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2) Defiance
Author
Series
DAW Book Collectors volume no. 1947
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi. In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild, and that region is in confusion. Ready to hand is an age-old feud in the west, where the Master of Ashidama Bay has long hated the Edi people of the north shore and equally hated the Aishidi’tat...
Author
Series
Bedwyn saga volume 5
Language
English
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Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.
Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past—only to find his future...
Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past—only to find his future...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A diplomat’s murder draws heiress-turned-lawyer Prudence MacKenzie and former Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter away from the opulent mansions of Gilded Age New York’s high society and into the dark heart of Chinatown . . . February 1891: New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art objects, timed to coincide with the arrival of a new Chinese cultural attaché, Lord Peng. Prudence and Geoffrey are invited...
6) M. Butterfly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A French civil service officer risks and then abandons everything in his life in his obsessive pursuit of a enigmatic Chinese opera diva who harbors a secret.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpocketsimagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist.It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. Armed with foreign film visas, Antonio Mendez and a team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders, directors, producers and actors traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot...
Author
Series
Commissario Cenni investigations volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Everyone wants to blame her lover, a young African lesbian who happens to be an illegal immigrant in Italy, for the murder of an elderly German woman in the small rural town of Paradiso, but Inspector Alessandro Cenni insists on a full investigation.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A promising young diplomat's account of her assignment in South Sudan, the world's youngest nation on the brink of civil war, and an explanation of the ways US foreign policy has utterly failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Documents the contributions of American-born Englishman Robert Bunch to negotiating fragile relations between the Confederate South and Britain while hiding his secret work as a determined abolitionist. By the author of Securing the City.
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