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241) Dead doubles: the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings
Author
Language
English
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Description
An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
242) Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"[A] biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence...
245) Maid of wonder
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1559 England, Sophia Dee, a member of the Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, is pitted against some of Europe's most celebrated mystics, including Nostradamus, in a race to uncover the answer to a deadly prophesy.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 240 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the riveting story of a wealthy heiress who joined the OSS and was the only American woman in uniform to be captured by the Germans; her imprisonment among the Nazi elite and daring escape in 1945 comprise one of the more remarkable untold episodes of WWII. Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a society heiress from South Carolina who lived a charmed...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two decorated American war heroes survive combat in Afghanistan only to find themselves on an unfamiliar battlefield--the courtroom--in this true story by the commander of Delta Company, 1/506th a.k.a. Dog Company. The deaths of two of his men is agony for Captain Roger Hill and the agony is intensified when he realizes those responsible--12 Taliban spies--have been working right under his nose on the American base. When unreasonable military regulations...
249) A spy in the house
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, 17-year-old orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called the Agency in order to infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind...
Author
Series
Finishing school volume the third
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland: a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars, who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed CIA. [This book] chronicles the exploits of four spies:...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from spy school, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley accepts an offer to join evil crime organization SPYDER, and although he knows he is a key part of their sinister plan he is not sure how to get word to the good guys without being caught.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces,--NoveList. In November 1942, American spymaster Allen Dulles slipped into Switzerland just before Nazi forces sealed the border. His mission: to report on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Code-named Agent 110 by the OSS, he discovered a network of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (14 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of James Lafayette, a spy in the American Revolution. After America won its freedom, James returned to slavery. But James's fight for freedom wasn't over.
258) Litvinenko
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Litvinenko, a former Russian spy dies in a London hospital, but not before naming his murderer. Poisoned with the deadliest substance known to man detectives dive into a high-stakes murder investigation. Can they find justice for Litvinenko's family?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages, 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Series
NERDS volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillian Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.
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