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- A woman I know : female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination / by Haverstick, Mary,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime--a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie's story than what met the eye. As she dug deeper, she discovered that Jerrie's life shadowed that of a mysterious CIA agent named June Cobb, whose espionage career traced an arc of intrigue from the jungles of South America to Fidel Castro's Cuba, to the communist literary circles in Mexico City--and ultimately into the dark heart of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Haverstick's attempt to learn the truth directly from Jerrie would plunge her into a cat-and-mouse game that stretched across a decade, deep into a thicket of coded CIA files. As she uncovered a remarkable set of mostly unknown women whose high-stakes intelligence work left its only traces in redacted files, she also found shocking new clues about what really happened at Dealey Plaza in 1963. Offering fresh insight into the Kennedy assassination and a vivid picture of women in midcentury intelligence, A Woman I Know brings to life the astonishing duplicities of the Cold War intelligence game, a world where code names and hidden identities were the lifeblood of spies bent on seeking advantage by any means necessary."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Cobb, Jerrie.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Espionage, American; Spies; Women air pilots;
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- Julius Caesar [videorecording] / by Bennett, Jill,1930-1990.; Burge, Stuart.; Chamberlain, Richard,1935-; Furnival, Robert.; Gielgud, John,1904-2000.; Heston, Charlton.; Johnson, Richard,1927-; Lee, Christopher,1922-; Rigg, Diana.; Robards, Jason.; Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Julius Caesar.Videorecording.; Snell, Peter,1941-; Vaughn, Robert,1932-; Artisan Entertainment (Firm); Commonwealth United Entertainment, Inc.; Olive Films.; Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927); Republic Entertainment Inc.;
Music composed and conducted by Michael Lewis ; executive producers, Henry T. Weinstein, Anthony B. Unger ; adapted for the screen by Robert Furnival.Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett.All-star 1970 version of Shakespeare's classic tale of Julius Caesar's assassination at the hands of the Roman senate. The powerful, heroic and flawed emperor Caesar is warned to "Beware the Ides of March," and with these words the legendary betrayal by the Roman senate begins. Those closest to him, including Brutus, Cassius and even his confidant Marc Antony, plot Caesar's downfall and eventual assassination.MPAA Rating: G.DVD, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital.- Subjects: Caesar, Julius; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Emperors; Feature films.; Historical films.;
- © c2013., Paramount Pictures Corp. : Distributed by Olive Films,
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- The Sisters brothers [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Reilly, John C.; Gyllenhaal, Jake; Phoenix, Joaquin; Ahmed, Riz; Root, Rebecca; Tolman, Allison; Hauer, Rutger; Kane, Carol;
John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, Rebecca Root, Allison Tolman, Rutger Hauer, Carol Kane.Director, Jacques Audiard.Blu-ray.MPAA rating: R.In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.- Subjects: Adventure.; Crime.; Comedy.;
- © 2019., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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- Behooved / by Stevenson, M.,author.;
"Bianca knows her duty comes before her heart. So when the threat of war looms, she agrees to marry the neighboring kingdom's heir. But not all royal weddings are a fairytale, and Prince Aric, Bianca's betrothed, is cold, aloof, and seems to hate her on sight. To make matters worse, on their wedding night, an assassination attempt goes awry -- leaving Aric magically transformed into a horse. Bianca does what any bride in this situation would do: she mounts her new husband and rides away to safety. Sunset returns Aric to human form, but they soon discover the assassination attempt is part of a larger plot against the throne. Worse, Bianca has been framed for Aric's murder, and she's now saddled with a husband who is a horse by day and a frustratingly attractive man by night. As an unexpected romance begins galloping away with their hearts, Bianca and Aric must rely on each other to unravel the curse and save the throne."--- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Arranged marriage; Attempted assassination; Horses; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Princes;
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- The Queen's men / by Clements, Oliver,1972-author.;
