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A powerful senator's daughter is kidnapped in the Muslim country of Azerbaijan. Lieutenant Colonel Evan Burton from the American embassy…
tracks her down while native factions, Russians, Iranians, Turks, and Israelis all vie for an oil pipeline. Burton is alone, betrayed by everyone. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1998.
An unnamed young man grows up in Germany during the ascendance of National Socialism in the 1920s and 1930s. He…
becomes obsessed with--and horrified by--the movement's leader as civil liberties are curtailed and the young man is increasingly ostracized. Originally published in German. 1962. Uniform title: Tod des Widersachers.
As Hun, Goth and Roman battle in the fifth century, Dietric, young son of a German chief, forms a perilous…
friendship with Tacs, an ordinary Hun soldier. Includes strong language. 1974.
Is Bernard Ross really a suitable husband for Dolly Detling, daughter of Tory Sir Arthur? Why is the name of…
a murdered painter found in Bernard's pocket? Behind the smooth surface of Victorian snobbery there is something sinister about the Detling family. 1982.
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their…
country. For junior high and older reader. Sequel to "Tomorrow, when the war began" (DC28219). Followed by "The third day, the frost" (DC28218). 1995, c1994. (Tomorrow series ; 2)
An innocent young nun is caught up in a web of corruption and murder in a Venetian nursing home. She…
approaches Commissario Guido Brunetti whose mother she had previously nursed. The victims had all bequeathed large sums of money to the clinic. Sequel to "Acqua Alta" . 1998. (Guido Brunetti mysteries ; 6)
Tarquin Winot, super-civilized ironist, sets out on a journey of the senses to his spiritual home, Provence. He introduces his…
life through the medium of seasonal menus, and graces us with accounts of his family, nanny, cook and neighbours. 1996.
Concerning the lives of a former headmaster and a former teacher at the prestigious St. Anthony's School. Through their separate…
voices, we learn of the misfortunes which befell each at an early age and how each struggled to find happiness, only to see it devastatingly removed from them with disastrous effects. Raphael ran his own school impeccably for 40 years and Malachy's years at teacher training college were rewarding, however the icy hand of fate deals a cruel and untimely blow to their lives. Strong language. 1995.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, the third of October, Morse turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho with Anne Scott's…
address scribbled on a crumpled note in his pocket. He hadn't planned on a second visit, but he was back later the same day -- as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation.
Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and his friend, Malcolm Plant, meet at the Deer Leap, a pub where people and pets…
have been dying "accidentally". Some strong language. 1985. (Richard Jury mysteries ; 7)
Veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming were bringing herds to the gold camps of the…
Black Hills, where miners were hungry for beef. But the drives would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, and within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys, and high-spirited women. Each was tangled by violent grudges, stampeding herds, and dangerous deception, and each had a deadly surprise awaiting it at the end of the trail. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c1999. (Trail drive series ; 12)
Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world, and pivots around the gravitational…
pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power--and often the willful perversity--of the human spirit. 2010.
Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die, only…
to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford decides to use Henry by turning his story - a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins - into a film. Ten years later and back in Ireland, Henry is caught in a bomb blast and becomes a poster boy for the Provos, but finds that he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy. Sequel to "Oh, play that thing" (DC26405). Explicit strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2010. (The last roundup ; 3)
These 11 stories encapsulate divergent themes of love and loss, containment and exclusion. In the title story, a parks &…
recreation worker faces an assailant who does not leave the altercation intact. A medical researcher and his claustrophobic fiancée are locked in the trunk of their car after a failed carjacking (the thief can't drive standard). A young woman enters a pharmaceutical trial in the outer reaches of suburbia and slips between sleeping and waking with alarming ease. 2012.
Covers the development in the biological sciences from the 1950s through the late 1980s. The author concludes with chapters on…
the machinery and design of the brain, and an epilogue on what life is and how it began. 1957.
Sera was devastated when Keir Sutherlands became more interested in his career than their wedding plans. Convinced he didn't love…
her any more, Sera knew she had to let Keir go. Trying to forget him, Sera became engaged to another man; Keir's greatest rival! Sera was bound by secret tragedy to her new fiancé, so she was thrown into turmoil when Keir returned and seemed determined to marry her after all. But did Keir love her or was he simply driven by revenge? Descriptions of sex. 2000.
When the Hunter family are persuaded to move house, Dinah, Lloyd and Harvey realize that there is something very strange…
about the new village. And soon Dinah suspects that their old enemy, the Demon Headmaster, is back. This time, he has got control of a research laboratory, and he's planning to take over nature itself. But to do that, he needs Dinah - which puts her in terrible danger. Sequel to "The revenge of the Demon Headmaster", followed by "The Demon Headmaster takes over". Grades 3-6. 1996.
The assembly line workers at Scotland's Centaur Car Company are a varied lot. New employee Steve Laker is appalled at…
the working conditions. Wormsley leaves work not feeling well and dies on the way home, and Curly Brogan fakes his own death to get a few days off. Some strong language. 1996.
A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of 14. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe. Maxie, Blue…
and the rest of the Holloway crew aren't the only kids trying to escape the ferocious adults who prey on them. Jack and Ed are best friends, but their battle to stay alive tests their friendship to the limit. Includes strong language and violence. Sequel to "The enemy", followed by "The fear". Grades 4-7. 2011.