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Korea (North) Korea (North) Fiction Koreans Fiction Logan, Pike Fiction Special forces (Military science) United States Fiction Special operations (Military science) Fiction Syria History Civil War, 2011- Fiction Terrorism Fiction United States Foreign relations Korea (North) Fiction United States Foreign relations Syria FictionBond, Larry.
Summary: When, after years of tough negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il suddenly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons, a suspicious U.S. government sends the First Team in to stop a mysterious conspiracy plotting a full-scale nuclear attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVTheroux, Marcel
Summary: When the discovery of The Dungeon Master's Guide draws him into a colorful new world, ten-year-old Jun-su, with the help of an English-speaking teacher, deciphers the rules of this famous role-playing game, which sweeps him away from the harsh reality of a famine-stricken North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THEJohnson, Adam
Summary: Follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHPandi
Summary: "The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANShin, Ann
Summary: "Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIChurch, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUChurch, James.
Summary: In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUCho, Tina M.
Summary: In South Korea, Yoori and her Appa, who grew up in North Korea, work with other villagers to send special balloons to carry rice over the border into North Korea, where people are starving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHOLee, Krys
Summary: Three young people struggle to make new lives for themselves in the dangerous region where China borders North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEGreaney, Mark.
Summary: "A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GREGreaney, Mark.
Summary: A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREJohn, D. B.
Summary: A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHBandi
Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BANRobards, Karen
Summary: "It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROBKlingborg, Brian
Summary: "A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KLIDelisle, Guy.
Summary: When North Korea recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, the author found himself in its capital of Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, the author could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside in the company...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93043 DELTalarigo, Jeff.
Summary: Set at the turn of the 21st century in China, this novel follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called Red Mercury. Meanwhile, North Korea has its own devastating agenda: a double-cross that will dwarf the attack in Syria even as it lays the blame on the Syrian government. Leveraging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYChurch, James
Summary: When clues link a beautiful woman's disappearance to a sensitive mission to deliver an agent across the North Korean border, Bing, a director of state security in a volatile region of China, receives reluctant help from his uncle, Inspector O, to navigate an increasingly complex investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUJohn, David
Summary: "A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance Star of the North opens in 1988, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twenty-two years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Adam
Summary: The Orphan master's son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHHarp, Andy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bancroft Press 2007