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1) Spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000, 1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
59 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light...
3) Sweet tooth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
4) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Language
English
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After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
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Series
Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash novels volume 1
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Language
English
Description
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation, but also her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Olivia?s birthday is days away. Plans must be made. Who makes plans? Moms! Who simply must know the plans? Olivia, who is NOT above eavesdropping. But when she not-so-accidentally-but-kinda overhears her mom talking about her not-so-squeaky-clean-and-possibly-very-bad-behavior, Olivia?s imagination runs wild...because it sounds like not only will there be no birthday, but Mom might just be sending her to military school instead....
8) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Language
English
Description
Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Swiss Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 46
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank and Joe, the Hardy boys, solve a mystery involving a magician, American secret agents, and international spy ring, and a Scottish castle.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her 'little problem' taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to...
Author
Series
NERDS volume 3
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The excitement of international espionage combined with the awkwardness of elementary makes for non-stop laughs in NERDS, the hilarious series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley!
A former NERDS team member named Gerdie (code name Mathlete) has invented a powerful device that she's using to loot alternate realities. Her goal? Plastic surgery and a spot on a competitive cheerleading squad. Gerdie's device is
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
656 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Armed men prepare to take the fight to the enemy after three American officials are killed by Colombian drug lords to make their message clear: Leave us alone.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
She used to work for the United States government, but
very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field,
she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so
clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they
decided she was a liability, they came for her without
warning. Now, she rarely stays in the same place or uses
the same name for long. They've killed the only person she
trusted,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable. Slipping into this maze of peril is Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier who's currently the night manager of a posh hotel in Zurich. Having learned...
Author
Series
NERDS volume 2
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillain Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While trying out the spy glasses, spy hat, and other items in their new spy kit, seven-year-old Henry and his dog Mudge make a new friend and form a spy club.
18) Stars and smoke
Author
Series
Stars and smoke (Lu) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year old Winter Young, the world's hottest superstar, is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon and finds himself paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
As British spy Agent K traverses the globe on an undercover mission to expose a deadly criminal organization, he records his secret techniques in a manual for new recruits, in a title which includes a magnifying jewel on the front cover and a codex on the inside back cover for creating and deciphering codes.
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
James embarks on a dangerous mission for the CHERUB agency, taking down the world's most powerful drug lord, putting his own safety aside in the hopes of ridding the streets of dangerous drugs.
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