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Machine vendetta / by Reynolds, Alastair,1966-author.;
Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization? As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench's attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Death; Murder; Police; Space colonies; Vendetta;
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Shadow of doubt : a thriller / by Thor, Brad,author.;
"A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia's most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it's going or what it's carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA's most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country. You'll be left breathless as Harvath is swept into a whirlwind of double agents, international intrigue, and heart-stopping chases"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Harvath, Scot (Fictitious character); Conspiracies; Defectors; Intelligence officers; Spies;
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Cranford. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Annis, Francesca,1944-; Atkins, Eileen,1934-; Birtwistle, Sue.; Conklin, Susie.; Curtis, Simon,1960-; Davis, Carl,1936-; Dench, Judi,1934-; Gambon, Michael.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.CranfordVideorecording.; Glenister, Philip.; Jennings, Alex.; Manville, Lesley.; McKenzie, Julia.; Staunton, Imelda,1953-; Thomas, Heidi,1967-; Wise, Greg,1966-; 2 Entertain (Firm); BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Chestermead Ltd.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Music, Carl David.Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Philip Glenister, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Greg Wise, Lesley Manville, Alex Jennings, Dean Lennox Kelly.The specter of the railroad looming heavy in her conscience, Miss Matty (Judi Dench) rejoices upon learning that her maid Martha (Claudie Blakley) and carpenter Jem (Andrew Buchan) are expecting a child. Miss Matty's concern for young Peggy Bell (Jodie Whittaker) growing due to the fact that the young girl lives in virtual seclusion with her mother and overbearing brother, the kindly matriarch attempts to bring the two siblings together with William (Tom Hiddleston) and his cousin Erminia (Michelle Dockery) , who have recently returned to Cranford with Mr. Buxton (Jonathan Pryce). Meanwhile, Captain Brown (Jim Carter) receives word that work on the line has ceased, and scrambles to get the project back on track. Later, a sudden tragedy sends the entire town reeling.PG.DVD, region 1; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.; Female friendship; Gossip; Market towns; Older women; Single women; Social norms; Television mini-series.;
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Shadow of doubt [sound recording] : a thriller / by Thor, Brad,author.; Schultz, Armand,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Armand Schultz."A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia's most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it's going or what it's carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA's most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country. You'll be left breathless as Harvath is swept into a whirlwind of double agents, international intrigue, and heart-stopping chases"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Harvath, Scot (Fictitious character); Conspiracies; Defectors; Intelligence officers; Spies;
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Permanent record / by Snowden, Edward J.,1983-author.;
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online-- a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Snowden, Edward J., 1983-; United States. National Security Agency; WikiLeaks (Organization); Government information; Domestic intelligence; Electronic surveillance; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Whistle blowing;
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The deep dark descending / by Eskens, Allen,1963-author.;
"Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for. On a frozen lake near the US-Canadian border, he wrestles witha decision that could change his life forever, as his hatred threatens to turn him into the kind of person he has spent a career bringing to justice"--"A homicide detective hunts down his wife's killers while struggling between his thirst for revenge and a twinge of conscience forbidding him to take the law into his own hands"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Revenge; Widowers;
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Meghan misunderstood / by Smith, Sean,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Meghan was eleven when she first advocated for women's rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress when she campaigned for clean water in Africa and passionately championed gender equality in a speech to a United Nations Women's Conference. Even before she met Prince Harry, hers was an extraordinarily accomplished life. Meghan's wedding to Harry was a joyful occasion, marking happiness at last for the Queen's grandson who had captured our hearts twenty years earlier when he bravely walked behind his mother Diana's coffin. Theirs was a story that the screenwriters of Hollywood, where Meghan had made her name, could scarcely have imagined. Sean Smith reveals the remarkable and powerful story of this self-made, intelligent American woman with a strong social conscience who has made such an impact on our lives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 1981-; Princesses; Television actors and actresses; Women philanthropists;
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Munich / by Harris, Robert,1957-author.;
"Set over four days against the backdrop of the Munich Conference of September 1938, Munich follows the fortunes of two men who were friends at Oxford together in the 1920s. Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Guy is 34 years old, and married to the beautiful and brittle Kay. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. They have not been in contact for more than a decade. But when Guy flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Rikard travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a collision course--with dramatic results. Munich is a spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, filled with real-life characters--Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--and actual events."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.;
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Out of the darkness : the Germans, 1942-2022 / by Trentmann, Frank,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel's tenure in 2021, Germany appeared to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming more than one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. Frank Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait spanning eighty years of the conflicted people at the center of Europe, showing how the Germans became who they are today. 'Out of the Darkness' is a gripping and nuanced history of the German people from WWII to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation.
Subjects: Collective memory; Group identity; National characteristics, German.;
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Mrs Death misses death / by Godden, Salena Saliva,author.;
Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced - or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated - their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans' fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her ...
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Authors; Death; Fate and fatalism; Friendship; Shapeshifting; Time travel;
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