Books

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Angry Hills, The Angry Hills, The Leon Uris Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife's inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave before German troops invade, Morri… OL14847859W
Mitla Pass Mitla Pass Leon Uris Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated… OL14847871W
The Haj The Haj Leon Uris The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by American author Leon Uris about a Palestinian Arab family caught up in the area's historic events of the 1920s–1950s as witnessed by Ishmael, the youngest son.… OL14847872W
Battle cry Battle cry Leon Uris Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus.Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at wa… OL14847874W
Topaz Topaz Leon Uris On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelli… OL14847878W
QB VII QB VII Leon Uris Sir Adam Kelno has spent his whole life covering up his past. After his political beliefs land him in Jadwiga, Poland’s worst concentration camp, Kelno earns privileges with the Nazis by performing i… OL14847879W
Words of Ages Words of Ages Steffens, Lincoln,O'Sullivan, John L.,Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,John Dos Passos,Sloan Wilson,Jonathan Edwards,William Bradford,Anne Moody,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,John Greenleaf Whittier,Taggard, Genevieve,John Woolman,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Upton Sinclair,Dorothy Parker,Leon Uris,Denise Levertov,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Anne Bradstreet,Edith Wharton,Elie Wiesel,Annie Dillard,George Fitzhugh,Henry James,Robert Beverley,Jack Kerouac,Arthur Miller,Hamlin Garland,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Abraham Cahan,Willa Cather,Meridel Le Sueur,Zora Neale Hurston,Tom Wolfe,Walt Whitman,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Hershey,Philip A. Roth,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Tim O'Brien,John Steinbeck,Benjamin Franklin,John Jay,Frederick Douglass,John Smith,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,Harriet A. Jacobs,Bob Dylan,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Adams,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mary Crow Dog,Herman Melville,Close Up Foundation,William Tecumseh Sherman,Philip Morin Freneau,David Halberstam,E. B. White,Robert Olen Butler,Toni Morrison,Thomas Paine,Jose De Diego,Ralph Ellison,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James D. Houston,Meriwether Lewis,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Abigail Adams,Countee Cullen,Nat Love,Winthrop, John,Thomas Jefferson,Black Elk,Ernest Howard Crosby,Sandra Cisneros,Hart Crane,Rebecca Harding Davis,Martha Gellhorn,Olaudah Equiano,Clifford Odets,Malcolm X,Juan Nepomuceno Seguín,Francis E. Watkins Harper,Judy Brady,Booker T. Washington,Angelina Weld Grimké,William Clark Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Planta… OL14876177W
O'Hara's choice O'Hara's choice Leon Uris The son of a legendary Civil War marine, Zachary O'Hara struggles to keep the marines a viable part of the nation's military and falls in love with heiress Amanda Kerr, a relationship that is threate… OL15148160W
Redemption Redemption Leon Uris Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass, continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom… OL15150557W
Trinity Trinity Leon Uris The book tells the story of the intertwining lives of the following families: the Larkins and O'Neills, Catholic hill farmers from the fictional town of Ballyutogue in County Donegal; the Macleods, P… OL15390291W
Les lions de Mitla Les lions de Mitla Leon Uris Ce roman d'action qu'anime un héros fatigué, qui pourrait bien être l'auteur lui-même, se situe dans l'axe du fameux ##Exodus## (1958) dont il poursuit la douloureuse évocation à travers les heurs et… OL27737176W