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Girl in the Blue Coat

By Monica Hesse

Middle Grade

Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the…

Ghost Wars

By Steve Coll

Biographies and Memoirs

Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert programme against Soviet troops from 1979-89, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of…

Ghosts of Honolulu

By Mark Harmon

Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only…

Ghosts of War

By Ryan Smithson

This YA military memoir recounts a nineteen-year-old Army engineer's tour of duty in Iraq: "profoundly moving . . . poignant, and often harrowing" ( Kirkus, starred review). Ryan Smithson was an ordinary teenager until he witnessed the devastation of September…