Harris, Robert
Summary: Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Guy flies with Chamberlain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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Summary: September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat'the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPalmer, Matthew
Summary: A disgraceed former State Department star starts over at a Congo m ining facility that's being oppressed by corrupt interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALCashore, Kristin
Summary: "Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASSummary: Alex Ventura, a young and inexperienced diplomat, leads a team of explorers and experts to recover the undersea treasure stolen by Frank Wild, an adventurer who crosses the world looting common heritage from the depths of the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORSummary: Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE INDClark, Andrea Yaryura
Summary: "New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAKaplan, Philip
Summary: A suspenseful thriller based on true events follows the experiences of an American diplomat in Tehran who becomes a firsthand witness to the military violence, religious extremes, and political machinations of the Iranian Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPSmith, Wilbur A.
Summary: The banks of the Nile are torn by an unprecedented war during which a charismatic new religious leader traps hundreds of people in the capital city of Khartoum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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Summary: "Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she's returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria's royal palace. Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BODGreene, Graham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJenoff, Pam.
Summary: 1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta is lucky to have escaped with her life. When the American soldier she plans to wed is killed in a plane crash, she discovers she is pregnant, and marries a British diplomat in an attempt to create a happier life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENLederer, William J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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Summary: Once a senior diplomat in Kiev, Simon Davey lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is traveling on the Tube when he sees her. . . . This woman, Olesya, is the person Simon holds responsible for his downfall. He first met her on an icy night during the protests on Independence Square. Full of hope and idealism, Olesya could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILFinn, A. J.
Summary: Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Florence Farfarletti has a plan for female emancipation in the Middle East, and enlists the help of a diverse group to help her carry out her plan of reaching her audience with TV shows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUJust, Ward S.
Summary: While on duty as a young foreign service officer in Indochina in the 1960s, Harry Sanders briefly meets a young German woman who changes the course of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUSSteinhauer, Olen.
Summary: "Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steinhauer 2014Zander, Joakim
Summary: "In this elegant and action-packed stand-alone sequel to the international bestselling thrillers The Swimmer and The Believer, fierce heroine Klara Walldeen must save her dearest friend Gabriella and maneuver the politics of a Swedish diplomat--while also falling in love. November 2015. Klara Walldeen returns to the Stockholm archipelago to bury her beloved grandfather, her best friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANSummary: With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Grace Blakely believed that finding the truth about her mother's murder would finally give her peace, but now she knows that it is only the beginning of the secrets that will dominate her life--and make her a target on Embassy Row in Adria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015