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Rachel Cutler, sędzia z Atlanty, kocha swoją pracę i dzieci. Jest rozwiedziona, ale utrzymuje dobre kontakty z byłym mężem, Paulem. Wszystko się komplikuje, kiedy w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach umiera jej ojciec, zostawiając po sobie trop do rozwiązania tajemnicy Bursztynowej Komnaty. Jak głosi legenda i niektóre źródła historyczne, skarb został przejęty przez nazistów po napaści na Związek Radziecki. Rachel rozpaczliwie pragnie...
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"Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey Deschamps sits at her type-x machine, tediously transcribing decrypted signals from the German Army, doing her part to assist the British war effort. Halfway across the world, Hitler's armies are marching into Leningrad, leaving a trail of destruction and pillaging the country's most treasured artworks, including the famous Amber Room-the eighth wonder of the world. As reports begin filtering...
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Trish Maguire mysteries volume 5
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Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the twentieth century.
Taking a crash course in the murkier aspects of the art world, Trish is determined to unlock...
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 16
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A lost manuscript. A savage murder. A deadly secret. While on a business trip to the UK, Ben Hope makes an impulse decision to attend a college reunion at his former university, Oxford. There he meets an old friend, Nick, now an internationally-renowned classical musician. But storm clouds are soon once again brewing on Ben's horizon. After Nick's brutal murder in an apparent home invasion robbery, Ben is drawn into the mystery of a missing music...
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Can Hawkins cut through the fog of war in time to stop a Nazi plot? Forty stolen masterpieces. Two continents. One man. Roy Hawkins. Sometimes who you're fighting is less than important than what you're fighting for. Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters sixteen months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works...
11) The red moth
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As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth.
13) Light
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In Kalastia, books are burning. The new government, led by power-hungry General Malin, is determined to rewrite history. To renowned artist Arda Kalev, the situation seems hopeless. When orders are given to destroy all the art in the National Gallery, including Arda's precious statue Light, Arda must decide if freedom is worth fighting-and dying-for--Cover.
14) Getting taken
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Getting even volume 3
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"While freelance writer Robyn Guthrie settles into her new home, which came with a few surprises, she learns her mother Lizzie, drama queen of Dryden Manor Assisted Living, has one of her own--a new boyfriend, Lionel. When he dies suddenly, leaving a pulp fiction novel in Lizzie's care, Robyn and Lizzie soon realize he was not all he appeared to be. Lionel's mysterious past is buried in the book along with a last, desperate clue that may lead to the...
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Had Stefan Zurowski made a deal with the devil? But it's his chance to return and restore the German devastation to his family estate, using the Jeweled Crucifix as leverage. He and members of his American household overcome dangers on sea and land to reach Domani z Camin, his family's Polish Estate. The travelers experience fear, discomfort, and romance before Stefan's objective is achieved and they can return to America. To Stefan's dismay Sophia...
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