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The boy with the star tattoo : a novel / by Carner, Talia,author.(CARDINAL)486110;
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes to Spain, leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid. By the time Claudette is able to return years later, her son has disappeared. Unbeknown to his anguished mother, the boy has been rescued by a Youth Aliyah agent searching for Jewish orphans. 1968: When Israeli naval officer Daniel Yarden recruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation in Cherbourg, France, he can't imagine that he is the target of the agenda of the twenty-year-old grieving the recent loss of her fiancé in a drowned submarine. Sharon suspects that Danny's past in Youth Aliyah may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her boss's extraordinary journey as an orphan in a quaint French village all the way to Israel. As Danny focuses on the future of his people and on executing a daring, crucial operation under France's radar, he is unaware that the obsessed Sharon follows the breadcrumbs of clues across the country to find her answers. But she is wholly unprepared for the dilemma she must face upon solving the puzzle"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Jews; Mothers and sons; World War, 1939-1945; Orphans;

Sisters of night and fog [large print] / by Robuck, Erika,author.(CARDINAL)399565;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-672)."Set across the European theatre of WWII, Sisters of Night and Fog tells the story of two women whose clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbruck concentration camp. A striking reminder of how deeply we are all connected, which forces us to ask, 'Could I have done what they did?'"--"1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes, Virginia d'Albert-Lake decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. Nineteen-year-old Violette Szabo has seen the Nazi' evil up close and is desperate to fight them. She enters the radar of Britain's secret war organization--the Special Operations Executive--and a fire is lit in her as she decides how much she's willing to risk to enlist. As Virginia and Violette navigate resistance, their clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The decisions they make will change their lives, and the world, forever"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Spy fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Large print books.; Szabo, Violette, 1921-1945; Hall, Virginia, 1906-1982; Albert-Lake, Virginia d', 1910-1997; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; World War, 1939-1945; Women spies; World War, 1939-1945;

The gathering wind : Hurricane Sandy, the sailing ship Bounty, and a courageous rescue at sea / by Freeman, Gregory A.(CARDINAL)656707;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288).Survivors -- Tall ships -- Future captains of America -- Black sheep -- More than worried -- A new life -- Innocence -- Superstorm -- A westerly turn -- Danger tomorrow -- Graveyard of the Atlantic -- Kind of surreal -- Don't lose me -- Black velvet curtains -- We're still here -- Fighting for dawn -- A last lesson -- We see you -- I promised -- Off the radar -- Eerie -- Where's everybody else? -- Rescues -- We're missing three -- We can't leave -- A long ride -- Hope -- I'm so sorry -- Blue ribbon and a reef knot -- Investigation -- Revelations -- Never cross the t -- Recklessly cavalier.Recounts the daring mission by the Coast Guard to rescue the crew of a replica of the HMS Bounty that tried to outrun Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 but failed, capsizing in an area known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Subjects: Bounty (Ship : 1960); United States. Coast Guard; Shipwrecks; Search and rescue operations; Hurricane Sandy, 2012.;

Midnight alias : a killer instincts novel / by Kennedy, Elle.(CARDINAL)590005;
An undercover DEA agent has gone off the radar. Suspecting an internal mole, the government needs Luke Dubois and his elite team of operatives to recover their man, and the New Orleans native thinks he's found his way inside the dark underbelly of Manhattan: Olivia Taylor, the girlfriend of a mob boss and the sexiest woman he's ever laid eyes on. His new mission objective? Get past Olivia's defenses and convince her to take a chance--on him. All Olivia wanted was to finish law school and live a normal life, but that dream was shattered when one dangerous night put her deeply in a mobster's debt. Now Luke and his team will help her escape--in exchange for intel on the missing agent. But Olivia doesn't anticipate her intense attraction to the reckless Louisiana charmer or that she'll be forced to risk everything--including her heart.
Subjects: Gangster fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; United States. Drug Enforcement Administration; Man-woman relationships; Undercover operations;

Beyond survival : strategies and stories from the transformative justice movement / by Dixon, Ejeris,editor.; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi,1975-editor.(CARDINAL)786933; Gumbs, Alexis Pauline,1982-author of foreword.(CARDINAL)853800;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction." In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms--from toolkits to personal essays--to delve deeply into the "how to" of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations. Featuring writing, tools and interviews by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kai Cheng Thom, Amita Swadhin, Audrey Huntley, Amanda Aguilar Shank, Janae E Bonsu of BYP100, Philly Stands Up (Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Qui Dorian, Bench Ansfield and Beth Blum), Creative Interventions, Trans Lifeline, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Oakland Power Projects, SOS Collective/Audre Lorde Project, Icarus Project/ Fireweed Collective, Raquel Lavina, Chris Lymbertos, RJ Maccani, Nathan Shara, Staci Haines, Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights, MIJENTE, Monica Sehovic Bowen Forrester, Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Elisabeth Marie Long, adrienne maree brown, Adrian Cole, Yalini Dream, Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba and Mimi Kim."--
Subjects: Restorative justice.; Social justice.;

