Morris, Bill
Summary: At the time of the Vietnam War, an American hotelier in Bangkok learns from a woman working for the U.S. State Department that the United States is planning to assassinate President Ngo Diem of Vietnam. The hotelier, Sam Mallory, a former navy frogman, takes it upon himself to save the Vietnamese president. By the author of Motor City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORWiley, Jesse
Summary: "It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: A detachment of Special Forces hotshots teams up with presidential counselor Sandy Felter to put a stop to Che Guevara's attempts to "liberate" the Congo from President Joseph Mobutu's anticommunist government. Under Felter's direction, the Green Berets dispatch a special detachment to the Congo. Their mission is to convince Mobutu of the wisdom of the American plan to discredit and humiliate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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Summary: Caught up in the bitter conflict of the French and Indian Wars, two innocent sisters become the prize in a life-and-death contest between Magua, their cunning, ruthless captor, and the one man with a chance to save them--the woodsman known as Hawkeye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1984
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Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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Summary: "For over fifty years Egypt has known nothing but war and devastation at the hands of the Hyksos, a bloodthirsty barbarian people from the distant east who continue to advance, crushing armies in their wake. Times are desperate, but throughout the conflict, a brave resistance fights on under the great Taita, a slave who has risen far beyond his ranks. Piay, entrusted into Taita's care by his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2022
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Summary: For twenty-four tumultuous days after the Shah leaves Iran, a British helicopter company wonders how long its pilots--American, Canadian, British, French, German, and Finnish--will be able to operate throughout the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1986
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Summary: Struggling to forget a war-marked past and a future compromised by poor choices and debt, slave tracker Augustus Cain is hired by a plantation owner to retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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Summary: In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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Summary: Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts. But King Charles II can't resist the chance to outstrip the Dutch with a limitless source of wealth. With the devious pirate O'Dwyer in tow, Quinton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVChabon, Michael.
Summary: Author Michael Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from "The Arabian Nights" to Alexandre Dumas--in a new novel with a cast of characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1986