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1) Night heron

Author

Brookes, Adam

Series

Philip Mangan

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Former British spy Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction from Beijing.

2) Spy games

Author

Brookes, Adam

Series

Philip Mangan

Pub. Date

2015.

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Language

English

Description

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A sequel to Night Heron finds journalist Philip Mangan embroiled in a life-threatening conspiracy involving local unrest in East Africa and his failures in Beijing.

3) Fragile cargo: the World War II race to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City

Author

Brookes, Adam

Pub. Date

2023.

Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Language

English

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"The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond"--

4) The spy's daughter

Author

Brookes, Adam

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First U.S. mass market edition.

Language

English

5) Love times three: our true story of a polygamous marriage

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Description

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"For decades, Utah's polygamous families have sought to remain out of sight and out of mind. Men in particular risk prosecution and economic blacklisting when their multiple marriages become known. But now, Joe, Alina, Vickie and Valerie Darger will open up their lives in this personal book-length account of their lives. An attractive, suburban family that look like your average American, they live in the suburbs of Salt Lake City with twenty of their...

6) Pierre Soulages: a century

Author

Pacquement, Alfred

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"This fully illustrated volume reproduces works by French painter Pierre Soulages (born 1919) from the 1950s to the present, illustrating his enduring role in the dialogue between European and American painting and inviting viewers to consider an oeuvre that has injected profound poetry into abstraction through its adherence to a single material: black paint. With a Plexiglas cover in honor of Soulages stained-glass windows at the Abbey Church of...