Operation Shakespeare : the true story of an elite international sting / by Shiffman, John,author.(CARDINAL)590746;
Includes bibliographical references.Tbilisi, Georgia, and Iskandariyah, Iraq -- The lure (2004-2007). The storefront : Yardley, Pennsylvania ; The capitalist : Shiraz, Iran ; The captain : Suitland, Maryland ; The producer : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; The informant : London, England ; The bazaar : Dubai, United Arab Emirates ; Love and profit : Shiraz, Iran ; A warning : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Propositions : Shiraz, Iran ; The magician : Frankfurt, Germany ; "A hero with the Ministry of Defense" : Wilmington, Delaware ; Shakespeare : Wilmington, Delaware ; Contagious enthusiasm : Shiraz, Iran -- The sting (2007). Mother Georgia : Tbilisi, Georgia ; Arrival : Baku, Azerbaijan ; The magic show : Tbilisi, Georgia ; "They think the war is coming" : Tbilisi, Georgia ; "Very rich men" : Tbilisi, Georgia ; Takedown : Tbilisi, Georgia -- The secret prisoner (2007-2012). Coups and complications : Tbilisi, Georgia ; Extraction : Tbilisi, Georgia -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands."A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover operation--from Philadelphia to Shiraz to London to Beverly Hills to Tbilisi and Dubai. The sting is launched by an elite undercover Homeland Security unit created to stop the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, Pakistanis, and North Koreans from acquiring sophisticated American-made electronics capable of guiding missiles, jamming radar, and triggering countless weapons--from wireless IEDs to nuclear bombs. The US agents must outwit not only enemy brokers, but American manufacturers and global bankers too willing to put profit over national security. The three-year sting in Operation Shakespeare climaxes when the US agents lure the Iranian broker to a former Soviet republic with the promise of American-made radar, fighter-jet and missile components, then secretly drag him back to the United States, where he is held in secret for two years. The laptop the Iranian carries into the sting provides the CIA with a treasure trove, a virtual roadmap to Tehran's clandestine effort to obtain US military technology. Tenacious, richly detailed, broad in scope, and emotionally powerful--and boasting unprecedented access to the government agents fighting this shadow war, as well as the captured Iranian arms broker--Operation Shakespeare is a fast-paced and masterful account of the covert effort to preserve American military supremacy, and to protect US troops"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: United States. Department of Homeland Security.; Intelligence service; National security; Operation Shakespeare, 2004-2009.; Technology transfer; Terrorism; Undercover operations; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.;

Sentinels of fire : a novel / by Deutermann, P. T.(Peter T.),1941-(CARDINAL)348259;
"P.T. Deutermann's World War II Navy series began with the award-winning Pacific Glory, followed by the brilliantly reviewed Ghosts of Bungo Suido. His new novel Sentinels of Fire tells the tale of a lone destroyer, the USS Malloy, part of the Allied invasion forces attacking the island of Okinawa and the Japanese home islands. By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major ship a day to murderous swarms of kamikazes streaming out of Formosa and southern Japan. The radar picket line is the first defense and early warning against these hellish formations, but the Japanese direct special attention to these lone destroyers stationed north and west of Okinawa. One destroyer, the USS Malloy, faces an even more pressing issue when her Executive Officer Connie Miles begins to realize that the ship's much-admired Captain Pudge Tallmadge is losing his mind under the relentless pressure of the attacks. Set against the blazing gun battles created by the last desperate offensive of the Japanese, Executive Officer Miles and the ship's officers grapple with the consequences of losing their skipper's guidance--and perhaps the ship itself and everyone on board. Vividly authentic, historically accurate, and emotionally compelling, Sentinels of Fire is military adventure at its best, by an author whose career as a Navy captain informs every page"--
Subjects: War fiction.; Sea fiction.; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

Sirocco / by Haynes, Dana,author.(CARDINAL)498767;
"A serial bomber is wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Former New York City cop Michael Finnigan and former Spanish assassin Katalin Fiero--the brains behind St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a covert bounty-hunting operation based in Cyprus--may be the only ones who can stop the carnage. The partners have a reputation for tracking down the worst of the worst in international crime, all while staying firmly under the radar. But as they draw ever closer to the bombers, and as the terrorism sweeps up Katalin's own family, Finnigan and Fiero have to decide if they can continue to operate in the shadows. As the partners learn who they can--and can't--trust, they come face-to-face with shocking secrets at the highest echelons of the world's intelligence communities. Nonstop action and whip-smart dialogue power this compelling thriller to its final, heart-stopping conclusion."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Bounty hunters; Kidnapping; Terrorism; International crimes; Bombs; Bombings;

Sentinels of fire / by Deutermann, P. T.(Peter T.),1941-(CARDINAL)348259;
"P.T. Deutermann's World War II Navy series began with the award-winning Pacific Glory, followed by the brilliantly reviewed Ghosts of Bungo Suido. His new novel Sentinels of Fire tells the tale of a lone destroyer, the USS Malloy, part of the Allied invasion forces attacking the island of Okinawa and the Japanese home islands. By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major ship a day to murderous swarms of kamikazes streaming out of Formosa and southern Japan. The radar picket line is the first defense and early warning against these hellish formations, but the Japanese direct special attention to these lone destroyers stationed north and west of Okinawa. One destroyer, the USS Malloy, faces an even more pressing issue when her Executive Officer Connie Miles begins to realize that the ship's much-admired Captain Pudge Tallmadge is losing his mind under the relentless pressure of the attacks. Set against the blazing gun battles created by the last desperate offensive of the Japanese, Executive Officer Miles and the ship's officers grapple with the consequences of losing their skipper's guidance--and perhaps the ship itself and everyone on board. Vividly authentic, historically accurate, and emotionally compelling, Sentinels of Fire is military adventure at its best, by an author whose career as a Navy captain informs every page"--
Subjects: War fiction.; Sea fiction.; Fiction.; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

Avoiding common pilot errors : an air traffic controller's view / by Stewart, John,1945 May 3-(CARDINAL)776447;
Subjects: Air traffic control; Airplanes; Errors.;

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