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2) Dominion
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"1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints." -- provided by publisher.
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"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II - a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests - her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...
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James Bond series volume 34
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English
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Bond is despatched to Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, where an embittered Greek Cypriot heads a ruthless terrorist organization specializing in biological and chemical weaponry. They have created a deadly virus which they are using to further their own agenda.
6) Red to black
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In a resurgent Russia fueled by oil money and run by a corrupt oligarchy, a beautiful and brilliant KGB colonel, Anna, and her British counterpart in the MI6, Finn, are caught in a precarious secret mission to uncover the deadly threat a possible new Russian empire poses to the world.
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James Bond series volume 10
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English
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British secret agent James Bond arrives just in time for Vivienne at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court after two hardened mobsters show up.
8) Black cross
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In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
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2023.
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When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler. The notes in his possession declare Hitler unfit for office -- a secret that could destroy the Führer's reputation, and change the course of the war if exposed....
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
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English
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Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue--the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall Street Journal). It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is...
12) Jasmine nights
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At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her only hope of escaping the clamor of Cardiff Bay, Wales, lies in her voice. While traveling Britain, singing for wounded soldiers, Saba meets handsome fighter pilot Dom Benson, recovering from burns after a crash. When Saba auditions to entertain troops in far-off lands, Dom follows her to London. Just as their relationship begins to take root, Saba is sent to sing in Africa, and Dom is assigned a new mission...
13) Enigma
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A thriller on the breaking of a secret German radio code during World War II. The protagonists are two British cryptographers, a man and a woman, and their work becomes a race to crack the code in time to save a convoy of U.S. ships from being sunk by U-boats.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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670L
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English
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Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his...
16) Bad company
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 11
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English
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In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: someone very close to none other than the current president, Jake Cazalet. Powerful enemies of Cazalet will do anything to...
17) Midnight runner
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The murderous Rashid family were forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by the British Government's secret enforcer Sean Dillon and his undercover team. Yet one member of that oil-rich dynasty was allowed to live, and that could have been Dillon's fatal mistake. Kate Rashid witnessed her brothers being killed one by one, and now she has sworn vengeance. Sean Dillon, White House operative Blake Johnson, even the US President himself...their...
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"Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department...
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George Smiley novels volume 8
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English
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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...
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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.
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