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FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
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Aunties volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts--he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
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As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Loyola University. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese,...
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760L
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English
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Sharlot Citra is whisked from Los Angeles to her mother's native Indonesia, where she finds herself fake dating the son of one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia, and she is surprised when she actually starts to fall in love with the boy, the country, and the big family she never knew before.
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Newbery Medal award volume 1948
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
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"Jim, first mate on board the Patna, is a simple and sensitive young man who dreams of becoming a hero. But when the Patna threatens to sink, Jim takes the cowardly way out and jumps clear. His unbearable guilt and shame at having violated the unwritten moral code of the sea leads him to become an exile in a remote Malay state. There he fashions a new identity for himself as the benevolent ruler of an exotic land--until his idyll is interrupted."...
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Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xv, 382 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch families--had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita's family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie. Mary Vischer is three months pregnant...
11) Fear of landing
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Canadian veterinarian Abner Dueck travels to Indonesia in the 1980s for a project examining dead cows. When some cows and two friends die under mysterious circumstances, Dueck must try to find the truth. He will first need to understand the culture and the effect on Indonesian life of the 1966 massacres.
12) Thief of glory
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English
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"This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.
15) Sudden impact
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
461 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Crash at Cannibal Valley: When their small plane goes down in an area in Indonesia inhabited by cannibals, Spitfire and his family have their faith in God tested as they fight to survive against all odds.
Terror in Branco Grande: Kate senses trouble even before her father agrees to transport "relief supplies" to South America, and when he is arrested, she and her brother attempt to prove his innocence.
Disaster in the Yukon: When a blizzard traps...
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Series
Harlequin presents volume 3993
Publisher
Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The opulence of Santiago Tevez's lifestyle is incomprehensible to orphan Kitty O'Hanlon. But their indecently hot chemistry leads virgin Kitty to spend one extraordinary and wildly out-of-character night with him in Bali! Weeks later, heart in mouth, she prepares to tell Santiago she's pregnant. But Kitty needs more than just his exquisite touch and the security he promises. She needs the love she's never had, the love her baby deserves, the love...
18) Gold
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
20) Captive embraces
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Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
631 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Torn apart by the death of their son, Sirena finds herself abandoned by Regan and sets out to regain his love, initiating a bitter struggle for power, revenge, and passion.