Ken Follett
24) Jackdaws
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In his own best tradition of "Eye of the Needle" and "The Key to Rebecca, " Follett follows his major bestseller, "Code to Zero, " with a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II.
25) Alto riesgo
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2013
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Una acción trepidante, una misión de alto riesgo protagonizada por seis valientes mujeres como agentes encubiertos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. -- Cuando Flick intenta un asalto directo, la operación fracasa estrepitosamente. Su grupo resulta destruido, sus superiores empiezan a dudar de ella. Sólo le resta una última oportunidad para cumplir la misión. -- Reseña:«Una de las más populares novelas de Ken Follett.»Publishers Weekly
26) Doble juego
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Pub. Date
2013
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Un thriller sorprendente sobre la historia de un hombre que tiene 36 horas para ganar la carrera espacial. -- Luke se pone en marcha para averiguar su identidad, y comprende que su difícil situación tiene mucho que ver con las relaciones que trabó años atrás en la Universidad de Harvard, donde formó parte de un grupo de dos hombres y dos mujeres, unidos sentimentalmente entre sí pero situados sin saberlo en bandos opuestos del teatro político...
27) Whiteout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus--but he...
28) Paper money
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As various stories break--the awarding of an oil-drilling contract, a mammoth cash robbery, the blackmailing of a politician--awkward questions begin to tie the events together, but will the full story ever make the headlines? A tautly woven, intriguing story of a single day in the life of the London Evening Post.
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2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through four decades during which social and political upheaval and the internal politics of the church affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
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c1994
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is perhaps his most popular and enduring novel. In Pillars of the Almighty, the talents of photographer f-stop Fitzgerald bring the central image of Follett's masterpiece - the building of a Gothic cathedral - excitingly to life. Fitzgerald's photographs of world-famous cathedrals are magnificent by themselves. But by combining them with excerpts from Follett's novel, Fitzgerald has captured the challenge and...
32) Alto riesgo
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c2001
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Spanish translation of "Jackdaws". Charged with crippling communications in Europe before D-Day, Special Operations Executive "Flick" Clariet must pin her hopes on an all female group of nonprofessionals code-named the Jackdaws.
34) En el blanco
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c2005
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A Christmas Eve blizzard blows across Scotland, several people from a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the lab and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a secret.
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[2014]
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ESPIONAGE & SPY THRILLER. Lie Down with Lions: Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them... Eye of the Needle: One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest...