Dorothy Gilman
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 10
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell — a former CIA agent turned art dealer — anxiously awaits them.
But like all Mrs. P's assignments, so ostensibly suitable for the CIA's favorite garden club member, this one quickly turns lethal. Her welcoming committee in Palermo includes a most unlikely CIA agent and several unseen...
But like all Mrs. P's assignments, so ostensibly suitable for the CIA's favorite garden club member, this one quickly turns lethal. Her welcoming committee in Palermo includes a most unlikely CIA agent and several unseen...
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A warm-hearted, occasionally meddlesome widow from New Jersey, is hardly anyone's idea of a CIA operative - exactly why Emily Pollifax is so effective as a spy. Called upon to deliver eight expertly forged passports to the Bulgarian Underground, Mrs. Pollifax carries them in her hat, pretending to be a tourist visiting the scenic Balkans. Contact with the Underground might have been routine, but Mrs. Pollifax's habit of interfering - however benighnly...
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Lexile measure
910L
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English
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Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War--and her...
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A secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland--to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. Her mission: to track down a missing package of plutonium--just enough to make a small atomic bomb. It was a job that suited Mrs. Pollifax's talents. She's good with people and...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 13
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English
Description
Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. Hardly are the two airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern intrigue begin to unwind. Mrs. Pollifax's seatmate is not the affable Arab businessman he pretends to be. It is not imagination that persuades Mrs. P. that wherever they go, she and Farrell are followed. To elude their...
6) Kaleidoscope
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Madame Karitska mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Madame Karitska's trade as a fortune-teller attracts a strange array of clients, including an artistic woman whose husband abandons her to join a religious cult and an Italian immigrant with a "cursed" child. Karitska also helps her good friend, Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, solve the hit-and-run death of a young violinist and the murder of a local philanthropist. Her most troubling case, however, occurs when a subway incident leaves her with an attache...
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From the bestselling author of the Mrs. Pollifax books comes a new mystery habit to acquire. From the moment Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe reach the old house left to their abbey by a mysterious benefactor, their cloistered world begins to crumble. First, there is the wounded man hiding in the house, then the suitcase stuffed with money sitting at the bottom of the well, not to mention fearful apparitions in the night. Lord only knows what's going...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 8
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English
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After agreeing to pick up a package from an informant in Thailand for the CIA, Emily discovers that the informant has been murdered and her husband, Cyrus, has been kidnapped.
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Lexile measure
1040L
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English
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Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their first informant is killed, and Mrs. Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says he is. Still, she forges ahead, checking out suspicious informants, and coming to the conclusion that someone is an imposter and someone wants her dead....
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Shy and lonely Amelia Jones buys a junk shop, only to find a note in a hurdy-gurdy signed by a woman named "Hannah" who says she is about to be murdered. Amelia sets out to trace the note, and, in unraveling the maze of Hannah's murder, find a way to cope with the sad complexities of her own life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
When a young American woman who faced down hijackers on board a flight to the Middle East and saved the lifes of hundreds of people disappears, U.S. officials believe she has been kidnapped, so they call in CIA agent Emily Pollifax to find her.
13) Caravan
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With her anthropologist husband murdered and their caravan stolen by fierce Tuareg tribesmen, Caressa Horvath befriends a captured Zambian youth, becomes a slave, conceals her dangerous beauty beneath the faded robes of an Arab boy, and falls in love is with a Scottish adventurer who frees her from slavery. Set during the early years of WW I in the Sahara.
14) Uncertain voyage
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Dorothy Gilman, famous for her best-selling Mrs. Pollifax mysteries, crafts a novel pulsing with international intrigue and psychological drama. Uncertain Voyage is certain to hold you spellbound with its tale of a timid young American woman who finds herself in situations that would test anyone's courage. Melissa Aubrey is touring Europe alone as part of her quest to establish her self-reliance. Still recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on...
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Lexile measure
870L
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English
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When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Gaden Club tea in the afternoon. The last time she had heard the voice on the other end of the line it had sent her off on a journey that plunged her into a wild tangle of secret agents and high adventure. Now the man from the CIA was asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world. What could Mrs. Pollifax say but...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 6
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English
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The CIA's most senior, charming, and eccentric intelligence agent pursues the foe-in her own inimitable way-along the exotic and mysterious course of the old Silk Route.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 5
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English
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Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on safari by the C.I.A. and told only to take pictures of all of her companions, in order to find the international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. It sounded so simple, but shortly after Mrs. Pollifax started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 7
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English
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Emily's tranquil domesticity with her new husband Cyrus is interrupted in this seventh adventure. She goes to Hong Kong to pursue an agent who has stopped informing, and a friend who, for all intents and purposes, has vanished into thin air.
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Madame Karitska mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When Alison Bartlett is found murdered in her apartment, Lieutenant Pruden seeks the help of pyschic, Madame Karitska.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 12
Lexile measure
930L
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English
Description
Part-time CIA agent Emily Pollifax accompanies her young friend Kadi to the African country of Ubangiba in response to a plea from the soon-to-be king Sammat, who is being plagued by a rash of murders and dangerous rumors among his citizens.