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Assassins Fiction Courts and courtiers Fiction Empresses Russia Fiction Espionage and intrigue Fiction FICTION / Literary II, Empress of Russia Catherine 1729-1796 Fiction Intrigue Fiction Power (Social sciences) Fiction Russia History Catherine II, 1762-1796 Fiction Terrorism Prevention FictionThor, Brad
Summary: When a secret organization begins attacking diplomats throughout Europe at the same time a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath works without his mentor to prevent an all-out war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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Summary: It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC REICoughlin, Jack
Summary: When her military doctor brother dies in a suspicious bridge collapse moments after sending her a cellphone photo, a Coast Guard sniper struggles to solve the mystery by investigating the photo and enlisting the aid of a special operations team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUGregory, Philippa
Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREPoole, Sara
Summary: A year after helping Rodrigo Borgia to become Pope Alexander VI, court poisoner Francesca is charged with safeguarding his position, an agenda that exposes her to a violent plot to destroy the Borgia family and seize control of the Catholic Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POOHannah, Darci.
Summary: Returning to her ancestral home on the Borders in 1492, Scottish heiress Isabeau Blythe resolves to restore clan peace and avoid the angel relationships that ruined her father and brother, an effort that is compromised by a ruthless knight, her angel-hunting brother and wild visions of an alluring man. Original.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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Summary: Falling passionately in love with his headmaster's daughter, Samuel Pickens is devastated by her untimely death a month later and becomes convinced that her spirit will not rest until it is returned to her childhood home in nineteenth-century imperial China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEOakes, Colleen
Summary: When an enchanting stranger arrives at Wonderland Palace, Princess Dinah, the future Queen of Hearts, is launched into Wonderland's dangerous political game. She must stay one step ahead of her cunning enemies or she'll lose not just the crown but her head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OAKHall, Kerstin
Summary: "Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium's magical bloodline horrifies her. She wants out, whatever the cost. So when a shadowy cabal approaches Elfreda with an offer of escape, she leaps at the opportunity. As their spy, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALPolk, C. L. (Chelsea L.)
Summary: "With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages of this thrilling final volume. For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLStachniak, Eva
Summary: The epic story of Catherine the Great's improbable rise to power, as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.
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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 STALe Carre, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LECTrevanian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 1980
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Summary: With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. When Cook's power-hungry security adviser leaks the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gould, Rapp races to neutralize the enemies organizing against her and discovers that a new generation of assassins is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILStachniak, Eva
Summary: Tells the epic story of Catherine the Great's improbable rise to power--as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STARicciardi, David
Summary: "Someone is assassinating CIA field officers and Jake Keller's name is next on the list in the latest thrilling novel from the author Publishers Weekly calls "a fresh voice in the crowded spy-thriller field." Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why, but it's a threat he can't ignore. When his small plane crashes in the Alps, Jake is the only survivor. A rescue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICBenedis-Grab, Daphne
Summary: The email arrives Sunday night: Do exactly what I say, when I say it, or I will reveal your secret. On Monday morning, seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's strange instructions, but each of them have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021