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1) Munich
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Adeluna helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Agrid, a country ruled by religion. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray's new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-- and Lu suspects something dangerous is at work. Devereux is a pirate, scavenging the island's magic plants and selling them on the black market. Accused of the diplomat's abduction, Vex becomes a target....
3) The hostage
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules--all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath...
5) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole is sent from Oslo to steaming hot Bangkok after the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a seedy motel room. As he wanders the streets lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, Harry discovers that the ambassador's family is hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk.
Author
Publisher
Big Mouth House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border -- unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and -- best of all as far as Elliot is concerned -- mermaids. Elliot is thirteen years old. He's smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip...
11) Vidas cruzadas
Author
Series
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2001, ©1997
Language
Español
Description
A romantic drama set during the Second World War. Nick Burnham, a steel magnate is summoned to the White House, where he is asked, by the president, to gather information on Hitler.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For Sophia Hepworth, the terrors of living in dangerous places with her diplomat parents are nothing compared to facing American high school, but friendships and romance bloom just before her past catches up with her.
13) Alien vs. alien
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
"Jeff and Kitty Katt-martini and the rest of the American Centaurion Diplomatic Corps are still recovering from their introduction to Washington D.C. politics, parties, and conspiracies. So when compromising pictures arrive, no one's too surprised. They're also the least of anyone's worries. Evil androids running amok, birds of all kinds and from all places creating havoc, a senator trapped in an ever-tightening web of intrigue, and escalating international...
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini have learned the ins and outs of Washington politics, not to mention how to prevail in intergalactic war and foil dangerous plots. In the aftermath of Operation Destruction, the Gower girls' powers are burned out, the entire A-C population has been "outted" as aliens living on Earth and ACE is nowhere to be found. Then murder and mayhem are served up at an important dinner party at the American Centaurion Embassy and when...
15) The Cairo affair
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The assassination of an American diplomat in Hungary places a Cairo-based CIA agent, an Egyptian intelligence agent, and an American analyst at the mercy of a dangerous political game of shifting allegiances.
16) Alien diplomacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The new heads of American Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps, newlyweds and new parents Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini are plunged into a politcally-charged world where they, plagued by explosions, assassination attempts and murder, must save the all the world's leaders from the bad guys.
17) Embassy wife
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A satirical page-turner following two women abroad searching for the truth about their husbands -- and their country"--
"Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not...
18) Alien separation
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take down the Mastermind, they are transported to another solar system and into the middle of the Alpha Centauri system's Civil War where they must fight a battle that isn't their own to get home and stop their enemy from destroying Earth and everyone they love.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Once a senior diplomat in Kiev, Simon Davey lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is traveling on the Tube when he sees her. . . . This woman, Olesya, is the person Simon holds responsible for his downfall. He first met her on an icy night during the protests on Independence Square. Full of hope and idealism, Olesya could not know what a crucial role she would play in the dangerous...
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