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- The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / by Lin, Tom,author.;
"Orphaned as a boy, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Union Pacific Railroad. Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a clairvoyant old man known only as the Prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed him, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming fights his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality"--- Subjects: Western fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Historical fiction.; Chinese Americans; Assassins; Revenge; Kidnapping;
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- His dark materials. [videorecording] / by Bakare, Ariyon,1971-actor.; Connor, Kit,2004-actor.; Cosmo, James,actor.; Keen, Dafne,2005-actor.; McAvoy, James,1979-actor.; Miranda, Lin-Manuel,1980-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Pullman, Philip,1946-His dark materials.; Scott, Andrew,1976 October 21-actor.; Wilson, Amir,actor.; Wilson, Ruth,1982-actor.; HBO Entertainment (Firm),production company.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Amir Wilson, Andrew Scott, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruth Wilson, Ariyon Bakare, James Cosmo, James Mcavoy.A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium, which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Kidnapping; Good and evil; Magic;
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- High treason : a novel / by McFate, Sean,author.;
"In this pulse-pounding third action thriller for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, a man must stop traitors--and former colleagues--who are determined to overthrow a U.S. president. En route to the National Prayer Breakfast, the U.S. vice president's motorcade is hit in a vicious, expertly planned attack that throws Washington, D.C. into chaos. Everyone assumes it's ISIS--everyone but young FBI agent Jennifer Lin. She is certain that Russia is behind the strike. Half a world away, military contractor Tom Locke has his own doubts about what happened--and who did it. He suspects his former employer, Apollo Outcomes, might be involved. But why would the global security firm orchestrate an attack on US soil? Returning to D.C., Locke discovers that a civil war has fractured Apollo. A division has splintered off, a rogue unit led by an ambitious, unprincipled former colleague who may have planned the attack himself. But Apollo couldn't have pulled this off without help from inside the government. The official's itinerary and route were confidential-which means there must be a traitor high up in either the White House or the NSA who is leaking information to Apollo. But why? And who could be pulling the strings? Islamic fundamentalist terrorists? Or is this a new ploy by Putin to discredit the U.S. government and divide it from its democratic allies? Only Locke can get to the bottom of the conspiracy that traverses the globe and blow it apart with one strategic strike before it's too late."--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); War fiction.; Political fiction.; Attempted assassination; Mercenary troops; Private military companies;
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