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On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. The killing…
is brutal, amateurish and by all appearances random. But Clemente is no ordinary victim. 2010.
A young boy named Jean has an imaginary friend, Django, who keeps getting him in trouble and eventually is "sent…
away," but whenever Jean plays the banjo he continues to feel close to Django. Inspired by the life of jazz musician Django Reinhardt, includes facts about his life. Grades 2-4. 2010.
Enslaved by a war-dragon of Babel, young Will evacuates to the Tower of Babel where he meets the confidence trickster,…
Nat Whilk, and becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city. As he rises from an underling to a politician, Will falls in love with a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to. 2010.
Maddie Moss is blackmailed into stealing the Dragonheart from Jason Haley, who seems powerless against the oncoming onslaught but whose…
connection to the Dragonheart may prove that he is destined for a greater purpose than anyone imagined. Sequel to "The Wizard Heir". Junior High. 2009.
Tally, a twelve-year-old English girl, and her classmates at Delderton, a progressive boarding school, help Karil, the young prince of…
Bergania, escape into England after the Nazis invade Bergania and kill the king. Grades 5-8. 2008.
Laurie David educates young listeners about the ecological crisis called Global Warming.The dangers posed are very real, and the planet…
may undergo drastic changes within this century. People do, however, have the power to fight back and save the earth, and they can start by listening to this audiobook. Grades 4-7. 2008.
Wheaton College professor John Kricher presents an absorbing analysis of the diverse ecosystems that exist on Planet Earth. He provides…
a factual study of the many fragile and threatened portions of our biosphere while describing the interaction between each system and the effect of man's presence in these ecosystems. He also explains the amazing variety of flora and fauna that inhabit the individual ecosystems and addresses current ecological issues facing mankind. 2008.
The Office of Strategic Services has now been tasked with convincing the Axis powers that the Allied forces will not…
be invading Europe via France's beaches. Layers of secrecy shroud the operation - anyone could be a double agent. Sequel to "Saboteurs", followed by "Spymasters". 2007.
On the same night a drunk cop shoots a gambler, a haul of priceless jewels is stolen - setting the…
stage for a mystery as complex and steeped in the blues as the city of Atlanta itself. 2007.
When his "company" friend is gruesomely slain in a sleepy Tuscan village and the dead man's family later butchered in…
their London home, CIA "fixer" Micah Dalton takes action. Soon he is on the trail of an elusive fiend whose flair for ornamental blade-work suggests a link to American Indian mysticism. As the body count rises, the targets include active and inactive CIA agents and independent contractors - all with some connection to Echelon, an enigmatic Langley enterprise. Followed by "The Orpheus deception". 2007.
David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he…
had a special aptitude for football and teaching. During his 31 years in the league, he would parlay a lifetime of experience into one of the most successful careers in NFL history. Bestseller. 2006.
Nina and her brother Andrew share a strong bond: during childhood, they helped each other survive the cruelty of their…
physician father. Their mother has not fared so well: she is a drunken by-product of domestic mythology. Now Nina, a reclusive editor, has sealed herself off from the world since her husband's accidental death, while her brother is busy locating and seducing women he knew in high school. 2005.
Bethany and Wade Cameron are young newlyweds bound for the Texas Panhandle in the 1800s. In the land of endless…
cattle ranges, they plan to build a modest home and work the fields, making a life for themselves as best they can. Though the journey west is long and arduous and their new surroundings are less than hospitable, the Camerons persevere through courage, faith, and most importantly the support of each other. 2004.
This book, one of the sources for Mel Gibson's motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, is taken from the…
eighteenth-century journals of the Catholic nun who had visions of scenes from the life of Christ. 2004. Uniform title: Bittere Leiden Unseres Herrn Jesu Christi.
In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer. Now an American and…
a fixture in his Brooklyn neighbourhood, he maintains a quiet life as a husband and father. His terrible deeds lie buried. As we meet his family, neighbours, and even his past victims, his story becomes one of reconciliation and rebellion. And as we return one final time to his turbulent past, we witness his last violent act, and his first encounter with the woman who offers him a chance for salvation. 2004.
Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but…
also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology. 2003.
In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her…
arrest and the closing of her school. Junior and Senior High. 2003.
Once innocent, Con Somerford has returned from war, weary and worldly, to assume the role of Earl of Wyvern. To…
his surprise and distress, Susan Kerslake, Con's first love, is now his new housekeeper. Time has changed the two soulmates from who they were during childhood. Memories of their love and friendship still linger, but so do dangerous questions. 2002.
In 18th-century England, spiritual sisters Anne and Nicole find themselves facing different roads into the future. While Anne is settling…
into mannered British life, she prays for best friend Nicole, who is now planning a voyage to Boston to take control of her uncle's landholdings. Heading into the seething heart of the American Revolutionary War, Nicole is ill-prepared for the grave dangers and ravages of war that confront her. Sequel to "The birthright", followed by "The beloved land". 2002.
When P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But…
their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retired suddenly strikes again - in their hotel! Grades 4-7. 2002.