The Last Checkmate

Author : Gabriella Saab
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063141949
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Checkmate written by Gabriella Saab and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice. Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However, once he tires of exploiting her skills, he has every intention of killing her. Befriended by a Catholic priest, Maria attempts to overcome her grief, vows to avenge the murder of her family, and plays for her life. For four grueling years, her strategy is simple: Live. Fight. Survive. By cleverly provoking Fritzsch’s volatile nature in front of his superiors, Maria intends to orchestrate his downfall. Only then will she have a chance to evade the fate awaiting her and see him punished for his wickedness. As she carries out her plan and the war nears its end, she challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. If Maria can bear to face Fritzsch—and her past—one last time.

Author : R. L. Mathewson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482318685
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate written by R. L. Mathewson and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing worse than living next door to your childhood nemesis, except maybe being forced to share your dream project with him, being blackmailed into going along with something that was just wrong on so many levels, and having your hot cocoa stolen by the person that drove you to drink it in the first place.As long as she has plenty of hot cocoa, a pair of pliers on hand and is able to resist Connor O'Neil's bad boy charm then Rory James should be able to make it through this project with her sanity intact. If not.....She'd probably face a few more nights in jail, have a few more restraining orders slapped against her and lose her heart to the man that ruined her life.Show more Show less

Author : Garry Kasparov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857443585
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate! written by Garry Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Checkmate! readers are invited to learn chess with Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as their teacher. In this book chess players can discover all the various pieces and how they move, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.

Author : Katherine Kurtz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441016617
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deryni Checkmate written by Katherine Kurtz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than thirty years ago, Katherine Kurtz changed the face of fantasy with the Deryni Chronicles. In 2005, Ace published a newly revised and expanded Deryni Checkmate in hardcover. Now, that edition is available in mass market for the first time.

Author : Tracey Devlyn
Publisher : Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN 13 : 9781402258251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate, My Lord written by Tracey Devlyn and published by Sourcebooks Casablanca. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catherine Ashcroft leads a quiet life caring for her precocious seven-year-old daughter, until a late-night visitor delivers a startling ultimatum. She will match wits with the enigmatic Earl of Somerton, and it's not just her heart that's in danger. Spymaster Sebastian Danvers, Earl of Somerton, is famous for his cunning. Few can outwit him and ever fewer dare challenge him-- until now. After returning to his country estate, his no-nonsense neighbor turns her seductive wiles on him-- but why would a respectable widow like Catherine risk scandal for a few passionate nights in his bed?"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Steven James
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698140192
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate written by Steven James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Checkmate, critically acclaimed novelist Steven James offers a climactic chapter in his bestselling series, the Bowers Files. When a clandestine FBI facility is attacked, Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into the vicious, ruthless story that a killer from his past is bent on telling the world. Clues lead to long-forgotten secrets buried deep beneath Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. Now Bowers is caught up in trying to stop one of the deadliest attacks ever planned on American soil. Smart, tense, and full of mind-bending twists and turns, Checkmate explodes onto the scene, bringing this cycle of the Bowers Files to an unforgettable conclusion.

Author : E.C.R. Lorac
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464215103
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate to Murder written by E.C.R. Lorac and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] excellent fair-play mystery...this British Library Crime Classic more than deserves that status."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. As World War II takes its toll around them, a civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the portrait of his characterful sitter, bedecked in Cardinal's robes at the other end of the room. In the kitchen, the artist's sister is hosting the charlady of the miser next door. When the brutal murder of said miser is discovered by his nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is at the scene, faced with perplexing alibis and with the fate of the young man in his hands. In the search for the culprit, Macdonald and his team of detectives must figure out if one of the members of the studio party is somehow involved in the death, or if some other scurrilous neighbour could be responsible. The British Library of Crime Classics is pleased to revive this clever, classic mystery for amateur sleuths and fans of British historical fiction.

Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140282386
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1557 and Francis Crawford of Lymond must serve the King of France for a year before he can return to Russia, where he believes his destiny lies. Yet the astrologer John Dee has said: It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia. Lymond, exercising his formidable military talents against the English, has no desire to discover the meaning of this prophecy. But Philippa, his wife-in-name only, has. And she devotes her days to a hazardous search for the truth about the past, and the future, of her enigmatic husband.

Author : Greg Rucka
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1401276156
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate By Greg Rucka Book 1 written by Greg Rucka and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WORLD NEEDS WATCHING Acclaimed Author Greg Rucka (WONDER WOMAN, GOTHAM CENTRAL), artist Jesus Saiz (OMAC PROJECT, BIRDS OF PREY) and others craft a tale of action, intrigue and betrayal set in the DC Universe. In the wake of INFINITE CRISIS, the world remains a dangerous place, with new metahuman threats and political battles spiraling out of control at any given moment. There is a desperate need to hold the line against destruction. There is a need„once more„for Checkmate. Rechartered by the United Nations and governed by a ñRule of Twoî that ensures joint partnership between human and metahuman leaders, the covert operations agency acts as the intelligence intervention force seeking to establish order and balance in an increasingly unbalanced world. With core members Green Lantern, Mister Terrific, Fire and Sasha Bordeaux, Checkmate is a formidable group„but will they be able to deal with the rising threats while contending with their own internal moral battles? Collects CHECKMATE #1-12.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Scholastic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780439916325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Checkmate written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling award-winning author Walter Dean Myers is back with his acclaimed Cruisers series. Sidney Aronofsky is one of the best chess players under age sixteen. When he's arrested for trying to buy drugs, it comes as a total surprise to those who know him. The expectations of parents, schools, and tutors pressure the young players. Sidney loves and wants to play chess, but dislikes the constant spotlight. He thinks that if he appears to be involved in drugs he'll be excused from playing on the school's team. In this book, Zander and his crew are back, using the Cruiser school newspaper to express their frustrations and triumphs.