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THE INFORMER by Craig Nova — Berlin in 1930 is a city of dark paranoia and covert power struggles, where violence can erupt at any moment. The Brownshirts dominate the streets, but the Red Front is building its insurgence. Gaelle, a beautiful but desperate young prostitute with a scar across one side of her face, trades in something far more powerful — and dangerous — than sex: information. To possess her, men will do more than pay — they will tell her secrets. What Gaelle wants is protection. Felix, a 16-year-old boy with a lame foot, negotiates Gaelle’s price, accompanies her in limousines when she feels threatened, and reminds her to take care of herself. But can he really keep her from harm?
CAPITOL BETRAYAL by William Bernhardt — Kincaid is in a meeting with the president in the Oval Office when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground PEOC — Presidential Emergency Operations Center — built to withstand a nuclear blast, but vulnerable to another kind of attack. Inside the bunker, defense specialists realize that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. The dictator’s message is clear: Heed his demands or suffer unfathomable destruction.
MARK TWAIN’S OTHER WOMAN: THE HIDDEN STORY OF HIS FINAL YEARS by Laura Skandera Trombley — Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of 34 years and how those experiences affected him, personally and professionally. For nearly a century, it was believed that Twain went to his death a beloved, wisecracking iconoclastic American, undeterred by life’s sorrows and challenges. Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, suspected that there had to be more to the story than the cultivated, carefully constructed version that had been intact for so long. She went in search of the one woman whom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain’s life during those final years and who possibly held the answers to her questions about his life and writings.
THE BEATLES ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO ON TOUR AND ON STAGE by Andy Neill — Culturally, the Beatles were a global phenomenon, changing all facets of popular music for good, but not just because they were a band that made great recordings. How big a part did performing in concert play? Would they have achieved what they did without an early grounding in the dance halls and clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg? After their first year as a headline-grabbing attraction, why did The Beatles soon tire of the relentless pace of Beatlemania? Through print and images from the DAILY MIRROR archive, this book answers these questions, examining in detail the Beatles as a live act between the key Beatlemania years of 1963-1966.
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