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[2022]
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
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English
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"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
It is 1943 and upon the eve of the Trident Conference-a highly classified council attended by FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower. When a body is discovered in the Lincoln Bedroom while the conferees are still in session, Eleanor Roosevelt knows that in order to keep the murder a secret from the prying eyes of the press, not to mention foreign agents, she must solve it herself.
4) White Houses
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelts first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as shes known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Language
English
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October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire--the fastest fighter aircraft in the world--to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in...
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Just after the President and First Lady settle into the White House in 1933, the body of a White House police officer is found at the foot of the President's bedroom door, and Eleanor Roosevelt feels it is her responsibility to solve the case without drawing the public's attention.
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
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When a pretty, young Press Office secretary is bludgeoned to death in the Blue Room of the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt begins to investigate, questioning a house full of visiting Russian diplomats. Reprint. NYT. AB.
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt takes on the role of a sleuth when she decides to seek justice for housekeeper Sara Carter, a young woman who has been accused of murdering wealthy Judge Horace Blackwell in his White House suite.
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