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Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitch Rapp, an operative with the CIA-supported counterterrorism unit the Onion Team, takes on his first assignment.
2) The new girl
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
When a girl from an exclusive private school in Switzerland is kidnapped in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East--and perhaps the world.
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 11
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
455 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After failing to stop a suicide bomber attack in London, master art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon is summoned by the CIA and is faced with an organization riddled with dissent--and ill-equipped to deal with the deadly new face of global jihadist terror.
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion," has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, will stop at nothing to find and kill Khahil.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
6) Off the grid
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engagesordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
10) The defector
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon resumes his honeymoon only to learn from British Intelligence that the man who saved his life in Moscow, Grigori Bulganov--a defector and former Russian intelligence officer--has vanished, and Gabriel is determined to keep the promise that he made, despite the risk of losing that which he values most.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you're seeking lasting relief from out-of-control anxiety, this is the book for you. It is grounded in cognitive behavior therapy, the proven treatment approach developed and tested over more than 25 years by pioneering clinician-researcher Aaron T. Beck. Now Dr. Beck and fellow cognitive therapy expert David A. Clark put the tools and techniques of cognitive behavior therapy at your fingertips in this compassionate guide. Carefully crafted
...12) The panther
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen - one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS "Cole" bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders - and the US government...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions...
14) Moscow rules
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America. Mitch Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years--first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism...
Author
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. & updated [ed.].
Physical Desc
35 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hands Are Not for Hitting
It's never too early to learn about the many good things hands can do. Simple words and charming pictures invite even the youngest children to use their hands for fun and caring actions and to understand that hitting is never okay. Includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.
17) Solar
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard, a serial adulterer with a crumbling fifth marriage and a waning career, seizes the chance to solve all his problems when he blames the accidental death of a rival scientist on his wife's lover, and steals the man's valuable research.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 13
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There's just one problem--no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America's new president must turn to covert counterterrorism...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Harvard-trained neuroscientist presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences.
"Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the...
20) Radiant angel
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess starts acting suspiciously, and an old, dangerous foe reappears. With Russia resurgent and a clear and present...
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