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2) Spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents information about men and women spies throughout history as well as about the tools and equipment they used in espionage and intelligence service.
3) Red Joan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
4) Ultimate spy
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Language
English
Description
Take a look inside the covert world of espionage - its history, the hi-tech spy gadgets and aspects of spycraft from surveillance to assassination. DK's Ultimate Spy is filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs that show details of equipment including spycams, bugs, weapons and drone aircraft. From the earliest intrigues at royal courts through the covert operations of the CIA and KGB during the Cold War to the revelations from Wikileaks...
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Language
English
Description
"Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the government's top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing US secrets to handlers in...
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Series
Gallagher girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
7) Cars 2
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mater gets caught up in international intrigue when he and Lightning McQueen head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car.
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.
Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in...
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Language
English
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Ethan Hunt is an American secret agent who is framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt hotly races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, and drawing one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
11) Spies
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Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Tracy Whitney novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lovely, idealistic Tracy Whitney is framed into a fifteen year sentence in an escape-proof penitentiary. With dazzling ingenuity she fights back to destroy the untouchable crime lords who put her there. With her intelligence and beauty as her only weapons, Tracy embarks on a series of extraordinary escapades that sweep her across the globe. In an explosive confrontation Tracy meets her equal in irresistible Jeff Stevens, whose past is as colorful...
13) Kim
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Language
English
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Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O'Hara's coming of age takes place in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and secret games of espionage played out between the Russians and the British in the mountain passages of Asia. Kim is torn between his allegiance to the ascetic...
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English
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Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions, the heartaches that haunted her life, her vital contributions...
15) M. Butterfly
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Language
English
Description
Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.
17) Micro
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Language
English
Description
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company-only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.
An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Michael Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller...
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Language
English
Description
"World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans he requests the newlywed Paddy's help. She jumps at the chance to work as an agent...
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English
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No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. It tells...
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award Winner, Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioral manipulation, the surveillance...