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The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene |
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … |
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Shadow magic
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Jaida Jones |
From the widely acclaimed authors of Havemercy comes this stunning new epic fantasy, set in the chaotic aftermath of a hundred years of war. Here, amidst the treacherous dance of diplomacy and betray… |
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The man on Mao's right
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Chaozhu Ji |
No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right. Having served Cha… |
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There and back again
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K. M. Shehabuddin |
Autobiographical reminiscences of K. M. Shehabuddin, diplomat from Bangladesh and the political conditions of Bangladesh post 1971. |
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The Vatican Pimpernel
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Brian Fleming |
During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty devoted his time and energy to running an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians. By the time the Allies e… |
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Master of shadows
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Mark Lamster |
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with… |
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Diplomate en Lettonie, 1938-1940
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Jean de Beausse,Matthieu Boisdron,Jacques de Beausse |
Jean de Beausse fut premier secrétaire de l’ambassade de France à Riga entre 1938 et 1940. Son journal est un témoignage de premier ordre, qui relate de l'intérieur l'effondrement de la Lettonie, mis… |
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The accidental wedding
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Anne Gracie |
After being nursed back to health by Maddy Woodford, a lovely country girl who has five orphaned half-siblings in her charge, diplomat Nash Renfrew pretends that he still has amnesia so that he can s… |
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The foreign office mind
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Thomas G. Otte |
With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, elite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy… |
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Duarte da Ponte Ribeiro
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Luís Cláudio Villafañe G. Santos |
Description of Duarte da Ponte Ribeiros´s three missions to Lima (1829-1831), (1837-1841) (1851). Ponte Ribeiro was the first Brazilian diplomatic agent to live in Peru. |
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Star Trek - A Singular Destiny
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Keith R. A. DeCandido |
The shape of things to come.
The cataclysmic events of Star Trek: Destiny have devastated known space. Worlds have fallen. Lives have been destroyed. And in the uneasy weeks that follow, the survivo… |
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The hostage
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William E. Butterworth III |
The second novel in W. E. B. Griffin's new bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo investigating the death of an American diplomat in Argentina, the kidnapping of the diplomat's … |
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Curtain Raisers
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K. Natwar-Singh |
By an Indian civil servant. |
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The American mission
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Matthew Palmer |
A disgraced former State Department star starts over at a Congo mining facility that's being oppressed by corrupt interests. |
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Amanecer en el desierto
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Waris Dirie,D'Haem, Jeanne/ Dirie, Waris |
Waris Dirie se convirtió en modelo internacional, y rostro habitual de los productos Revlon. Pero esta supermodelo no ha olvidado sus duros orígenes, la circuncisión a la que fue sometida a los cinco… |
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Wüstenblume
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Cathleen Miller,Waris Dirie,Miller |
Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia … |
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The imperial season
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William Seale |
"Between the Spanish American War and World War I, the thrill of America's new international role in the world held the nation's capital in rapture. Visionaries gravitated to Washington and sought to… |
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Roads not taken
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Aleksandr Ėtkind |
William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) was the most cosmopolitan U.S. diplomat of his time. Voted most brilliant in his class at Yale, he wrote novels, plays, essays, and coauthored a controversial bi… |
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Outpost
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Christopher R. Hill |
"An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who--in a career of service to the country--was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the… |
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Death among rubies
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Richard J. Koreto |
Lady Frances Ffolkes is incensed when she finds out that her dear friends Gwendolyn and Thomasina have been subject to vicious threats. Promising to uncover their attacker, she travels with them to K… |
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