurhash":579,"first_publish_year":580,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":581,"authors":582,"genres":587,"series":591,"enrichment":592},"01kx2gkx71k4zrd8wyqxgb32k6","the-borgia-betrayal-syyd","The Borgia Betrayal","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2gkx7tzc0ysyg3qtej3anf.jpg?v=bc1feb8aa1","LDEB.]0M4p%M~A58IVx[59%1xXt6",2011,416,[583],{"id":584,"slug":585,"name":586},"01kx2gkx7n5xtf85ky6ra5csx5","sara-poole-ojkq","Sara Poole",[588,589,590],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":330,"name":331,"slug":332,"is_fiction":18},{"id":154,"name":155,"slug":156,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":373,"complexity":7,"audience":78,"mood":593,"themes":594,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[80,81,82],[],{"key":596,"params":597,"works":598},"genre",{"genre":33},[599,620,632,651,674,694],{"id":600,"slug":601,"title":602,"description":603,"primary_cover_url":604,"cover_blurhash":605,"first_publish_year":205,"community_rating_avg":139,"community_rating_count":140,"page_count":606,"authors":607,"genres":612,"series":616,"enrichment":617},"01kx23p40x902ff02kygvvhmmv","portrait-of-a-lady-povu","Portrait of a Lady","The legendary Renaissance man and amateur sleuth is back in this exciting follow-up to The Queen's Gambit. As court engineer to the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci turns his superior mind to a variety of pursuits-from painting to solving the occasional murder. After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward, Contessa Caterina. This should be easy enough, given that \"Dino\" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. Delfina is soon torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and her growing feelings for Gregorio, the handsome captain of the Duke's guard. But if what the Contessa's tarot cards foretold is correct, Delfina might be destined to lose her heart...and perhaps her life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23p418xxk1bydn9p3nvew1.jpg?v=47e674603b","LEHdEH*zw[K0.9R6}qV@0:E%-SIW",336,[608],{"id":609,"slug":610,"name":611},"01kmfj3a9b18p1c086j12te79k","diane-a-s-stuckart-yu24","Diane A. S. 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The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man--except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a young anatomist from Philadelphia. Thomas arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, where his unconventional methods only add to his outsider status. Against his better judgment he agrees to examine Sir Edward's corpse. But it is not only the dead, but also the living, to whom he must apply the keen blade of his intellect. And the deeper the doctor's investigations go, the greater the risk that he will be consigned to the ranks of the corpses he studies. . . Advance praise for Tessa Harris and The Anatomist's Apprentice '\"Tessa Harris has delivered a deftly plotted debut. Just when you think the puzzle is solved, she reveals yet another surprising twist which leaves you marveling at her ingenuity.\" --Carol Carr, author of India Black \"CSI meets The Age of Reason with a well-drawn, intriguing cast of characters, headed by the brilliant Dr. Thomas Silkstone. Full of twists and turns, Tessa Harris's debut mystery can confound the most adept reader. Vivid details pulled me right into the world of early forensic sleuthing. A page turner!\" --Karen Harper \"Tessa Harris takes us on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of anatomist Thomas Silkstone, a place where death holds no mystery and all things are revealed.\" –Victoria Thompson, author of Murder on Sisters' Row \"From dissection table to drawing room, this visit to late eighteenth-century England is chock full of intriguing twists and turns. 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The latest request for help from Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin--from the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less--is undeniably intriguing: The bodies of two men have been found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor. The identity of the other seems lost in time, although his faded velvet attire marks him as gentleman of the eighteenth century. To Sebastian's consternation, the last person to see the Bishop alive was Miss Hero Jarvis, a woman whose already strained relationship with St. Cyr has been complicated by a brief, unexpectedly passionate encounter. It also soon becomes obvious that her powerful father has reasons of his own for wanting the Bishop out of the way. In an investigation that leads from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of whitehall, Sebastian amasses a list of suspects that ranges from some of the Prince Regent's closest cronies to William Franklin, embittered son of famous American patriot Ben Franklin. Each step Sebastian takes toward the killer brings him closer to a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who--and what--he really is.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7e8y59w94ndtt2cbnddb1c.jpg?v=5ed6c9ed98","L6S$ov_3~q?bM{WBWBof9FWBxuof",342,[683],{"id":684,"slug":685,"name":686},"01kr67tafkxfx49jn6sn0jysm9","c-s-harris-oaml","C. S. 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This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould-one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas Pitt series-who appears here as a lively young woman, the ultimate aristocrat who can trace her blood to half the royal houses of Europe. It's Christmas and the Berkshire countryside lies wrapped in winter chill. But the well-born guests who have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of innocent intrigue and passionate romance are warmed by roaring fires and candlelight, holly and mistletoe, good wine and gorgeously wrapped gifts. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one-not even that clever young aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould-anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this light-hearted holiday house party. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and another is ostracized, held partly responsible for the shocking turn of events. To expiate her guilt, Gwendolen Kilmuir sets out for the Scottish Highlands, hoping to explain to the dead girl's mother the circumstances surrounding the sorrowful act-and to bring her back to England for the funeral. Gwendolen's sole companion on this nightmarish journey is Vespasia. As Vespasia learns more about the victim and the ugly forces that shaped her desperate deed, she understands the heartbreaking truth of the tragedy.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7desa0h7qf69hsdzzxs044.jpg?v=9911b1785c","LASY?Zae_N~W^kt7NZRj%2xtM{IU",186,[703],{"id":704,"slug":705,"name":706},"01kkbfwh2ydkjt49w79a5qqqnf","anne-perry-smbo","Anne Perry",[708,712,713],{"id":709,"name":710,"slug":711,"is_fiction":18},208,"Cozy Mystery","cozy-mystery",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":115,"name":116,"slug":117,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":75,"complexity":7,"audience":78,"mood":716,"themes":717,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,127],[],[]]