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|  | | Convergence of Valor - The Men of the HL Hunley
A German spy infiltrates the Confederate Navy and uncovers advanced technology in development, a submarine.
From Chapter 1 - He heard the raspy breaths of the five other exhausted crankmen. Like him, they were physically spent from horsing the vessel four miles out and a mile back. No other sounds from the dark silence. No panic in the Hunley. No one clamored toward the hatchways for escape. No one screamed in fear of the possible death sentence they faced, ten fathoms under in a fragile tube. Silently they obeyed the code of valor. He leaned forward on his crank handle and rested for a moment. A sweat-laden, mixed odor of whiskey and acorn-shell, coffee-tainted stench oozed from every man | |  | | Havana's Secret
Sam Carter becomes part of a fledgling spy ring based in Havana and discovers the back story to the Spanish American War.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1897. The world had changed. Spain’s iron-fisted Prime Minister was assassinated, creating a power vacuum in Europe. The United States Navy under the guidance of a brash Navy Secretary, Theodore Roosevelt, was flexing his military muscle, and desperately wanted Spain out of Cuba. Sam Carter, the son of a Confederate submariner who never returned from the sea, thought he understood the rules working for the fledgling Secret Service branch of the U.S. Treasury. When he was assigned to Havana as | |  | | Telmenu Saimnieks - The Lord of Telmeni
Set at the brink of World War I, Telmenu Saimnieks unfolds as a strongly character-based family saga that follows Voldemars and his wife, Otilija through the world that was falling apart around them. As the World War concludes, Voldemars returns to become a patriot for his country, and to resolve his position in his father's heart.
Janis Vechi folded his hands over the carved handle of his pitchfork, leaned his wispy frame forward, and perused his farm's wind- swept, budding rye fields. Grain extended forever, dipping and rising like an open sea along the rolling terrain. Resting quietly below and to the west of the land's contours, spread the placid, sapphire cover of Bauzis, a natural reservoir and fish supply. Across the water and nestled among freshly scented spruce and birches along the far bank, liepa trees swayed, teeming with tiny sallow clusters of wintergreen scented blossoms amidst glossy, heart-shaped |
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Galveston, 1900 Indignities, The Arrival
by N Brown
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 Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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