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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the Prohibition Rum Wars, which created a booming smuggling economy, two women masterminds--Elizebeth Friedman, the inventor of cryptanalysis working for the government, and Marie Waite (aka Spanish Marie), on the rise to rumrunner royalty to save her family--will go to any lengths to rule the Gulf Coast.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in the dungeon at Station Hypo in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from the airwaves in a race to bring down the enemy. Isabel has only one wish: to avenge her brother's death. But she soon finds life has other plans when she meets his best friend, a hotshot pilot with secrets of his own. 1965. Fledgling journalist Lu Freitas comes home to Hawai'i to...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Based on the most advanced findings in physics, cosmology and mathematics, this latest novel from José Rodrigues dos Santos, author of CODEX 632 ("a fresh-thinking historical thriller" -- KIRKUS REVIEWS), brings together cryptology, international espionage, and a secret formula created by the most famous scientist of all time -- Albert Einstein"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in their aunt's small Vermont community after losing their father in childhood, close sisters Rose and Emily are torn apart by a tragedy and reunited by the loss of their mother, whose will requires them to live in neighboring homes for a summer.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 6
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cruz Coronado grapples with an important secret as the gang heads to China in search of the second-to-last piece of the cipher. Under the watchful eye of a new adviser, life on the ship returns to almost normal ... Almost. Just as things seem to be going smoothly, a familiar face shocks Cruz back into reality, and the final piece in this life-and-death scavenger hunt veers toward a dead end"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove, missing since the end of the war, one that Gordon has always claimed is full of 'secrets you can't find anywhere else, live ammunition.'
49) A king's ransom
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After seven member of their family are kidnapped by a organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
51) Clue by clue
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Crack the code with Carmen Sandiego! In this original story inspired by the Netflix animated series, a special clue-decoding wheel built right into the front cover allows readers to hunt for long-lost pirate's treasure alongside the world's greatest thief"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission--but...
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
57) The Cipher
Author
Publisher
Viking Juvenile
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Robert 'Smiles' Smylie and his friend Ben become embroiled in a high-stakes negotiation with a pair of suspicious Feds when Ben cracks a code with the power to unlock all the Internet's secrets.
58) The Enigma game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fresh from the success of their first mission, our heroes the Spy Toys - Dan the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar Bear, Arabella the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll and Flax the custom-made police robot rabbit - are ready for their next task. This time, the secret code that controls every Snaztacular Ultrafun toy has been stolen and all over the world toys are revolting and turning against the children who own them. Can Arabella disguise herself as a super-sweet...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.