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1. The determined spy: the turbulent life and times of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner

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Author:
Waller, Douglas C.
Publisher:
Dutton
Pub. Date:
[2025]
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English
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"An intimate and expertly-researched biography of Frank Wisner, the father of CIA Black Ops, telling the story of his exciting intelligence escapades as well as his lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder"-- Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in 1950s Washington, though few knew it. Reporting directly to senior U.S. officials--his work largely hidden from Congress and the public-- Wisner masterminded some of the CIA's most daring and controversial...

2. A court of wings and ruin

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Author:
Maas, Sarah J.
Series:
Thorndike Press large print romance
Court of thorns and roses volume 3
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HL: High-Low 760L
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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Feyre will bring vengeance. She has left the Night Court -- and her High Lord -- and is playing a deadly game of deceit. Her former lover Tamlin is making deals with Feyre's enemies and she is determined to uncover his plans. But can she make him believe she has come back to him when every fibre of her being yearns for Rhysand? As mighty armies clash, Feyre will discover she is not the only one hiding something. And as the web of secrets, lies and...

3. The Alice network

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
Series:
Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
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HL: High-Low 820L
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English
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3.8 stars
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"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...

4. Karen's Witch

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Author:
Farina, Katy
Series:
Baby-sitters little sister volume 1
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GN: Graphic Novel 500L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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A fresh and fun graphic novel series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!

Karen Brewer lives next door to Mrs. Porter, who wears long robes and has wild gray hair. Mrs. Porter has a black cat named Midnight and always seems to be working in her garden. Karen isn't supposed to spy on her neighbor, but she's determined to prove that Mrs. Porter is a witch named Morbidda Destiny!

Mrs. Porter is

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5. The thirty nine steps

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Author:
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Series:
Great classic
Vintage Classics
Richard Hannay volume 1
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1000L
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English
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May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine...

6. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

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Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
Series:
George Smiley volume 5
Language:
English
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5 stars
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George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself.

7. House of spies

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Author:
Silva, Daniel, 1960-
Series:
Gabriel Allon volume 17
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London's glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that...

8. A column of fire

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Author:
Follett, Ken
Series:
Kingsbridge volume 3
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...

9. Spy School secret service

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Author:
Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-
Series:
Spy School
Spy school novel volume 5
Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 820L
Language:
English
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4.8 stars
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Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.

10. Hooray for Fly Guy!

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Author:
Arnold, Tedd
Series:
Fly Guy volume 6
Lexile measure:
380L
Language:
English
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Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.

11. In Farleigh Field: a novel

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Author:
Bowen, Rhys
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English
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3 stars
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World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves....

12. Liar & spy

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Author:
Stead, Rebecca
Lexile measure:
670L
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English
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.

13. A most wanted man: a novel

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Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
Language:
English
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4 stars
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New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled...

14. The summer guests

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Author:
Gerritsen, Tess
Series:
Martini Club volume 2
Language:
English
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"When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood...

15. Cometh the hour

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Author:
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
Series:
Clifton chronicles volume 6
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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4 stars
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.

16. Dragon teeth: a novel

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Author:
Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
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English
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The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...

17. Near dark: a thriller

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Author:
Thor, Brad
Series:
Scot Harvath volume 20
Scot Harvath volume 19
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"Thor's Near Dark brings back bright-eyed Navy SEAL-turned-Secret Service agent Scot Harvath for another spine tingling thriller."

18. The Goddess of Warsaw: a novel

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Author:
Barr, Lisa
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English
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5 stars
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphant tale of a Jewish WWII assassin turned Hollywood star. In 2005, Siena Hayes is Hollywood's latest It Girl, but she has her sights set higher than the screen, she wants to be behind the camera. So when Siena meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous actor from decades past, Siena sees her big break. Siena wants to direct Lena's biopic-but...

19. The Americans: The complete third season

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Publisher:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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3 stars
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East Hampton Adult Television Series
DVD AME
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Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.

20. The cellist: a novel

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Author:
Silva, Daniel, 1960-
Series:
Gabriel Allon volume 21
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order." --
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