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When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been…
living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process, Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew. With his career on the line, he races to unravel the truth behind Sofia's disappearance, enlisting the help of his beloved wife Charlotte and his old friend Victor Narraway. And he soon realizes that if he cannot find Sofia before it's too late, the consequences could destroy not only his reputation, but the British Empire itself. 2015.
Since she was a child, Ivy has been gripped by visions of strange realms. When her sister goes missing, Ivy…
discovers her hallucinations are real, and her sister is trapped in a parallel realm. The one person who believes her is the guy bound by an ancient legacy to betray her. Followed by "The sweetest burn". 2014.
More than just a how-to guide, 'The behavior gap' is a movement developed by Richards to help even the least-savvy…
investor put his or her money to use more efficiently. With Richards' easy-to-implement practices and habits, investors will close the behaviour gap and get a better return from their investments. 2012.
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their…
beloved grandmother's unsettling behaviour. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "The lemonade crime". 2012.
Thirty-six humorous sketches about adventures and mishaps while hunting, fishing, and camping in the great outdoors. In the title piece,…
McManus entertains his granddaughter by recalling some childhood hijinks with a bear named Pooky who hibernated in his attic. 2002.
Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates - a poor man who set out to publish lost…
classics of black history - Ta-Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling. 2008.
While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the…
help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds. Grades 5-8. 2006.
Truly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort - they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders…
and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation gurus and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort, but the most successful among them believe that withstanding discomfort is a skill that has helped them in hugely positive ways. Some were forced into discomfort through no choice of their own - a life-altering illness, a business fiasco - while others signed up for it because they had goals they were determined to achieve. Becoming comfortable with discomfort won’t just make us more resilient and more successful, however we define success. It will also make us happier. 2017.
Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdulmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece--a portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror--may have…
resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly sent to investigate, but--aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting--decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-at-the-heel Venice, where a killer is at large, as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini. But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all or something associated with its original loss? And how is it that all of the killer's victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski, or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth to the manifold mysteries. Sequel to "The Snake Stone". Followed by "An Evil Eye". 2009.
Ten folktales from Scandinavia and other northern hemisphere countries. In "Good Neighbors", a family happily coexists with mountain trolls. In…
"Grandfather Bear", a fox tricks an old bear into dropping his dinner. Grades 4-7. 2003.
Beginning with the early and modern history of Belgium, this booklet describes the history of Belgian contact with and immigration…
to Canada. Includes population statistics and suggestions for further reading. 1991. (Canada's ethnic groups ; 20)
Aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and…
live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. Originally published in 1891. 1984.
In 1800 a young Kentucky woman agrees to join a Shaker colony with her recently converted husband. He finds fulfillment…
in the daily routine and group solidarity, but she becomes increasingly unhappy with her neighbours and her marriage. Portrays life in a nineteenth-century Shaker community. 1989, c1957.
Elin dreams of becoming a figure skater although her family cannot afford the skates or the lessons. Determined to earn…
the money, she takes an after-school job at a grocery store, but when Elin's father has an accident, her savings must help to pay the bills. Grades 4-7. 1950.
Phoebe Baker Hyde made a vow: to give up new clothes, makeup, haircuts, and jewelry in hopes of revealing something…
she had always paid lip service to but never quite believed in - her inner beauty. Hyde holds up a mirror to all women and shows how perfectionism can keep us from achieving what we really want: happiness, confidence, and serenity. 2013.
At fifteen, Daisy, who is as obsessed with cars as the rest of her family, convinces her reluctant father to…
let her try to restore his purple 1957 Volkswagen Beetle. While she struggles to work on the car, Daisy experiences her first relationships with boys. For Junior and Senior high readers. 1999.
Discusses the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent more than twenty years in the Galapagos Islands researching Charles…
Darwin's finches to confront Darwin's notion of evolution as a time-suspended process. Weiner incorporates research from other scientists to assert that evolution is dynamic, involving constant, even observable, change. L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1994.