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(0)Michael Jayston
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English
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John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla,...
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
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English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
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English
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On its publication In 1964, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When the...
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George Smiley novels volume 6
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English
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George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, 'The Honourable Schoolboy', a passionate lover, and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. And so begins the terrifying game...--provided by fantastic fiction.
6) Fatherland
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English
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Berlin, 1964, Hitler is about to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday and President Joseph P. Kennedy is to visit Berlin to initiate detente with Germany.
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2004, ©1996
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English
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A mysterious monster is terrorizing the Atlantic Ocean and amous marien biologist Professor Aronnax, is summoned to investigate the disturbance. Accompanied by his daughter, Sophi, the two trail the monstrous creature. They are astounded to discover tht tahe beast is actually a futuristic submarine catpained by the eccentric Captain Nemo. Soon they find themselves hostage under the seas in the cluthces of their menacing host.
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George Smiley novels volume 5
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English
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"No doubt remains, a mole has infiltrated the Circus, code name for the British Secret Intelligence Service. It can only be one of four men operating at the very highest level. Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the mole, a task that requires a painstaking dig through the double-blind world of Cold War espionage and his own past." -- Container.
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English
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"Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the question at the core of Hitler's Charisma." -- Book jacket.
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Second World War volume 01
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English
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Studies the events from 1919-1939, stressing the allied errors that led to World War II and analyzes the first months of the war
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1999.
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English
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Lavish retelling of the final years of the Russian Tsar and Empress. The film begins in 1904 and shows the stark contrast between the opulent life of the nobility and the poverty of the peasants. Over the years Nicholas cannot satify the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin. The film ends with the Russian Revolution and the execution of the royal family.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
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[1998]
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English
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When lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a man for murder, the case appears open and shut. But when Aldridge is found dead in her office, Dalgliesh and his team must make sense of events.
15) Single & Single
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English
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A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears...
16) Jane Eyre
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[2006]
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English
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Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, becomes a governess and learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
17) The black tower
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English
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Adam Dalgleish, convalescing after a severe illness, arrives at Toynton Grange, the rest home for the young disabled, just too late to find out why his old friend Father Baddeley had sent for him. Stirred by suspicions, the sleuth takes up residence at the home.
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2013
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English
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The Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Amplified edition includes the following features:
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The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did...
20) The Russia House
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English
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John le Carre has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre tracks the dark and devastating trail of a document that could profoundly alter the course of world events. In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives...
