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Summary: Chronicles the exploration by Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke to find the biblical mountain where Moses recieved the Ten Commandments after the flight of the Jews from Egyptian enslavement. With bible in hand the explorers find Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia, at a peak now known as Jabal al Lawz, which in the late 1970s became part of a top-secret military installation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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Summary: A true-life tale of vindication and redemption relates how retired spy Tennant Bagley got back into the game to solve a strange death, and reconciled with his daughter, a CIA officer, who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 BLUBlum, Howard.
Summary: Follows New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, as he hunts for German conspirators on American soil during World War I during a sabotage campaign that began in 1914 when the German ambassador to the U.S., Johann von Bernstoff, was instructed to develop an intelligence network to keep America out of WWI and prevent the shipment of supplies and war material to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4867 BLUBlum, Howard
Summary: "In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Documents the true story of how a Secret Service agent and his unlikely Soviet partner foiled a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BLUBlum, Howard.
Summary: Set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, this true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush describes a mystery surrounding the disappearance of gold bars stolen from the Treadmill Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Without clues, it appears the crime may never be solved, but Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton Agency sets out on a rugged cross-country odyssey to catch the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2010
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Summary: A tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 exposed a deadly "national dynamite plot" by trade unionists to terrorize America with one hundred bombings in a doomed attempt to force capitalism to its knees. The relentless pursuit, capture, trial, and punishment of the bombers made a national hero of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BLUBlum, Howard.
Summary: An account of the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 traces the Suez Canal crossing of more than 80,000 Egyptian troops who penetrated the Sinai Peninsula and devastated the Israeli air force before the tide turned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003