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1) Spitfire
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's V-E Day 1946 in London. Former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis and quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column and her nights alone with black market vodka. But everything changes when she meets Ian Fleming. The man who will create the world's...
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Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old French sailor Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned on his planned wedding day, and--after fourteen years of solitary confinement--a daring escape, hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo, and a new identity bring him closer to a reunion with his love, Mercedes, and revenge upon his accusers.
4) Skin game
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Series
Language
English
Description
Teddy Fay returns to his roots in espionage, in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.
When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger—and stranger—than he could imagine. The trail...
When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger—and stranger—than he could imagine. The trail...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After having her cover blown and risking everything to stop a nuclear Armageddon, Chandler figured she might have been shown some appreciation. Instead, the organization that trained her locks up Chandler's sister on treason charges, intent on extracting every last scrap of information out of her broken body and mind. Despite the impossible odds, Chandler launches a rescue mission, breaking into an ultra-secret military prison on U.S. soil that no...
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English
Description
"A galloping adventure." — The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century
...7) Treason
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 52
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stone Barrington takes on a scheming rebel in this latest action-packed thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods"--
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Language
English
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Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the "aid...
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Series
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English
Description
“[A] magic kingdom of Victorian murder and intrigue.”—The New York Times Book Review
Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. His own self-doubt is fueled by rumors of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel. But why...
Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. His own self-doubt is fueled by rumors of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel. But why...
11) One man's hero
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
12) Irish escape
Author
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1876, after eight years of incarceration at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, six Irish political prisoners escaped to America on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its courageous and unassuming captain, George Smith Anthony, were part of an ambitious plan to liberate the prisoners. Their story is one of swashbuckling adventure and heroism.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Young reader's edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers was handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
Author
Series
Once upon a dukedom volume 3
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After his father is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick, vowing to return honor to his family, turns to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal for help in exposing the others involved in this treasonous plot.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Felicity, a young girl in colonial Williamsburg, decides to find out who is trying to cause trouble when an anonymous person begins falsely accusing people of helping the British--including her father.
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