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Series
Language
English
Description
"Operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. Finding Liu is too great an opportunity for any intelligence service to pass up, but a high-level Chinese mole, codenamed SURVEYOR, has managed to infiltrate American Intelligence. President Jack Ryan has only one choice: send John Clark and his Campus team deep into China to find an old graduate student of...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids. Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's...
Series
Jon Pertwee years 1970-1974 volume story no. 60
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Earth in the 22nd century, Daleks have enslaved the planet, and humans live in fear of their masters. Meanwhile, back in the 20th century, a peace conference is urgently needed to prevent World War Three. When reports reach UNIT of a ghost at Auderly House, the site for the conference, the Doctor and Jo decide to investigate. Danger is waiting for them there, including a trip two hundred years into the future without the TARDIS.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
198 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overview: As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students...
Publisher
FUNimation Productions, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
English version.
Language
English
Description
"Misaka's electro-manipulation abilities and delightfully destructive railgun projectile move make her a rock star in Academy City. The techno metropolis is packed with supernaturally powered students known as espers, including Misaka's flirty friend and roommate, Kuroko. She uses her teleportation skills as a member of the judgment law enforcement team, fighting crime alongside her fellow agent Uiharu. Joined by their friend Saten, a spunky level...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as "Invitation-Only Zones"--the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves,...
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