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When Iraq War vet October 'Tobie' Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly…
becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming. 2010.
When recaptured supernatural Chloe, from The Summoning, learns that she must rehabilitate or be terminated, she plots to escape. But…
first she needs to learn the secrets surrounding the other supernaturals' pasts and keep Simon and Derek safe. Some violence. Sequel to "The summoning"; followed by "The reckoning". For senior high readers. 2009.
The Nobel Prize-winning author presents a many-layered, surrealistic, and subtly humorous description of the barbarism, squalor, and corruption surrounding the…
rule of a Latin American dictator. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1977. Uniform title: Otoño del patriarca.
Traces the history of the development of the artificial heart, including experimentation with animals and human heart transplants. Discusses the…
psychological and ethical issues surrounding their use. For junior and senior high readers. c1987.
More and more of our social, political and religious activities are modelling themselves after the World Wide Web. A committed…
anarchist, Vaidhyanathan shows how the key information structure of our time is the 'peer-to-peer network'. These networks have always existed - gossip is one example, as is word-of-mouth advertising - but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century. Everything from culture to terrorism and extremist politics to religion will be affected. 2005.
When the bulldozers come to Farthing Wood the animals set out together to White Deer Park, the nature reserve, but…
it was not an easy journey for the strange assortment of friends. Grades 4-7. 1979.
An exciting story of action, adventure and romance. Set in Rhodesia the novel's characters, both black and white, play out…
their parts in a turmoil of action during which the seeds of hatred and future tragedy are sown. Sequel to "Men of men" (DC29828). Followed by "The leopard hunts in darkness" (DC10169). 1982. (Ballantyne novels ; 3)
Scotland, 1830. Widowed, Lady Kiera Darby has taken refuge at her sister’s estate finding solace in her passion for painting.…
But when her hosts throw a party and a guest is murdered Lady Kiera is asked to utilize her knowledge of human anatomy to aid Sebastian Gage - a fellow guest with experience as an inquiry agent. c2012.
Lottery winner Jonah Hale asks attorney friend Paul Madriani for help. Jonah and his wife were raising their granddaughter, Amanda,…
until they angered their drug-addicted daughter, Jessica, by denying her money. Now, aided by a notorious woman, Jessica and Amanda have vanished. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2000.
Spanish seminarian Julian Escobar, worshipped as a god by the Mayas and known as Lord Kukulcan, sees the fall of…
the Mayas and Incas with the coming of Cortes and Pizarro. Sequel to "The Feathered Serpent." For junior and senior high readers. 1983.
A historian tells the story of the Spanish Armada of 1588, including an account of the historical and political events…
that led up to the launching of the Spanish fleet against Elizabethan England. Winner of Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. 1987.
Like his father before him, Karsan is designated the guardian of the Indian shrine of Nur Fazal, but he just…
wants to live an ordinary life. It's the 1960s, and, curious about the world beyond his Gujarati village, Karsan sends an application to Harvard and is astonished to be accepted. Revelling in his studies and America, he finds happiness as a professor and family man, but there is no escaping "perfect, terrible Karmic symmetry." Some descriptions of sex. 2007.
Following an attempted kidnapping of Amelia, the Emersons depart early for Egypt's 1907 archaeological season. This time it is the…
younger generation taking centre stage as Ramses, David, and Nefret buy an ancient papyrus and set in motion a deadly chain of events. 1998.
A madman who refuses to identify himself torments a psychoanalyst. Dr. Frederick Starks, the analyst, is ordered to solve the…
puzzle of his torturer's identity through a series of clues. Starks risks deadly consequences to himself and his family if he fails or rejects this command. Strong language and some violence. 2002.
Turn-of-the-century northern England is the setting for this portrait of ambivalent sexuality. Jack has been the kept transvestite "mistress" of…
two wealthy elderly men for twenty years. When one of them dies, Jack writes an account of who he is and what happened between him and his lovers. Some descriptions of sex. 1991.
In the late Victoria era, Kirsty and Craig Nicholson drift apart from one another after their arrival in Glasgow. Kirsty…
is drawn to a young minister who cares for her deeply. Craig becomes obsessed with a woman from the slums. Sequel to "The good provider". Followed by "The wise child" (DC13342). 1989. (Glasgow quartet ; 2)
Someone has murdered a world-famous novelist and then strewn her naked body with flower petals and herbs. Tromp Kramer and…
Mickey Zondi, his Zulu partner in the Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad, begin an investigation which leads them into an alien world of painters and poets, sculptors and ballet dancers. 1984.
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made…
in Marghera - a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognisable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. 1995.
Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard is summoned to solve the murder of a young woman. He finds clues in…
a London pub where the eccentric patrons play an endless game of Wizards and Warlords. c1983.