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Christmas volume 17
Language
English
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"As beautiful as it may be, their friends' country home is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Christmas with her new husband, Victor Narraway. She'd rather pass a relaxing holiday at home with him--especially because Victor, former head of the London Special Branch, seems to be hiding some undercover dealings with the other guests who have gathered in the spacious home. As tensions grow among the couples, the young and beautiful Iris Watson-Watt...
2) Never
Author
Language
English
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1098 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continues the experiences of five intertwined international families as they confront the social, political, and economic turmoil of the second half of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces key events, witnessed by the author, throughout the past fifty years, assesses the evolution of global democracy, and discusses how it is under attack throughout the world.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
29 sound discs (approximately 37 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to Ken Follett's historical series that follows the fortunes of five intertwined families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most chaotic eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1990s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential...
