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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
A small vault of documents is hidden from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The location of…
the vault is kept secret for thirty years, until a power struggle forces a search for it. Strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1976.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Disabilities fiction, Family stories, General fiction
Human-narrated audio
Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen, born in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their mother, are raised…
by Aunt Lovey, who refuses to see them as deformed. At age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story. Rose shares her darkest memory and her deepest regret, while Ruby, the prettier, more practical twin, offers critical details, such as what prompted Rose to write their life story. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Romance, War stories
Human-narrated audio
In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Romance, Historical romance
Human-narrated audio
French Revolution. British spy William Doyle, disguised as a book salesman, meets French aristocrat Marguerite de Fleurignac. Believing she knows…
about a list of men targeted for murder, William offers to escort her to Paris - not realizing Marguerite's dangerous secret. Some descriptions of violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2010. (Spymaster series)
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
Human-narrated audio
Sally, blind as a result of an accident, lives a sheltered life with her grandparents, until Jamie Finn from America arrives, and everything seems suddenly to change. 1978.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
As King George V travels to Delhi for his coronation as emperor of India, a British intelligence officer stumbles across a plot to kill the king. Some strong language. 1982.
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Family stories, Serious and literary fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)
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Adventure stories, General fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
Six ex-soldier desperados are recruited by the Indian army for a hush-hush mission. They are to blow up an 18,000-foot-high Himalayan peak. Then Nixon announces his visit to Peking. 1973.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
The target is royal; the game is revenge. Stretched topless upon the foredeck, drink in hand, her flawless skin baking…
in the sun, was the most famous woman in the world. And one deck below, preparing an appetizer of tuna tartare, cucumber, and pineapple, was the man who was going to kill her. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Sequel to "The heist", followed by "The black widow". 2015.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction
Human-narrated audio
Sixteen-year-old Libby is disabled by cerebral palsy. She writes a fantasy novel called The Discovery of Flight as a present…
for her sister Sophie's thirteenth birthday, in which Libby takes the form of a hawk telepathically linked to a girl who resembles Sophie. Interwoven with Libby's novel is Sophie's diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister. 2018.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
After being told that his agency has been hacked, the director of the CIA launches a hunt into the hacker underground of Europe and America. 2014.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories
Human-narrated audio
Senator Vinny Duto, a former CIA director, sends ex-agent John Wells to investigate leads about a station chief’s planned assassination.…
Meanwhile, John’s girlfriend Anne has given John a month to give up either his job or her. 2014.
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Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Soviet intelligence officer Andrei Yakushev is pledged to destroy the leader of an underworld network in Afghanistan. CIA agent Mike…
McCabe is dropped behind the lines and is destined to play a crucial role in the series of events that unfold. 1987.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Stolen from the Fuehrerbunker in 1945 and then mysteriously lost to the world, the diary kept by Hitler's valet surfaces in a New York publishing house 35 years later. 1983.
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Disabilities fiction, General fiction, Romance
Human-narrated audio
Caney Paxton, a Vietnam vet who has lost the use of his legs, runs a small roadside cafe in Sequoyah,…
Oklahoma. The regulars at the Honk and Holler are surprised when Caney hires first a Native American waitress and later a Vietnamese cook. The two newcomers soon bring life to the cafe's humdrum routine. 1998.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
Smiley goes to the Far East to track down what appears to be a leak of Soviet gold into Hong Kong. Some strong language. c1977.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Disabilities fiction, General fiction
Human-narrated audio
John Singer, a deaf-mute whose only friend has been committed to an insane asylum, is forced to listen and not…
"talk." He becomes the confidant of several people, but they do not recognize his problems.