Dan Smith
1) Red winter
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
December 1930, Ukraine. Luka, a war veteran, wants a quiet life with his family. Their village is hidden from the advancing Soviet brutality--until the stranger arrives pulling a sled bearing a terrible cargo. When the villagers' fear turns deadly, they think they've saved themselves. But their anger has cursed them: a little girl has vanished. In these frozen lands, Luka has the skills to find the one who stole the child. With his sons, he sets out...
3) Boy X
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both--and the only person he is sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age named Isabel.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1941 twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, having a German plane crash near your house is exciting, but when twelve-year-old Peter Dixon and his friend Kim find a wounded German airman, Peter is faced with a dilemma--should he help take care of the man as Kim wants to do, or report him to the soldiers searching for him?
6) Big game
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Every boy in Oskari's remote mountain village must face a ritual hunt on his thirteenth birthday--the Trial--to become a man. It's Oskari's turn, and whatever animal he kills--if he succeeds--will symbolize who he will become. But the idea of spending a night alone in the forest makes him queasy, and the ceremonial bow he has to use is too big for him. Not long after he sets out, Oskari comes across a strange creature in the woods, emerging in eerie...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, an essential tool for understanding the modern Middle East The Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never been more important. In this essential guide to the region and its politics, Dan Smith unravels the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. With the acute and fair-minded analysis readers have come to expect from him, Smith...
11) Square-serif
Author
Series
Graphic arts abc ; 1
Publisher
A. Kroch & son
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
12) Battle for Oz
Author
Publisher
Pirate Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A new Wizard is enthroned in the Emerald City but his intentions are purely wicked. Heartless Tin-Men soldiers police the lands while sinister Straw-Men assassins instill fear in those who oppose his will. Welcome to the Battle for Oz, a fantasy Plot Point setting for the award-winning Savage Worlds RPG." --
14) The Yes Men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed - hook, line and sinker - the Yes Men must up the satrical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.
