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2024.
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In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
63) La espía
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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182 pages : illustrations, photographs, facsimiles ; 21 cm.
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En su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho da vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari, quien fuera acusada de espionaje durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Aunque hubo poca evidencia para incriminarla, ella no pudo escapar de la persecución y el enjuiciamiento por la inteligencia militar francesa. Esta cautivadora e íntima narración nos presenta a una mujer que se atrevió, en su tiempo, a hacer lo impensable: desnudarse en público,...
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A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. The private, quiet 'Miss White' as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a 'grace and favor' property, a rare privilege...
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Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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347 pages ; 23 cm.
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When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her "Martini Club" of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
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352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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xxi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
68) City of spies
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Series
Pagan Jones volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
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440 pages ; 22 cm.
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After ex-juvenile-detainee Pagan Jones, part-time Hollywood starlet, part-time spy, returns from making a film in Berlin, she's called upon by the handsome secret agent Devin Black to head to Buenos Aires for an undercover mission. She's to star in a cheesy film with bad actors while trying to track down a Nazi war criminal who has ties to her mother.
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
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Elena Standish volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. And young Elena Standish, to her surprise, is the only one who can recognize MI6's man--because he's her former lover. Aiden Strother betrayed her six years before, throwing shame on her entire family. Now, with so much to prove, Elena heads to Trieste to track down Aiden...
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Elena Standish volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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269 pages ; 25 cm.
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"A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe-unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches. It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power. Any small step forward could vault him toward European domination. When Britain's MI6 gets word that a pair of German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish on a dangerous mission to get one of them out of Germany...
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From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life-one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven Area Controllers-an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of...
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Bantam Books Trade Paperback
Pub. Date
[2014]
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306 pages ; 21 cm.
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"For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent is a gripping new mystery featuring intrepid spy and code breaker Maggie Hope. And this time, the fallout of a deadly plot comes straight to her own front door. World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the pastoral coast of western Scotland. Home from an undercover mission in Berlin, she settles down to...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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viii, 260 pages ; 21 cm
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"For readers of John Le Carre and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army. After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure...
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Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
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112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Biography of eight women who played a role during the American Revolution, including Deborah Samson, Nancy Morgan Hart, Lydia Darragh , Mercy Otis Warren, Esther DeBerdt Reed, Elizabeth Martin, Sybil Ludington, and Margaret Corbin.
77) D-Day girls: the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
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384 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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"The dramatic, inspiring story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis, shore up the Resistance, and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II."--Provided by publisher.
78) Count down
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Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows, until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun.
79) Atomic love
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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276 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Nueva España, 1810. Después de que una mujer desconocida le regalara una medalla de plata en el mercado, Leona Vicario comienza a recibir crípticos mensajes de un remitente desconocido, que la cita en el Templo de la Profesa. Pronto el misterio se hace todavía más grande: ¿quiénes son Los Guadalupes?, ¿qué quieren de ella?, ¿cómo saber quién apoya la independencia y quién es leal al virrey? Abriendo la puerta a una aventura que la llevará...
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