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FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers' cutting-edge skills are pushed to the limit when a woman is found brutally murdered near…
Washington, D.C. While her killers continue a spree of perfect crimes, Bowers struggles to discover a pattern and crack his most difficult case yet. Sequel to "The knight", followed by "The queen". 2010.
The College of William and Mary professor, Adam Potkay delivers a course that will provide listeners with a literary and…
historical overview of the Bible from its opening in Genesis to its ending in the Book of Revelation, and also with a sense of some of the ways in which the Bible has influenced the literary traditions of the West. 2003.
Attending a funeral dinner at Ewelme Manor, Sister Frevisse and Bishop Beaufort are stunned when querulous Sir Clement Sharpe brazenly…
challenges God to strike him down -- and promptly falls down dead. But suspicions soon arise that it was a mortal rather than divine hand at work in Sir Clement's death. 1994. (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
In this course, University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro gives listeners an overview of the MBA degree…
- one of the most valuable degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States. 2008.
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work…
through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too. Grades 4-7. 2009.
Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings,…
they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend of the swaggering Texas oilman with island hideaways and sprawling ranches. 2009.
Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old…
Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out. 2008.
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou,…
who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce. Grades 3-6. 2009.
On September 12, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months…
earlier--when it was requested--the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some of the most important confessions from terrorists in the war against al-Qaeda--without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge. 2011.
Serge Storms, maniacal serial killer, and sidekick Coleman head out west and hit Tinseltown with a bang (literally) and are…
soon embroiled in a caper involving a kidnapped starlet, the Japanese yakuza, redneck gangsters, bumbling cops, and twin-brother movie producers. Serge and Coleman bumble their way from one ridiculous exploit to another while still saving the girl and giving the bad guys their just deserts. 2006.
When Sydney Chaplin left D.C. nine years ago for college, she vowed never to return. But when her sister is…
found brutally murdered, she finds herself drawn once again into the shadowy web of her wealthy, powerful family. Joined by Washington detectives Jack Cassian and Darius Train, and driven by her need to know the truth about her sister's death, Sydney will risk everything - her life and her family's future - to find the answers. 2006.
In this companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles entrepreneurs who have…
visited his show and the lessons he's learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people, mothers, students, retirees and former screw ups, who had only a good idea and built multimillion-dollar businesses without MBAs. Entrepreneurial success stories are complemented by practical advice and resources for building a business. c2008. Uniform title: Big idea with Donny Deutsch (Television program)
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer. Separated…
from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance mission, either as punishment for her quick mouth or praise for her service. Kerr must turn a ragtag group of Marines into a cohesive fighting unit in a matter of days, while manoeuvring through the murky political waters of the Confederation. Sequel to “Valor’s choice”, followed by “The heart of valor”. 2008.
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul when his wife disappears, perhaps having run off with her ex-husband, Celâl, a…
popular newspaper columnist. When Celâl also vanishes, Galip investigates and finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. Some descriptions of violence. 2006. Uniform title: Kara kitap.
Since the American War of Independence, black soldiers had served in both the British and Canadian armies, and fought in…
British wars throughout the nineteenth century. At the outbreak of World War I, however, most black Canadian volunteers were rejected on the basis of their skin colour. Finally, in 1916, the first and only Black battalion in Canadian military history was authorized. The No. 2 Construction Battalion, CEF, consisted of approximately 600 soldiers, and was commended for its discipline and service at the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1920. c1987.
The first in the trilogy about the Eliots of Damerosehay. The tranquil, happy existence of this close-knit family seems suddenly…
threatened when David and Nadine fall in love with one another. 1958.
American landscape painter Rockwell Kent, a dandified frontiersman with a weakness for stark landscapes and fertile women, settles in Brigus,…
Newfoundland, in the spring of 1914. He begins befriending the locals and painting the scenery, but as the novelty of his presence wears off - and as the war in Europe stokes paranoia in the British Empire - he begins to systematically alienate his hosts, until he is eventually deported as a suspected spy. Kent is an aesthete, an ugly American, a socialist, and a compulsive philanderer, moving to Newfoundland in search of a Marxian pastoral, but is ultimately a man out of step with his time. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2004.
A coast-to-coast tour of Canada, examining the history and geography of Canada's 10 provinces and three territories, filled with little-known…
facts and fascinating stories. Includes highlights of great historical moments, information about government and industries, and portraits of memorable men and women. There are also recipes for delicacies like Caribou Chilli, lists of the people who have gone over Niagara Falls, and things that people have seen in Lake Okanagan. For grades 4-7. c2002.
A fictionalized story of Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian giantess made famous by P.T. Barnum. A picaresque tale of Anna's…
search for a home in a world that does not fit. Some descriptions of sex. 1983.
In 1994, at least 1,117,000 innocent people were massacred in a horrible genocide in Rwanda. Here, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana…
recounts the story of this atrocity and the events leading up to it. But this book is also the story of the new Rwanda - a country that has turned to God - and is being blessed. c2007.