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Cold War Drama Political kidnapping Fiction Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Drama Soviet Union Politics and government 1945-1991 Drama Spy stories Subversive activities United States Drama United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Drama United States Politics and government 1945-1989 Drama World politics World politics FictionSummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMENorth, Oliver.
Summary: In 2032, conservative Christians have been driven underground by a repressive government that discredits a former war hero during an effort to rescue a kidnapped scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORBeha, Christopher R.
Summary: "The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election, Sam's familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam's editor sends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEHWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: "Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia obtains and sells a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend. When both Garcia and the who bought the letters disappear, Doc Ford investigates, convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful agency, cannot allow to be made public"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIClancy, Tom
Summary: Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAFollett, Ken
Summary: "A complex, scary thriller ... sobering."--Kirkus Reviews
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MODCoulter, Catherine
Summary: Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her best friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena. She was never heard from or seen again. Now Mia is an investigative journalist covering the political scene in New York City, but she hasn’t given up trying to find out what happened to her friend that night. When an old photo taken at the frat party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUPonti, James
Summary: "After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PONSummary: The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUSummary: When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TOMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TOMJohnson, Denis
Summary: "A literary spy thriller set in Africa, where an intelligence agent is caught up in a get rich quick scheme"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLFollett, Ken.
Summary: East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLSummary: June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHUCoulter, Catherine
Summary: "Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena. Now an investigative journalist, Mia discovers photos from that night and begins to uncover a sinister string of events. But some powerful people will do anything to keep her from learning the truth. CIA operative Olivia Hildebrand is on a mission in Iran to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COUBlack, Benjamin
Summary: Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020Hammad, Isabella
Summary: After years away from her family's homeland and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMWhite, Randy Wayne
Summary: "The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WHISaab, Gabriella
Summary: Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAAWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items--high-profile collectibles--but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIEscoffier, Michaël
Summary: What happens when you subtract just one letter from a word? Beginning with "without the A the beast is the best" a pack of silly creatures work their way through the alphabet, subtracting each letter from a different word to alter its meaning and tell a story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESCSummary: It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014