Save your Vroman's receipt it will be checked when you enter the signing line. A steadfast and proud sci-fi and fantasy geek, A. This policy applies to all Vroman's Bookstore events unless otherwise noted. For each purchased copy of the newest title, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed. Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of the author's most recent title from Vroman's. With nowhere to hide, Lethbridge-Stewart. Letters to the author may be sent to: PO Box 251358. CITY OF SECRETS AUTHOR STEWART SERIESA noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control. There are other secrets at work too, stretching from the past through the hidden world beneath the surface. TRENTON LEE STEWART is author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society series the New York Times bestselling novel The Secret Keepers, also for young readers and the adult novel Flood Summer. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war honest, strong, capable of moral choice. Now driving a taxi provided like his new identity by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.
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