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Well, it isn't theft, Stellan Nieves tells himself, not when you're stealing from a crook. Stellan, a married mid-twenties Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan "Squeezebox" Koväevi¿. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox's warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it prove...

Addie Lang, secretary to the infamous East German spymaster, Markus Wolf, does the unthinkable: she copies a classified document. Her impulsive act incurs the wrath of the regime and pulls in the KGB and an underground evangelical group. An unprecedented manhunt for Addie and her boyfriend generates electronic state chatter that catches the attention of the CIA, which subsequently sneaks an agent into the country and offers Addie a deal: her f...

For Sabrina Hamdi, a modern, young, and attractive member of Algeria's classe moyenne supérieure, life is good, until the uprising knocks on her door. Literally. French security forces whisk her away and toss her into a notorious prison. With a now white-hot hatred of all things French, she devotes herself to ridding Algeria of colonial power. Luc Jaundreau, a battle-hardened French Foreign Legion veteran of the brutal Indochina war, hopes f...

A transformative novel of the Great Depression, both sorrowful and uplifting, full of impossible-to-forget characters, Nowhere Special to Go follows a young man and his dog as he takes to the rails in search of work and somewhere to belong. Pete will travel across the Great Plains and witness the unimaginative horror of a dust storm, he'll find friendship and kindness in transient camps. He'll look on in wonder at the majesty of the Mississipp...

. On the eve of WWII, three former freedom fighters arrive in Germany to do the unthinkable: kill an SS officer. American idealists Billy Lachance and Lum Del Luca join forces with German socialist Josef Weiss and plunge deep into the greater Reich. With single-minded determination, they search for Rolf von Huber to repay him for violating the laws of war during the Spanish Civil War. Escaping the killing fields of Spain, the three make th...

Merriam Press Historical Fiction Series First Edition 2017 Ainslie Souter, a Scottish highwayman, couldn't care less whether Protestants or Catholics rule the world. He's barely escaped an English noose. Now he fights as a mercenary for the Royal House of Sweden. When things settle down at home he'll return. Hippolito Costello, a fiery Spanish priest, accompanies Catholic forces. He has no hesitation in using his Inquisition training to help h...

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