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Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie battles the rebels--and recovers dark memories from her past. She must question everything to find a truth that will either save her world--or shatter it"--
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 18
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague,Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling story: a woman, accused of being rude to a valued customer, has been wrongly dismissed from her job at an office furniture store. Never one to let an act of injustice...
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Language
English
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"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumped at the mysterious, exclusive...
5164) The girl of his dreams
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Series
Language
English
Description
One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
5166) Cold as Ice
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, Riley was rocked by weeks of vandalism, followed by the brutal murder of beautiful elementary school secretary Olivia Perry. Everyone in town loved Olivia-but especially the two men with whom she was caught in a love triangle. Though the murder remains unsolved, Catherine receives ominous warnings that one of these men, Adam Becker, is responsible for the girls death. Unimpressed by the lack of evidence against him, Catherine is...
5167) Hope's boy: a memoir
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother-a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him-slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2013
Edition
[Library ed.], unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In this work the author asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? He compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity...
5169) Children of Ragnarok
Author
Series
Runestone saga (Chima) volume 1
Publisher
[Blackstone Audio]
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Sweeping adventure, breathtaking twists of fate, and immersive worlds based in Norse mythology are woven into this first volume of the Runestone Saga, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Realms and Shattered Realms series.
Since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos—the human realm of the Midlands has become a desperate and dangerous place, bereft of magic.
Sixteen-year-old Eiric Halvorsen is among...
5170) A song unheard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which makes her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I--to steal a cypher from a famous violinist currently in Wales. Lukas De Wilde has enjoyed the life of fame he's won--until now, when being recognized nearly gets him killed. Everyone wants the key to his father's work as a cryptologist. And Lukas fears that his mother and sister, who have vanished in the wake...
5171) The Lost Prosperity Secrets of Napoleon Hill: Newly Discovered Advice for Success in Tough Times
Author
Series
Publisher
Gildan Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Newly Discovered Advice for Success in Tough Times from the Renowned Author of Think and Grow Rich
It isn't every day that an opportunity comes along to read newly discovered advice for success in tough times in a book by Napoleon Hill, the legendary author of Think & Grow Rich, The Magic Ladder to Success, and The Master Key to Riches.
The Lost Prosperity Secrets of Napoleon Hill consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between...
5172) A Russian journal
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad--now Volgograd--but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, this work is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable...
Author
Publisher
[Brilliance Audio]
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Popular speaker and author Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God's best is still possible. Everyone has experiences in their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they carry with them everywhere they go. No one knows this better than Sarah Jakes Roberts. Pregnant at fourteen, married by nineteen, divorced by twenty-two, and all while...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Professor Finan examines the castle from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including those of history, archaeology, geography, and landscape studies. The course also covers the morphology of medieval fortifications and castles and considers the social and landscape natures of castles, as well as the role of the castle in Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Darnell delves into the history of Ancient Egypt from the Pre-dynastic Period through the end of the New Kingdom. In these lectures, Darnell shows that, despite common perceptions, Pharaonic Egyptian civilization existed within a multicultural society subject to disparate geological environments-and that its strength lay in the balancing of contrasting groups and goals.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, [this book] delves into the inner lives of animals--from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats--and explores the relationships we forge with them"--Dust jacket flap.
Outlines a series of case studies with domestic and exotic animals that demonstrate how perceiving the world from the perspectives of animals can enrich human appreciation...
5178) The color of fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller's captivating mystery, private detective Sharon McCone's investigation hits closer to home than ever before?Ķ
The Color of Fear
When a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying news: her father has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack.
A nationally recognized Shoshone artist, Elwood had been...
The Color of Fear
When a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying news: her father has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack.
A nationally recognized Shoshone artist, Elwood had been...
5179) The pieces of summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Only months after losing her beloved husband, does Meredith dare accept help from another man?
Meredith Stoltzfus could never love anyone like she loved her husband, Luke. When a friend from her past stops by her home to offer a helping hand, Meredith hesitantly agrees. But deep down, she feels uneasy about it. How would it look to others, seeing Jonah around so often?
Meanwhile, as a young, nameless man heals and regains strength in
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Language
English
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"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
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