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A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world’s center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
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John Corey novels volume 7
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English
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Taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group, John Corey must track down Vasily Petrov, a Russian colonel posing as a diplomat, when he mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton.
3) On China
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2011
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English
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Reveals how China's past relationships with other nations informs us about its 21st-century trajectory, drawing on historical records as well as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author's talks with Chinese leaders to explain the country's intricate policy-making process and its emerging role as a global superpower.
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2018.
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—comes a revelatory inside account of US-Russia relations across the three decades following the Cold War.
In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right...
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the less-recognized fronts of twenty-first-century warfare, identifying ongoing battles currently being waged, from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry, often without public awareness.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises that bring the United States and China to the brink of war.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 20
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English
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"When a high-level mole infiltrates American Intelligence, President Jack Ryan dispatches John Clark and the Campus team to track down a missing scientist who holds critical aerospace and naval technology"--
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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Abducted by Hezbollah forces while trying to secure the Israeli-Lebanon border for a long-awaited peace agreement, Special Agent Marcus Ryker navigates delicate political challenges to prevent his own broadcasted execution.
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Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Reveals how the United States has struggled to adapt to the new era of guerilla conflict, causing military losses and political disasters, and outlines a strategy of military engagement and diplomacy to help the nation withdraw from unsuccessful campaigns.
20) The United States enters the world stage: from the Alaska purchase through World War I, 1867-1919
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2000
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IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
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