Summary: A coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou Province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARSummary: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesus Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Producciones Iguana 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROSummary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMALe Carre, John
Summary: Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash, forms an alliance with Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: An English tailor working in Panama is hired by the British government as a spy because of his contacts at the highest level. He proceeds to tailor his reports the way he creates his suits, giving the client what he wants, and the result is tragicomedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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Summary: Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers 1993
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Summary: Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: Charlie, a young English actress, meets a man on a Greek beach who draws her into a world of espionage and terror in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1983
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Summary: Magnus Pym, a middle-aged senior official in British intelligence at the British Embassy in Vienna, is enigmatic, accomplished, and suave -- a perfect spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECSummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRCarre, John le.
Summary: A ferocious new novel from the master: when a man's good heart is his worst enemy ... By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days, when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and the enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2004
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Summary: A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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Summary: A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash hidden in a purse around his neck and he says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, is determined to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career - or safety.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LECSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONLa Seur, Carrie
Summary: "The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?" The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement-especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: After being abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador's life is guided by a British Intelligence officer. He becomes an interpreter and stumbles upon a nasty plot and ends up courting danger from London to Congo to an island off Denmark.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks 2006
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Summary: In a new world of espionage the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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Summary: John le Carre returns with a riveting new book, his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017
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Summary: Brit Teddy Mundy and German Sasha are unlikely friends who become double agents in the 1980's. By the time the Berlin Wall crumbles, they've been pensioned off and forgotten, but they reunite in 2003 to fight America's Operation Iraqi Freedom. But how far will their opponents go to justify their war on terrorism?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coward-McCann 1968