Special ops
W.E.B. Griffin
W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that launched his phenomenal career-- in an explosive new novel that pits a team of Special Forces warriors against the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara.
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The Pull of the Stars
by Emma Donoghue (2020)
About this book
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.
Setting / LocationDublin, Ireland
Story Era1918 Pandemic
Protagonist / CoreNurse Julia Power & Dr. Kathleen Lynn
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