Filter By Subjects
Cold War (1945-1989) Cold War Fiction Cold War Juvenile fiction Guerre froide Romans, nouvelles, etc Intelligence officers Intelligence officers United States Fiction United States United States History 1945-1953 Fiction United States. Central Intelligence Agency Fiction United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Filter By Subjects
Cold War (1945-1989) Cold War Fiction Cold War Juvenile fiction Guerre froide Romans, nouvelles, etc Intelligence officers Intelligence officers United States Fiction United States United States History 1945-1953 Fiction United States. Central Intelligence Agency Fiction United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Walsh, Liam Francis
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Cameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In 1946, special agent James Cronley Jr. uncovers evidence of a stolen fortune in the hands of Odessa while tracking down two escaped Nazi war criminals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, emerging without a past or a future. Now it's 1949, and the government that stole Aphra's life needs her help. FBI Agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMRFesperman, Dan
Summary: "A new novel from Dan Fesperman is always a twisty, well-plotted, intelligent delight. And Safe Houses is no exception. The germ of the story begins in West Berlin in 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. But during her routine inspection of an agency...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FESGobbell, John J.
Summary: It is 1968, a time when global upheaval seemed the norm. The war in Southeast Asia rages along with prolonged civil unrest at home. Amongst all this, turncoat Navy Warrant Officer Johnie Walker begins an extended relationship with the Soviet Union by selling top-secret crypto key lists. This prompts the Soviets to order their friends, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), to seize...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: StarboardSide Productions 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOBGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2016Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments couldn't be bigger: protect the US chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, and dismantle Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIKanon, Joseph
Summary: "Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANCole, Tom Clohosy
Summary: Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIKrasikov, Sana
Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAYelchin, Eugene
Summary: It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake's mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YELUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLCameron, Marc
Summary: 1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACondon, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1959
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONReay, Katherine
Summary: "From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she's expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments -- especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s -- Luisa's work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Boyd, William
Summary: Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother's life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes of Europe in the grip of the Cold War. When he is offered the chance to interview Patrice Lumumba, newly elected president of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECameron, Marc
Summary: "In 1985 an F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAMDuns, Jeremy
Summary: In June 1945, Paul Dark, an M16 agent, joins his father in a top-secret mission to hunt down and unofficially execute Nazi war criminals. But everything Dark thinks he understands about the operation, about its repercussions and about Anna--the woman he falls in love with during the assignment--is a lie. When, almost twenty-five years later, a defecting KGB officer turns up in Nigeria and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLHerron, Mick.
Summary: London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERLawton, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWPitoniak, Anna
Summary: "Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022