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The Book of Secrets : A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
Xue, XinranBloomsbury Publishing 2024The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to to...
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Same Bed Different Dreams : A Novel
Park, EdRandom House Publishing Group 2023New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War : The Return of History
Plokhy, SerhiiW. W. Norton & Company 2023An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe. Despite repeated warnings fro...
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Tunnel 29 : den sanna historien om den osannolika flykten under Berlinmuren
Merriman, HelenaBokförlaget Forum 2021Spänning, spioner, kärlek och svek i en sann berättelse från det kalla krigets delade Berlin.I september 1961 riskerar den 22-åriga studenten Joachim Rudolph allt för att fly från...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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If Then : How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Lepore, JillLiveright 2020From the best-selling author of These Truths, an "exhilarating" (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era. The Simulmatics Corporation, found...
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Burn
Ness, PatrickWalker Books 2020An all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons from the twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness. "On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her...
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Becoming Kim Jong Un : A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
Pak, Jung H.Random House Publishing Group 2020A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert “Shrewdly s...
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Putin's People : How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
Belton, CatherineHarperCollins Publishers 2020THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton ha...
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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Higginbotham, AdamSimon & Schuster 2019A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR...
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The Global Refugee Crisis : Fleeing Conflict and Violence
McPherson, Stephanie SammartinoLerner Publishing Group 2019According to a UN tally, more than 1 million people fled violence and persecution in 2015. Of these, more than half were children. Thousands died along the way. The Syrian civil wa...
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Ronald Reagan : An Intellectual Biography
Byrne, David T.Potomac Books 2018In this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan's political philosophy and policies. Rather than appraising Reagan's personal and emotional lif...
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The Complete Predator Omnibus
Archer, Nathan; Schofield, SandyTitan Books 2018Collects three original Predator novels, continuing the classic franchise CONCRETE JUNGLENew York City's Detective Schaefer has seen it all, from domestic murders to drug-gang exec...
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The Future Is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Gessen, MashaPenguin Publishing Group 2017WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED...
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Odessa Sea : Dirk Pitt Adventure Series, Book 24
Cussler, Clive; Cussler, DirkPenguin Publishing Group 2016Dirk Pitt—“oceanography’s answer to Indiana Jones”*—responds to a Mayday signal from a deserted ship and gets drawn towards a deadly Cold War secret in this thriller in Clive Cussl...
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The Kremlin Letter
Behn, NoelOpen Road Media 2016New York Times Bestseller: Six American spies embark on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in this classic Cold War espionage thriller. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Rone, a young naval...
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The Invention of Russia : The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News
Ostrovsky, ArkadyPenguin Publishing Group 2016WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR “Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed,...
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B.P.R.D. (2002), Volume 27 : Hell on Earth: End of Days
Mignola, MikeDark Horse Comics 2016 CollectedThe Hell on Earth as we know it comes to an end. In a drastic change, one of the most terrifying creatures in existence has been released. Can the BPRD defend the world—and humanit...
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Secondhand Time : The Last of the Soviets
Alexievich, SvetlanaRandom House Publishing Group 2016NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel P...
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The Night Manager : A Novel
le Carré, JohnRandom House Publishing Group 2015Now an AMC miniseries • The acclaimed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré, the legendary author...