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Jackpot [sound recording] / by Woods, Stuart,author.; Roberts, Tony,1939-narrator.; Quertermous, Bryon,author.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Tony Roberts.When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue ... and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't about to let Teddy stand in their way. What they don't know is that this seemingly harmless film producer has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Film festivals; Intelligence officers; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The devil's sea / by Cussler, Dirk,author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Pitt, Dirk (Fictitious character); Aircraft accidents; Antiquities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The devil's sea [sound recording] / by Cussler, Dirk,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Cussler, Clive,creator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Audiobooks.; Pitt, Dirk (Fictitious character); Aircraft accidents; Antiquities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ghost girl, banana : a novel / by Wharton, Wiz,1969-author.;
"Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and wet England, Sook-Yin realizes that, like so many transplants, she must carve out a destiny of her own to survive. Thirty years later in London, having lost her mother as a small child, biracial misfit Lily can only remember what Maya, her preternaturally perfect older sister, has told her about Sook-Yin. Unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger, Lily embarks on a secret pilgrimage across the world to discover the lost side of her identity and claim the reward. But just as change is coming to Hong Kong, so Lily learns Maya's secrecy about their past has deep roots, and that good fortune comes at a price. Heartfelt, wry and achingly real, Ghost Girl, Banana marks the stunning debut of a writer-to-watch"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Chinese; Mothers and daughters; Quests (Expeditions); Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the shadow of the mountain : a memoir of courage / by Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia,author.;
"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent-the restricted oxygen at altitude, the vast expanse of emptiness around her, the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains, the nearness of death-woke her up. And then, she took her biggest pain to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her, their strength and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, gratitude for the strong women in our lives, and faith in our own resilience"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia.; Hispanic Americans; Mountaineers; Women in technology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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New cold wars : China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West / by Sanger, David E.,author.; Brooks, Mary K.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries -- Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia -- based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
Subjects: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Xi, Jinping.; Cold War.; Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022.; Strategic rivalries (World politics);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Day of the Dragon King / by Osborne, Mary Pope.; Murdocca, Sal.;
The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.Reading level : 2.3 ; 006-009
Subjects: Time travel; China--History--Han dynesty, 202B.C.-220A.D.; Magic; Tree houses;
© c1998., Random House,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rabbit moon : a novel / by Haigh, Jennifer,1968-author.;
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit and run accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. The accident unearths a deeper fissure in the family: the shocking event that ended the Litvaks' marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, she has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings in bustling, cosmopolitan Shanghai, the newly prosperous "miracle city," they face troubling questions about Lindsey's life there, in which nothing is quite as it seems. With Jennifer Haigh's trademark psychological acuity, Rabbit Moon is a taut, suspenseful story about the ties of marriage that no divorce can sever, and the fabled red thread that pulls two sisters together across time and space.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Divorced people; Families; Parent and child; Sisters; Traffic accidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tintin in Tibet / by Herge,1907-1983;
Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.
Subjects: Tintin (Fictitious character); Friendship; Graphic novels;
© 2002, c1962., Egmont,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wilful blindness : how a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West / by Cooper, Sam,author.; Burton, Charles,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. That day they would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the CCP and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the CCP's domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. In 'Wilful Blindness', Sam Cooper reveals how BC government officials were aware of and potentially complicit in the resulting dirty money laundering scandal. Cooper is an award-winning Canadian journalist based in Ottawa, ON, cited as one of Canadas top investigative reporters.
Subjects: Criminal investigation; Law enforcement; Organized crime; Transnational crime; Money laundering; Organized crime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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