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Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
12 year old Jake's middle school is about to be shut down--unless...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
"In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet reaffirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication. Elliott Maraniss, David's father, a WWII...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 17
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
494 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Legendary spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon is back, and out for revenge, determined to hunt down the world's most dangerous terrorist.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (604 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
7) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns that on a secret farm behind enemy lines, Hitler has stockpiled the world's finest purebred horses in order to breed the perfect military machine--an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food. With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army's last great...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Autumn 1939. In Paris American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 450 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 572 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an FBI agent movies in across the street, they become ensnared...
12) The rental
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light..
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to thinke that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
14) Sabotaje
Author
Description
"Mayo de 1937. La Guerra Civil sigue su sangriento curso en Esp♯a, pero tambßn lejos de los campos de batalla se combate entre las sombras. Una doble misÞin lleva a Lorenzo FalÞc hasta Pars con el objetivo de intentar, de cualquier forma posible, que el Guernica que est pintando Pablo Picasso no llegue nunca a la ExposicÞin Universal donde la Re{250}pblica pretende conseguir apoyo internacional. Aunque ya se adivinan en Europa los vientos de...
15) Sabotaje
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Mayo de 1937. La Guerra Civil sigue su sangriento curso en Espąa, pero tambǐn lejos de los campos de batalla se combate entre las sombras. Una doble mis̤in lleva a Lorenzo Fal̤c hasta Pa̕rs con el objetivo de intentar, de cualquier forma posible, que el Guernica que es̀t pintando Pablo Picasso no llegue nunca a la Exposic̤in Universal donde la Re{250}pblica pretende conseguir apoyo internacional. Aunque ya se adivinan en Europa los vientos...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013, c2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
598 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cádiz, 1811: The Spanish port city has been besieged by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random women have begun to turn up throughout the city--victims of a shadowy killer. Police Comisario Rogelio Tizón has been assigned the case. Known for his razor-sharp investigation skills--as well as his brutal interrogation...
17) Crooked house
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1397 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Power, wealth, sex, glorious extravagance. One place has them all, Dallas. This saga chronicles the exploits of the Ewing family, the wealthy Texas oil millionaires.
19) Casa de esp©Ưas
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 17
Description
Legendary spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon is back, and out for revenge, determined to hunt down the world's most dangerous terrorist.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 438 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
TURN: Washington's Spies takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. In this season, the Patriot cause has suffered the crushing loss of their capital city of Philadelphia to the British. Washington's army faces desertion and death, and the embattled General faces conspirators from within his own ranks, as well as personal demons he keeps hidden from the men he leads. Washington s closest...