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For spring break, fifteen-year-old Jackson has come to Stonehenge to visit his Aunt Sarah, an anthropologist. Dr. Sarah Cawley has…
been hired by the British Army to investigate a soldier's death and several animal mutilations in the area. Jackson and Dr. Cawley meet the hominid responsible for these deaths sooner and more directly than expected. Some violence. Grades 5-8. 1995.
Returning to London to shoot a film, British motion picture director Dick Warren becomes disenchanted with his brittle actress wife…
and renews an old love affair with Alison, now married. 1972.
Fennell, a longtime dog owner, trainer, and champion show-dog manager, provides a comprehensive guide for creating peaceful coexistence between dogs…
and their owners. An advocate of nonviolent pet training, Fennell shows readers how to successfully train their canine companions using gentle techniques and also shares anecdotes and advice. Fennell's techniques appear to deal efficiently with canine problem behaviours by teaching owners to establish leadership while eliminating separation anxiety, nervous aggression, and destructive behaviours. 2004, c2000.
Witnesses had stared in horror at the crash of a "weather balloon" in the Swiss Alps. Commander Robert Bellamy of…
Naval Intelligence has been ordered to find all of them and assure their silence. His only clue is that the witnesses were on the same tour bus. As Bellamy travels the globe, he discovers he is in the midst of an international conspiracy guided by alien forces. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1991.
It is 24 August 1926; Rudolph Valentino has just died in suspicious circumstances; Dorothy Parker has slit her wrists; and…
George S. Kaufman has found the body of a murdered showgirl in his Upper West Side hideaway. While Mrs Parker's attempted suicide raises no eyebrows, Kaufman's situation is clearly serious. 1985.
Frank looks at how economic competition is actually hindering the "common good." He explains that Charles Darwin's theory on the…
clash between individual and group interests is a perfect analogy for today's economic landscape. 2011.
Henry Childs is only seventeen when he elopes with Mercy, a judge’s daughter. Mercy’s family opposes the match and violently…
separates the couple. Now alone, Henry joins the marines and faces the horrors of war in Korea. 2012.
She thinks I'm a hero, but I'm only a former cop, out of the rescue business for a long time…
now. Still, I couldn't leave Caro Franklin stranded in a snowstorm. Even if bringing that beautiful lady to my home meant my family - and yes, maybe I, too - would immediately fall in love with her. So we just met. We still have something. In spite of those "family obligations" of hers that I don't fully understand, there's no denying what's between us. No denying that I could make the perfect father for her son. Now I just have to convince Caro to choose me - Jake McCabe. 2012.
Baker offers an eye-opening account of Margaret Marcus' dramatic conversion from an American secular Jew to a proponent of radical…
Islam. In 1962, Margaret left New York for Lahore, Pakistan, changed her name, and quickly became one of Islam's loudest critics of the West. 2012.
While on holiday Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found at the base…
of Lyme's famous sea wall as well as the prospect that Fitzwilliam's naval-lieutenant cousin may have also been murdered. 2012.
After his wife is murdered, Conrad "Kid Morgan" Browning hunts down the men responsible - then visits his wife's grave…
in New Mexico. There, he is shocked to discover his ex-fiancée waiting for him - along with armed backup. 2011.
When a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him "home" for the first time in years, rodeo cowboy…
Brody Creed meets his match in Carolyn Simmons, who is even more restless than he is. Bestseller. Sequel to "Creed's honor". 2011.
Bishop T.K. Wilson is banking on dynamic new choir director Anthony Mackie to reverse the failing congregation's fortunes. But while…
Anthony's got more than enough chops to raise a heavenly chorus, he's also got a weakness for the ladies that could make the Devil himself stand up and take notice. 2011.
The incognito owner of a mystery bookstore still enjoys fighting crime after hours--especially when no danger's involved. But when he…
tries to apprehend billboard vandals, the situation escalates into something much more sinister. 2010.
It's 2015, and Anne Hatley is leaving her North Carolina home for a Long Island research lab called the Colony.…
Anne, who was born with a genetic mutation that left her only one leg, will be donating stem cells for gene research in exchange for a new leg. But after meeting others with deficiencies, including carriers of the "suicide gene" and "obesity gene," Anne questions how much genetics really determine a person's life. 2010.
For time out of mind, blood-thirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on…
half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose--men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat-and emerge victorious. Jardir, armed with magically warded weapons, called himself the Deliverer, a figure prophesied to unite humanity and lead them to triumph in Sharak Ka--the final war against demonkind. But in their efforts to bring the war to the demons, Arlen and Jardir have set something in motion that may prove the end of everything they hold dear--a Swarm. Now the war is at hand and humanity cannot hope to win it unless Arlen and Jardir, with the help of Arlen's wife, Renna, can bend a captured demon prince to their will and force the devious creature to lead them to the Core, where the Mother of Demons breeds an inexhaustible army. Sequel to "The Skull Throne". 2017.
This novel follows successful record executive Teri Stewart as she scours L.A. for love. Just when she's ready to give…
up on men altogether, into her life strolls charming DJ Harrison Starr. He's got it going on – obviously - but he's also hiding a dark secret that could destroy their budding romance. 2009.
Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of…
an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court. Followed by “The Exiled Queen”. Junior and Senior High. 2010.
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan…
and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Followed by "The boy who saved baseball". Grades 5-8. 2009.