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"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
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"Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before [now] has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape"--Amazon.com.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spyduring the Cold War.
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English
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
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HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Frustrated by the Cuban government's response to his music, and after meeting American jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval secretly plans to escape to the U.S. Based on a true story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Chosen from millions of children to serve in Mao's cultural revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, Li knew ballet would be his family's best opportunity to escape the bitter poverty in his rural China home. From one hardship to another, Li persevered, never forgetting the family he left behind.
9) White nights
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Soviet dancer, who has defected to the West, is suddenly trapped in Russia and must attempt to escape again, with the aid of an American tap dancer who regrets having defected to the Soviet Union.
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Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
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Full screen version.
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1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence," Bloomingdale's. He wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Although Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love what seems to him a strange and wondrous land.
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HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2022.
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xii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship. The first time she ran, she was forced to abandon her father on his deathbed--crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In China she was sold to a farmer, with whom she had a son, before being denounced and...
12) Matterhorn
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn’t dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya—his close friend, his rival in...
13) Betrayal
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
14) Fake truth
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English
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Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures, but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he's stuck with the actress - and suffering a nasty case of writer's block - when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using "fake news" to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie. The only weapon Ian has against the global conspiracy, and the assassins...
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Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
256 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The long-running "Ask a North Korean" column produced by NK News in Washington D.C. invites readers to ask questions of recent North Korean defectors about everyday issues that are not generally discussed in the media. Various aspects of life in North Korea are discussed in this book through a series of interviews . These interviews show that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, there is still a degree of normality and continuity.
Series
James Bond ultimate edition volume 1
Language
English
Description
James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker.
Publisher
Lober Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This film reveals the extraordinary stories, told by survivors of North Korea's vast prison camps, of deadly famine, and of every kind of repression. Their experiences are interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored, and whose every thought could bring official retribution."--Container.
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