A true story of code breakers during the second world war. Silk refers to the material used for recording key information and cyanide refers to the suicide pills that agents carried with them.

Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Marks, Leo

Biographies & Memoirs

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris."An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times

Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China

Jung, Chang

Community & Culture

The Constant Princess

Literature & Fiction

Philippa. Gregory

Genre Fiction

Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and THE QUEEN'S FOOL Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart -- Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen...Philippa Gregory blends passion, personalities and politics in this stunning novel of the Tudor court and a country divided.

The Virgin's Lover

A New York Times Bestseller -- Made into a Miramax film starring Scarlett Johansson which was released in February 2008. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman.

The Other Queen

This Book Needs No Title: Paradoxes, Labyrinths and Conundrums

Smullyan, Raymond M.

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina   When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna. Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna -- and himself.

Gypsy Madonna

SANTA MONTEFIORE

Contemporary

The Other Family

Trollope,Joanna

Live From The Battlefield - From Vietnam To Baghdad, 35 Years In The World's War Zones

ARNETT, PETER

Kill and Tell

Linda Howard

Lynda Howard

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