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Beautiful Ida Chagall, the only daughter of Marc Chagall, is blossoming in the Paris art world beyond her father's controlling…
gaze. But her newfound independence is short-lived. In Nazi-occupied Paris, Chagall's status as a Jewish artist has made them all targets, yet his devotion to his art blinds him to their danger. When Ida falls in love and Chagall angrily paints an empty wedding chair (The bridal char) in response, she faces an impossible choice: does she fight to forge her own path outside her father's shadow, or abandon her ambitions to save Chagall from his enemies and himself? 2015.
In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The torpedo…
broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves - and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Tells the unique tale of Navy Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller's fight for survival against both a hostile environment and an implacable human enemy. 2016.
The Civil War is most often understood as an internal conflict, one fought by American soldiers over issues uniquely American…
in origin and consequence. But in "The Cause of All Nations", historian Don H. Doyle reframes our understanding of the Civil War, describing it as a conflict that was shaped by international forces - and which had major international repercussions. 2014.
Bernie Rhodenbarr and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser break into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure…
replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet. 2014.
When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her…
missing house. Sequel to "The first misadventure", followed by "Into the wild". Grades K-3. 2014.
When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in…
the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object. Followed by "The case of the weird blue chicken". Grades K-3. 2014.
After traveling through time, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face…
new crises and old enemies. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. Sequel to "Shadow of night". 2014.
1870s, Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of…
Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand and definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theatre. The Brewer of Preston, it's called, and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night. 2014. Uniform title: Birraio di Preston.
England, 1914. Kezia struggles to keep her ordered life from unraveling after her husband enlists to fight for his country,…
while Thea, her best friend, sister-in-law and suffragette, is drawn reluctantly to the battlefield. 2014.
From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus--a sign with his own name on it--everything changes.…
The sighting leads him underground to the House of Answers, a hidden warehouse full of mysterious objects. But there he finds only questions. What is this curious place? Who are the strange, secretive people who entrust him with a rare and immensely powerful gift? And what is he to do with it? When Horace finds the Box of Promises in the curio shop, he quickly discovers that ordinary objects can hold extraordinary power. From the enormous, sinister man shadowing him to the gradual mastery of his newly found abilities to his encounters with Chloe--a girl who has an astonishing talent of her own--Horace follows a path that puts the pair in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between two warring factions in which every decision they make could have disastrous consequences. Followed by "The harp and the ravenvine". Grades 5-8. 2015.
In this account of two tragedies, Dr. Steven Hayne was a medical examiner in Mississippi and Dr. Michael West a…
dentist and self-styled "bite-mark specialist." The second tragedy is of two black men wrongly convicted by Hayne's and West's reports. The authors reveal how this tragedy happened and how to prevent its happening again. 2018.
A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylight--or so it appears to the…
eight-year-old girl who is the crime's only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping--a miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order, so Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Things take an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in Italy. The killer's MO is bizarre and frightening - obsessed with music, the man records the final breaths of his victims, then uses a keyboard sampler to compose an otherworldly tune that is then posted online. The search for the killer will become a complex case of international cooperation--yet not all is as it seems, and soon Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game with shadowy parties from across the globe. Bestseller. Sequel to "The steel kiss". 2017.
Can Jason Bourne be working against his own country? The US Government is convinced of his treason, and Bourne's only…
hope is to join forces with his bitterest enemy. Sequel to "The Bourne enigma". 2017.
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the…
boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. 2017.
She used to work for the U.S. government, one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't…
even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came without warning, and they killed the only other person she trusted. When her former handler offers her a way out, it is her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. And now she finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Bestseller. 2016.
Lew Weldon must choose between two jobs: hired gun for a smuggler, or bodyguard to a beautiful convalescent. The first…
could be deadly, but the second could land Weldon on the outlaw's bad side. 2018.
1920, both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is…
shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs-- and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Sequel to "The striker", followed by "The assassin". 2014.
How far do you go for a friendship? That's the question Daniel Wade is forced to ask when a simple…
favour has fatal consequences. For the sake of his old schoolmate, Robbie - and more importantly for Robbie's sister, Cate - Dan agrees to go along with a lie. But soon he's sucked into a conspiracy that threatens to consume them all. 2013.
Everyone is stymied when two of Pickax's most prominent citizens are found murdered in their home. But even more puzzling…
to Qwill is Koko's sudden and unaccountable attraction to rubber cement. Sequel to “The cat who knew Shakespeare”, followed by “The cat who went underground”. 1993.