Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio)

Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio

Blurb: The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran - now a major Ben Affleck film

On 4 November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage. Beneath the crisis another shocking story was known by only a select few: six Americans escaped the embassy and hid within the city.

A top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet risky plan to rescue them. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of CIA operatives, foreign agents and special-effects artists, Mendez travelled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science-fiction film called Argo.

After three decades, Antonio Mendez finally details this extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the pulse-pounding account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

ISBN: 9780241964590 (Paperback)

Year: 1980

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 310 (Non-Fiction)

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There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (Hazel Edwards; Illustrated by Deborah Niland)

There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake

Hazel Edwards; Illustrated by Deborah Niland

Blurb: 'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'

This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children for 30 years!

ISBN: 9780734309853 (Paperback)

Year: 1980

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

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1. Publishers' page

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3. Illustrator's official site

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The Nearest Fire - Torin Trilogy #2 (Cherry Wilder)

The Nearest Fire - Torin Trilogy #2

Cherry Wilder

Blurb: Scott Gale, once a lieutenant on a bio-survey mission from earth, crash landed on another world. He is now called Diver and he is the Luck of Brin's Five - a full member of a Moruian Family. He has to find his way back to his spacecraft and the human crew waiting for him without being discovered by his enemies.

The Nearest Fire.

Yolo Harn learns of political intrigue against Scott Gale, the human who crash landed on her world. He is in terrible danger. So she begins a greuling search for the humans on her world. When she finally reaches the three earthpeople she has to face their fire-metal-magic and overcome her fear of their spacecraft. And she must learn to speak their language before she can tell them that their crewmate is still alive.

ISBN: 073225132X (Paperback)

Year: 1980

Publisher: Harper Collins

Pages: 237 (Fiction)

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5. Fantasy Fiction page for the author

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Blurb: The graues flood tennatlesse, and the sheeted dead

Did squeake and gibber in the Roman streets

The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play.

Edited by T.J.B. Spencer. Introduced by Anne Barton

ISBN: 0140707344 (Paperback)

Year: 1603 / 1980

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 384 (Fiction)

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1. Sparks Notes

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3. Full text of the play

4. Summary of the work

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Volume Two in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Volume Two in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Blurb: If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

This is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a spaceship how to make a proper cup of tea.

And did anyone actually make a reservation?

ISBN: 9780330508599 (Paperback)

Year: 1980

Publisher: Pan Books

Pages: 200 (Fiction)

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