As the residents of Dresden struggle to survive a harsh winter two years after the city's firebombing, Max Heller investigates the murder of a Russian officer found with a backpack containing another man's head.

From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown.

In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel

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Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set that illustrates why the United States fought in WWII. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.

Uncommon valor in the line of duty and unconditional devotion in the name of love are the salient qualities of the daring men and women who risk it all in the heart-pounding thrillers of New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann. Crafted with precision and power, her characters come alive with a depth of emotion few writers have achieved. Now, with Breaking Point, Brockmann breaks even further through the pack and delivers a stunning payload.
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Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.

"For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany--where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier--to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral"--

Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

U.S. Army Air Corp pilots hunt the skies of World War II Europe for the most dangerous weapon the Germans have in the air, the Me262, the first operational jet fighter. Two brothers, one a Thunderbolt pilot and one a B-17 tail gunner, face off against their nemesis on the German side, the first jet ace in history who just might have had a hand in the death of their father in the First World War.

"The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal In the late 1500s a Nuremberg man named Frantz Schmidt began to do something utterly remarkable for his era: he started keeping a journal. But what makes Schmidt even more compelling to us is his day job. For forty-five years, Schmidt was an efficient and prolific public executioner, employed by the state to extract confessions and put...

Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.