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"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world - rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
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Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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2018.
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English
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"Court Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats' plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby -- the Syrian president's only male heir -- hidden away in a Damascus safe house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the price of the mistress's life....
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"Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile collectibles-but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Garcia...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted...
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2010
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Español
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En 2002, Ingrid Betancourt, candidata a la presidencia de Colombia, fue secuestrada. Este libro es el relato de sus seis años y medio de cautiverio a manos de la FARC, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.
In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt, a candidate for the presidency of Colombia, was kidnapped. This book tells about the six and a half years that she was held hostage by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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