The Secret City

Author : Hugh Walpole
Publisher : McClelland and Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret City written by Hugh Walpole and published by McClelland and Stewart. This book was released on 1919 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based upon Walpole's experiences in Russia, 1914-1917. Set in early 20th century Russia, this novel is the story of John Durward who meets Henry Bohun when the latter lodges with Nicholas and Vera Petrovich and Vera's sister Nina. Vera encourages Bohun's interest in Nina who longs to leave home. Uncle Semyonov turns up with a sense of impending trouble, while in Petrograd (St. Petersburg, Leningrad) the revolution threatens.

Author : Carol Emshwiller
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1616960302
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret City written by Carol Emshwiller and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret City is a proud enclave carved in stone. Hidden high in a mountain range, it is a worn citadel protecting a lost culture. It harbors a handful of aliens stranded on Earth, waiting for rescue and running out of time. Over years of increasing poverty, an exodus to the human world has become their only chance for survival. The aliens are gradually assimilating not as a discrete culture but as a source of cheap labor. But the sudden arrival of ill-prepared rescuers will touch off divided loyalties, violent displacement, and star-crossed love. As unlikely human allies are pitted against xenophobic aliens, the stage is set for a final standoff at the Secret City.

Author : James Kirchick
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627792333
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret City written by James Kirchick and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022” “Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history.

Author : Hugh Walpole
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret City written by Hugh Walpole and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732641465
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret City written by Horace Walpole and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Secret City by Horace Walpole

Author : Diane Fanning
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780109601
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabotage in the Secret City written by Diane Fanning and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become president, the Allied Forces are closing in on Berlin and the research scientists at the secret facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, are doing their bit to bring the war to as swift a conclusion as possible. But does the end justify the means? Libby Clark has mixed feelings about the horror she and her fellow scientists are labouring to unleash on the citizens of Japan – and it seems she’s not the only one to have doubts. A campaign of small acts of sabotage convinces Libby that one of their number is deliberately trying to delay the mission. But when the pranks turn deadly, Libby is forced once again to turn undercover sleuth in order to unmask the traitor within, prevent further deaths and keep the focus on ending World War II.

Author : Diane Fanning
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1780107773
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treason in the Secret City written by Diane Fanning and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “briskly paced and smartly written” World War II mystery set in Tennessee, featuring research chemist and amateur sleuth Libby Clark (Booklist). May 30, 1944. In the middle of the night, Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin’s cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby, with her clear-headed scientific mind, can help prove her innocence. Libby, a chemist at a secret military facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee is committed to pursuing the truth wherever it takes her. Libby soon uncovers the immoral Dr. Hansrote, who has tricked Frannie into her treachery. But the evil at Oak Ridge runs deeper. And Libby not only finds herself in conflict with the authorities, but also caught in the crosshairs of a deadly cabal of spies, profiteers, and unscrupulous collaborators. Can Libby survive the confluence of challenges? Or will one of them fashion a trap she cannot escape? Treason in the Secret City is the second book in the Libby Clark Mysteries, which also includes Scandal in the Secret City and Sabotage in the Secret City. “This sequel to Scandal in the Secret City, which has some basis in fact, is faster-paced than Fanning’s debut while maintaining the 1940s atmosphere.” —Booklist

Author : Diane Fanning
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780105681
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandal in the Secret City written by Diane Fanning and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby Clark takes a feminist approach to science—and solving a murder—in this “gripping puzzler of a mystery” set in WWII Tennessee (Library Journal). Oak Ridge, Tennessee is known as the Secret City. It rose seemingly overnight in 1942, built by the US government. No one was quite sure what its purpose was, but there was certainly something going on . . . Libby Clark, a gutsy Bryn Mawr graduate, is determined to find her place as a scientist in a world where women are thought better suited to housework and marriage. As the only female scientist in the top-secret facility, Libby is excited to begin what she believes is important government research. But she soon discovers that something more sinister is afoot. One frosty night she finds the dead body of her roommate’s sister sprawled behind the bleachers. The police don’t seem to think finding the killer is important, so it’s up to Libby to make sense of the situation. Aided by a band of like-minded scientists, Libby follows every possible lead . . . even as they take her to a shocking conclusion. Scandal in the Secret City is the first book in the Libby Clark Mysteries, which also includes Treason in the Secret City and Sabotage in the Secret City. “Fanning re-creates the atmosphere at Oak Ridge effectively, and her exploration of the ethical issues surrounding security are timely today. A promising new series.” —Booklist “Readers will be engrossed by . . . [the] authentic details.” —Library Journal, starred review “An intriguing change from Fanning . . . bolstered by thought-provoking details of the obstacles women faced in the wartime workforce.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Thea Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545393825
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thea Stilton and the Secret City (Thea Stilton #4) written by Thea Stilton and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geronimo's adventurous sister Thea narrates this fabulous adventure that's packed with action, mystery, and friendship!In this amazing adventure, Thea's friends the Thea Sisters head to Peru, where a good friend of Paulina's is in danger. There, the five mice climb the Andes mountains in search of a mysterious treasure that's hidden in the Secret City of the Incas. Readers will love following the clues to help the Thea Sisters solve the mystery!

Author : Chris Archer
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439368513
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret City written by Chris Archer and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spies. Underground tunnels. Old maps. New enemies. Pirate oaths. Hidden treasure. Endless danger. This series has real boy appeal. It has a fast pace, adventure, international intrigue, and more. George is fascinated by his family's legacy, the stories that link his ancestors to the infamous pirate Captain Kidd. But for 12 years, everyone has told him the stories are rumors. Now George has discovered the truth. And the truth is hidden in the web of tunnels mysteriously dug underneath his house in Manhattan. There are secrets to be revealed, friendships to be tested, and ancient injustices to be set right. George and his friends will sink deep underground to a secret city in search of treasure, but they'll find they aren't the only ones looking for it - and there's much more at stake.