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Author
Series
Bedwyn saga volume 5
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead, only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. The dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there, but he vows to make the angel who nurses him back to health his wife.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career...
Author
Publisher
Big Mouth House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possbile.
"The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border -- unless you enjoy a fireworks...
4) The hostage
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
Department of Homeland Security agent Charley Castillo conducts a discreet investigation involving a murdered diplomat's brother-in-law, a man possessing key information about the scandalous United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. On their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she's returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria's royal palace. Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what...
Author
Language
English
Description
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When a diplomat disappears and war threatens to break out, it is up to a Lu, a soldier, Vex, a pirate, and Benat, a prince to help determine the fate of their countries.
Five years ago Adeluna helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Agrid, a country ruled by religion. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray's new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-- and Lu suspects something dangerous...
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Once a senior diplomat in Kiev, Simon Davey lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is traveling on the Tube when he sees her. . . . This woman, Olesya, is the person Simon holds responsible for his downfall. He first met her on an icy night during the protests on Independence Square. Full of hope and idealism, Olesya could not know what a crucial role she would play in the dangerous...
11) Teddy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lessons in Chemistry meets Mad Men in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rome in the late 1960s, which follows the free-spirited wife of an American diplomat as she desperately tries to contain a scandal of her own making. It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue: the stars of Cinecittà are drinking and dancing along the paparazzo-lined Via Veneto, where royalty, American expats, and the occasional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Courtneys meet the Ballantynes in this epic African adventure where the British are forced to intervene in a fierce rebellion. Ryder Courtney is trapped in Khartoum where he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne against the bloody backdrop of the siege of Khatoum.
13) Munich
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
14) Fresh start
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Ollie Herisson's dad is a diplomat, which means her family moves around a lot. She has already lived in Singapore, Korea, France, and the United States. When Ollie starts at a new school, she doesn't worry about making a good impression because she knows that when her family inevitably moves again, she'll get a fresh start somewhere else. A complete reset. It doesn't matter if her classmates think she's weird for pretending that she lives in the...
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