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Duke Classics
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English
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John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). In the past hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. It remains Buchan's most famous work.
It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a steely determination and an extraordinary...
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English
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service 'to investigate historical over-reaching.' Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and [allow] Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
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Series
Tu rostro manana volume 2
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
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Jamie, Jacobo, Jacques, Jack Deza continua relatando su historia en Baile y sueno, segunda parte de Tu rostro manana. Tras la cena celebranda en casa de Sir peter Wheeler, Jacobo regresa a su hogar seguido por una misteriosa mujer que va a proponerle que por ella traicione y mienta o calle y asi la salve. Mas tarde, en su habitacion, Jacobo piensa en Luisa, su esposa, en lo que ella le contraba y ha dejado de contarle. Tambien en su padre, en lo ques...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a 'sisterhood' of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The Americans, from executive producer Joe Weisberg, is the critically acclaimed series about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The series is centered on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings, who have two children - 13-year-old Page (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents'...