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The matchmaker : a spy in Berlin / by Vidich, Paul,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her marriage is as it seems. She had been targeted by the Matchmaker--a high level East German counterintelligence officer--who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his "Romeos" who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been married to a spy, and now he has disappeared, and is presumably dead. The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close ties to the KGB. They believe he can establish the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. They need Anne because she's the only person who has seen his face - from a photograph that her husband mistakenly left out in his office - and she is the CIA's best chance to identify him before the Matchmaker escapes to Moscow. Time is running out as the Berlin Wall falls and chaos engulfs East Germany. But what if Anne's husband is not dead? And what if Anne has her own motives for finding the Matchmaker to deliver a different type of justice?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Cold War; Intelligence officers; Intelligence service;
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Twilight Time. by Hughes, John,film director.; Antidote Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Antidote Films in 2024.TWILIGHT TIME is a gripping profile of one of the world’s greatest scholars of military strategy and defence, the Australian professor Desmond Ball-–the man who unflinchingly examined Cold War nuclear strategy and advocated for the sovereign defence of Australia.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Science.; Australians.; Foreign study.; Military history..; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; History.; Nuclear weapons.; Cold War.; Political participation.; Nuclear energy.; Australia.;
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Sled dog : powerful miracle / by Person, Stephen.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31), Internet addresses, and index.LSC
Subjects: Sled dogs;
© c2011., Bearport Pub.,
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Back to the garden : a novel / by King, Laurie R.,author.;
"A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences--in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California-and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago. Inspector Raquel Laing of the SFPD Cold Case Unit has her work cut out for her. Back in the '70s, the Estate was a commune, when its young heir, Rob Gardener, turned the palatial setting into a counterculture Eden of peace, love, and equality. But the '70s were also a time when serial killers preyed on such innocents-monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just assumed a whole new urgency. Could these bones belong to one of his victims? For Raquel Laing-a woman who knows all about hidden turmoil and eccentricities-the Gardener bones seem clearly linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives for evidence of his presence, what she finds there begins to take on a dark reality of its own. Everything brings her back to Rob Gardener himself-now a gray-haired recluse, then a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate, fifty years ago. But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer, when the commune fell apart and its residents scattered: a young woman, her child, Rob's brother Fort. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case--before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Communal living; Counterculture; Missing persons; Murder; Policewomen; Serial murder investigation;
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Caribou : and reindeer, too / by Markovics, Joyce L.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31), Internet addresses, and index.LSC
Subjects: Caribou; Reindeer;
© c2011., Bearport Pub.,
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Plagued by quilt / by MacRae, Molly.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Ghost stories.; Rutledge, Kath (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Excavations (Archaeology); Murder; Specialty stores; Storekeepers; Ghosts; Farms;
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Head cases : a novel / by McMahon, John,1970-author.;
"Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying-and commercial-series debut. Gardner Camden is a walking analytical brain with an affinity for riddles, puzzles, and codes. It makes him the perfect fit for the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit of the FBI, a team of five brilliant but misfit agents tasked with solving cold cases. Gardner's smart, but he's all business--except for his seven-year-old daughter and occasional visits to his elderly mother, he prioritizes his work and justice over everything else, no matter the cost. With rumors of PAR about to be disbanded, the team can't afford to make any mistakes. A serial killer from one of Gardner's solved cases, presumed to be dead for over a decade, is found murdered, and then soon after, another body with a similar story. The mastermind murderer has left clues and riddles for Gardner and his team--a mathematician, a sniper and weapons expert, a computer analytics specialist, and their leader, a career agent--as they track him across the country. With the threat of PAR dissolving, Gardner must work to solve the riddles before it's too late. McMahon's suspenseful and irresistible thriller confronts the scales of justices in the face of a twisted vengeance plot as this engaging cast of characters works together to stop a misguided vigilante"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Vigilantes;
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The ladies road guide to utter ruin / by Goodman, Alison,author.;
"In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as "old maids" to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just unmarried ladies of a certain age-hardly worth a second glance. But the Colebrook twins are far from useless old maids. They are secretly protecting women and children ignored by society and the law. When Lord Evan-a charming escaped convict who has won Gus's heart-needs to hide his sister and her lover from their vindictive brother, Gus and Julia take the two women into their home. They know what it is like to have a powerful and overbearing brother. But Lord Evan's complicated past puts them all in danger. Gus knows they must clear his name of murder if he is to survive the thieftakers who hunt him. But it is no easy task-the fatal duel was twenty years ago and a key witness is nowhere to be found. In a deadly cat-and-mouse game, Gus, Julia, and Lord Evan must dodge their pursuers and investigate Lord Evan's past. They will be thrust into the ugly underworld of Georgian gentlemen's clubs, spies, and ruthless bounty hunters, not to mention the everyday threat of narrow-minded brothers. Will the truth be found in time, or will the dangerous secrets from the past destroy family bonds and rip new love and lives apart?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Aristocracy (Social class); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Escaped prisoners; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Single women; Sisters; Twins;
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The secrets we kept / by Prescott, Lara,author.;
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops and invisibly ferry classified documents. The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story--the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara--with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak's country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag, from Washington, DC, to Paris and Milan, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature--told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the centre of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Cold War; Private secretaries; Man-woman relationships;
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The dry [videorecording] / by Bana, Eric,actor,film producer.; Baroo, Eddie,1968-actor.; Bettencourt, Bebe,actor.; Blake, Julia,1936-actor.; Connolly, Robert,1967-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Corlett, Sam,actor.; Cripps, Harry,screenwriter.; Frecheville, James,actor.; Frederiksen, Daniel,actor.; Hutensky, Steve,film producer.; Klocek, Joe,actor.; Lim, Renee,actor.; Matterson, Jodi,film producer.; Nable, Matt,actor.; O'Donnell, Keir,actor.; O'Reilly, Genevieve,1977-actor.; Papandrea, Bruna,1971-film producer.; Polson, John,1965-actor.; Scott-Mitchell, Claude,actor.; Spence, Bruce,actor.; Tapsell, Miranda,actor.; Taylor, Jeremy Lindsay,actor.; Zappa, William,1948-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Harper, Jane(Jane Elizabeth).Dry.; Arenamedia (Firm),production company.; Film Victoria,presenter.; IFC Films,publisher.; Made Up Stories (Firm),production company.; Pick Up Truck Pictures,production company.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.; Screen Australia,presenter.;
Director of photography, Stefan Duscio ; editors, Nick Meyers, Alexandre de Franceschi ; music, Peter Raeburn.Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, William Zappa, Matt Nable, James Frecheville, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Joe Klocek, Bebe Bettencourt, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Sam Corlett, Miranda Tapsell, Daniel Frederiksen, Eddie Baroo, Renee Lim.For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies. Separated by oceans of time, it would appear that these crimes are still connected.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence and language throughout.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Best friends; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Droughts; Homecoming; Homicide investigation; Murder; Secrecy; Truthfulness and falsehood;
For private home use only.
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