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Oregon files volume 1
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English
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It's up to Cabrillo and his crew of expert intelligence and Naval men to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. His gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate -- and steal -- the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Kurt Austin and the special assignments team of the National Underwater & Marine Agency are called upon to intervene when a billionaire tycoon who plans to proclaim himself czar of Russia attempts to divert attention from his activities by setting off pockets of methane hydrate, known as "fire ice," along the coast of the United States.
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Jack Ryan volume 8
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English
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Newly elected President Jack Ryan is disturbed by the attempted assassination of Russia's intelligence agency chairman, and as antiterrorism specialist John Clark and others go to Moscow to investigate, danger to the entire world takes shape in China.
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Shaw and Katie James volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, the secrets of his past starkly revealed. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw -- the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth -- witnesses the murder of a mysterious man, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner in tow, begins to realize that there has to be another organization...
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English
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"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 5
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English
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Washington D.C. is turned upside down when the director of the CIA is found dead and a controversial successor is named, and the Middle East is sent to the brink of war when Israel learns Saddam Hussein is about to enter the nuclear arms race.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality and compromise--and in either case, the consequences may be deadly. Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to...
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Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 357 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. That same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the White House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but had placed implants in American electrical and nuclear plants that could give them the power to switch off vast swaths of the country. American...
9) Information wars: how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do about it
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English
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"In February of 2013, Richard Stengel, the former editor-in-chief of Time, joined the Obama administration as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Within days, two shocking events made world-wide headlines: ISIS executed American journalist James Foley on a graphic video seen by tens of millions, and Vladimir Putin's "little green men"-Russian special forces-invaded Crimea, amid a blizzard of Russian denials and false...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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xii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. Respect for sovereignty alone cannot uphold order in an age defined by global challenges from terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons to climate change and cyberspace. Meanwhile, great power rivalry is returning. Weak states pose problems just as confounding as strong ones. The United States...
11) Transition
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Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2009
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404 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?...
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Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In The One from the Other, Hitler's legacy lives on. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich. Business is slow and his funds are dwindling when a woman hires him to investigate her husband's...
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English
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Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters--a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York--hurtle toward a shared...
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Presidential Agent novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
453 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages concerning covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies suddenly gone missing and then, suddenly, inexplicably, found dying. Or dead. One in Budapest, Hungary. One in Kiev, Ukraine. One in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, mere klicks from the Iran border. And then one in Virginia, along the Potomac River, practically...
16) Fire strike
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Oregon files volume 17
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English
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"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The...
17) The middleman
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Summer, 2017. About four hundred people leave behind cell phones, credit cards, jobs, houses, families-- all on the same day. Kevin Moore is one of them. Former military, disaffected, restless, Kevin leaves disappears-- into a movement that calls itself the Massive Brigade. Are they a protest organization, a political movement, or a terrorist group? The FBI doesn't know-- but isn't taking any chances. Special Agent Rachel Proulx is very familiar with...
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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A terrorist with a most personal grudge, an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence, a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water, an astronaut who takes her job very seriously--the paths of all of these characters converge on one clear morning in Florida. NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle, this time with a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and the FBI and...
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Presidential Agent novels volume 7
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat -- but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant? Charley Castillo and his men go in to investigate, but they have no idea what they have just gotten themselves into. By the...
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Presidential Agent novels volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea — to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo’s guts, has just had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo’s...
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