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"1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary codebreaking machines and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Beth's shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and she becomes one of the Park's few female...
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"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 5
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English
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
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2020.
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"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident,...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 4
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English
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Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 23
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Can the secret weapon in Idaville's war on crime really be a ten-year-old boy in sneakers? It can if it's Encyclopedia Brown! Encyclopedia is back with ten all-new mysteries to solve, along with the help of his partner, Sally Kimball, the prettiest and toughest girl in the fifth grade. They'll have to face Bugs Meany, who's up to his old tricks, and Wilford Wiggins, who's still dreaming up new schemes to trick the kids of Idaville out of their money....
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
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Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Paris, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Benjamin Franklin.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 21
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English
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Encyclopedia Brown continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 17
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English
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America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 26
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Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 16
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The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 5
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The town's ten year old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries. The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book, giving the reader a chance to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 3
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English
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Further adventures of Idaville's Leroy Brown who solves ten intriguing cases. The solutions are explained at the end of the book.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 8
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English
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Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 24
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Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
17) Trust no one
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Amy and Dan discover there is a Vesper mole in their innermost circle. They need to smoke out the traitor before the next hostage dies.
18) Shatterproof
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Vesper One commands Dan and his older sister Amy to steal the Golden Jubilee, one of the world's largest diamonds. What Dan and Amy do not know is that the Jubilee is a setup.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 1
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English
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Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 11
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English
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The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the 10-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
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