"Masked gunmen ambush Queen Elizabeth as she travels through Waltham forest, peppering her carriage with ball holes before disappearing like wraiths in the night. In the tense hours that follow, while no one knows whether she will live or die, her councillors must make decisions, and roll dice. Some argue for acceptance of the new Queen: Mary of Scotland, while others - John Dee - argue the fight against the darkness must go on, and that he should go across the sea, and into the courts of the Queen's enemies, to do to them what they would do to her. When she survives, Francis Walsingham - responsible for her safety - must explain how such a plot could so nearly succeed: who are the gunmen? How did they know she was coming on that road, that night, and in which carriage she would be travelling? And more importantly, where are they now? Robert Beale, Walsingham's deputy, shaken by the thought of Mary of Scotland inheriting the throne and returning England to Catholicism, stumbles on a solution if such a thing could happen again, but the scheme is lethally fraught with risk, and should it be uncovered, he will be hung, drawn and quartered as a traitor. And in her fever her Majesty dreams of fire, and on waking, comes to believe the only way to protect her country is with Greek Fire, the secret of which died with the Byzantines, but which she commissions her disappointed alchemist and scholar John Dee to rediscover. With the help of one of the Queen's women - Jane Frommond - Walsingham learns the depth and complexity of the plot to kill the Queen; Robert Beale falls violently in love and John Dee reluctantly rediscovers Greek Fire. But their enemy is cunning, and fate fickle. Beale's plot is uncovered, and the Greek Fire stolen, and the Queen's would be assassins evade capture, only to reappear, bent on inflicting a grisly death on Her Majesty. Only one man can stop them. John Dee"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603; Dee, John, 1527-1608; Attempted assassination; Greek fire;
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- Operation Vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II / by Hampton, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Presents a narrative account of America's secret World War II mission to assassinate Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded the Pearl Harbor attacks.- Subjects: Yamamoto, Isoroku, 1884-1943; Operation Vengeance, 1943.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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- Long range / by Box, C. J.,author.;
"When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers -- and the shooter. The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski -- just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child -- falls under suspicion for the crime. It's a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate's name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe."--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Pickett, Joe (Fictitious character); Attempted assassination; Attempted murder; Bear attacks; Game wardens;
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- Long range [sound recording] / by Box, C. J.,author.; Chandler, David,1950-narrator.; Recorded Books, LLC,publisher.;
Read by David Chandler."When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers -- and the shooter. The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski -- just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child -- falls under suspicion for the crime. It's a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate's name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe."--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Pickett, Joe (Fictitious character); Attempted assassination; Attempted murder; Bear attacks; Game wardens;
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- The old enemy / by Porter, Henry,1953-author.;
"In this soaring third installment in internationally bestselling author Henry Porter's "timely and terrific" (Mick Herron) Firefly series, former MI6 agent Paul Samson must dodge several attempts on his own life in order to expose a shadowy and dangerous enemy of western democracy. Paul Samson is working for a private security company in London, tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin. Simultaneously, legendary spy Robert Harland is murdered in Estonia and billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami is poisoned with a neurotoxin while testifying before Congress. A second attempt on Samson's life sends him on the run to Estonia to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why. Soon it becomes clear that Hisami and Harland were running an investigation into a spectral former Stasi agent and her sprawling network of assets across industry and government in the US and the UK when they were attacked. Samson and Hisami's wife Anastasia must tap into their research and expose the spymaster before any more people are killed or agencies compromised. An astonishing and timely thriller examining the penetration of Russian assets into all levels of western life, The Old Enemy is a complex, breathtaking race against time from a master of the genre"--- Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Assassination; Billionaires; Man-woman relationships; Philanthropists; Private investigators; Revenge;
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- The runaway king / by Nielsen, Jennifer A.;
Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda, and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.LSC- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Kings and rulers; Attempted assassination; Princesses; Courts and courtiers; Conspiracies;
- © [2014], 2013., Scholastic,
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