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Pub. Date
[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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Language
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...
Author
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
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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...
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English
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When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok--Hick--is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship that ends only with both women's deaths in the 1960s--all of...
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Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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After returning to America, Maggie Hope undertakes an investigation into the murder of one of Eleanor Roosevelts aides, in which she must use her code-breaking and espionage skills to outmaneuver a dangerous Nazi plot.
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Series
Language
English
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It's 1939 and a young White House staffer, congressman's son Philip Garber, has been found dead in the apartment of Pamela Rush-Hodgeborne, one of the First Lady's secretaries. The obvious suspect: English-born Pamela, who mixed lover Philip a fatal old-fashioned. (Cyanide in the bitters.) But Eleanor is sure that Pamela is innocent - despite suggestions that Pamela and Philip pulled off a diamond heist together back in England.
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
History pals volume 2
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her.
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
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Description
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.
15) A royal murder
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In the 15th novel featuring Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady travels to the Bahamas to prevent the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from turning the island into a German base, a mission complicated by a murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Shirley Davenport is as much a patriot as her four brothers. She, too, wants to aid her country in the war efforts and joins a new branch of the Coast Guard for single women called SPARs. At the end of basic training, Captain Webber commissions her back home in Maine under the ruse of a dishonorable discharge to help uncover a plot against the First Lady. Shirley soon discovers nothing is as it seems. Why do the people she loves want to harm the First...
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"A Thomas Dunne book." A blackmailer is found dead in the White House rose garden and Mrs. Roosevelt soon finds that many men had a motive to kill this society matron.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Roosevelt must walk a fine line between defending the country's interests and offending her guest when Madame Chiang Kai-Shek comes to visit the White House in 1943, but her job becomes much more difficult when a Chinese shoe salesman is found murdered in the Map Room.
20) Lucy: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of Franklin Roosevelt's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and their reacquaintance years later
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