Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 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
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Carter 2016Keenan, Brigid
Summary: In the continuing adventures of Brigid Keenan, the "trailing spouse" of a diplomat, we find her dealing with life in Kazakhstan, navigating her daughters' weddings, coping with a cancer diagnosis, and getting a crash course in grandmotherhood, while facing up to her greatest challange yet: retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEENAN, BRIGID KEEPalmer, 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 PALWright, Robert A. (Robert Anthony)
Summary: Puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 WRIKlein, Aaron.
Summary: An investigative journalist exposes significant issues related to the Benghazi attack, including secretive activities inside the doomed facility, the withholding of critical protection, the fate of Ambassador Chris Stevens, and the role Hillary Clinton played in the scandal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WND Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KLECarter, Ally.
Summary: Desperate to protect her younger brother Jamie, Grace Blakely, her brother, and her friend Alexei are on the run from the forces in Adria who threaten them because Jamie is the true heir to the throne--but it is hard to hide from Prime Minister Alexandra Petrovic and the the secret society that is part of Grace's family heritage, and even harder to know who to trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILIftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFTMoorhouse, Roger
Summary: "In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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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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Summary: Reminiscent of the work of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauser, this brilliant debut novel features a young State Department intern on the run in Turkey, trying to outwit and outmaneuver everyone from the Turkish president to Islamic extremists to the CIA. Racing to keep from being killed and to uncover the truth, Penny Kessler reluctantly partners with Connor Beauregard, a rookie CIA officer on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Fighting his post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane-- until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her young grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter's husband and the sole suspect, fled to Iceland with his son for the protection of Erik's lawless family. For reasons both unknown and unofficial, it seems that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Somali immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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Summary: Assigned to a ceremonial post in Mancreu, British consul and Afghanistan war veteran Lester Ferris is compelled to disregard widespread underworld activities while bonding with a comic-addicted youth who relies on him for help during a violent uprising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Errol Flynn's farewell to big-budget swashbuckling has him playing the legenday Don Juan, the Spanish lover who fights to save the Queen Margaret and her King from the treacherous machinations of her minister, Duke de Lorca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDRose, Alexander
Summary: "James Bulloch, a sea captain turned Confederate agent, arrived in Liverpool at a crucial moment during the U.S. Civil War: a Union blockade was preventing Southern cotton exports from reaching Britain, threatening to destroy what was left of the Confederate economy-unless Bulloch could secretly arrange for the construction of a fleet of warships to break the northern grip on the South. Shortly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2022
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Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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Summary: Detective Alex Cross's pursuit of the killer involved in a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C. produces a suspect--a British diplomat who engages in a brilliant series of countermoves, both in and out of the courtroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROGratz, Alan
Summary: It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2016Nuurali, Siman
Summary: His school is starting a newspaper club, and Sadiq wants to be a reporter--but he is troubled because the editor-in-chief, Katy, seems more intent on embarrassing people with gossip than in reporting actual news stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024