The One & Only by Emily Giffin:
Centering her life on the successful Walker
family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a
less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in
question by the death of the family's mother.
Resistant by Michael Palmer: Dr. Lou Welcome must stop an epidemic, save his best friend,
and uncover a shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors that has infiltrated
society and is using health institutions as hostages. Check Availability
Sniper’s Honor by Stephen Hunter: Bob Lee
Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla
"Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she
disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy
Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old
Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary
female sniper, who was once dubbed Die Weisse Hexe--The White Witch--and lauded
by enemies and comrades alike. Mili's luxurious blonde hair and statuesque
figure belied her fierce resolve to avenge the deaths of her husband and family
by joining Stalin's Army and using her sharpshooting expertise to defeat
Hitler's organization--ideally from the top down. There is very little on
record for Reilly to mine for her profile, which only makes her want to dig
deeper, enlisting her friend and former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to parse
out the scarce details of Mili's astonishing military service. The more Swagger
learns about the circumstances of Mili's last mission, the more he reveres the
beautiful Russian heroine and longs to have known a fellow sniper with such
courage and skill. And the more he believes her disappearance was no accident,
and that Mili Petrova, while an essential player in Stalin's master plan, was
merely a pawn in some larger conspiracy. But why would the Russian government
go to such great lengths to erase one of their own decorated, legendary
soldiers from history? And why, when Swagger joins Kathy Reilly on a
researchtrip to the Carpathian Mountains, is someone trying to kill them for
what they might find? Check Availability
The Monuments Men (DVD): An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked
by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi
thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped
behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything
as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men,
as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk
their lives to protect mankind's greatest achievements. Check Availability
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