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11822) The watcher in the shadows
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
11823) The tell-tale heart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic, in which the murder of an old man is revealed by the continuing beating of his heart.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but for some obscure reason that Poirot is determined to uncover, the number four keeps popping up with every killing. This collection features the original linked Hercule Poirot stories as they first appeared in The Sketch periodical, before Christie re-worked them with her brother-in-law to create the novel, The Big Four.
Author
Series
Hunt and Hooke volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1679 -- A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt -- estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke -- is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made...
11827) Bending toward justice: the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical...
11828) A counterfeit suitor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is every mama's dearest wish that her daughter marries well. But how to ensure that a seemingly earnest suitor is not merely a fortune hunter? Rosalind is involved in just such a case, discreetly investigating a client's prospective son-in-law, when she is drawn into another predicament shockingly close to home. Rosalind's estranged father, Sir Reginald Thorne--a drunkard and forger--has fallen into the hands of the vicious scoundrel Russell...
Series
The Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Miniseries volume Book 4-6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (18 hr., 19 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympic Mountain Pursuit: Four years ago, former US Marshal Jackson Dean left his job after falling for a witness who's suddenly the target of an assassin. Now it's up to Jackson and his K-9 partner to protect single mom Everly Lopez and her young daughter when Everly's identity is blown. But with hired killers looking for a payday, Jackson must use all his resources to stop them.
Threat Detection: When someone shoots at volcanologist Aubrey Smith...
11830) The day freedom died: the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
11831) The May Queen murders
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her beloved cousin goes missing after a May Day celebration, sixteen-year-old Ivy discovers that both her cousin and her hometown in the Missouri Ozarks are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
11832) Necessity
Author
Series
Joseph Antonelli novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When renowned lawyer Joseph Antonelli -- the defense attorney who has never lost a case -- takes on the most shocking and controversial case of his storied career, he has no idea of the depths of trouble he's about to get into. A man has murdered the President of the United States, but has invoked the "Law of Necessity," which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good and thus prevents a greater harm from occurring.
11833) Dead is just a dream
Author
Series
Dead is-- (Spin-off) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paranormal warrior Jessica Walsh enlists the help of her psychic neighbor, Daisy Giordano, to help discover who or what is causing Nightshade, California, residents to die in their sleep with horrified looks on their faces.
11834) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
347 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker.
11835) Un abogado rebelde
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
491 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a su vez es su asistente legal y único amigo. Difiende a quienes otros no querrían ni ver: un drogadicto, un chico tautado que supuestamente forma parte de un culto satánico acusado de acosar y matar a dos niñas pequeñas, un criminal en el corredor de la muerte, un hombre arrestado por disparar a unos agentes...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winningBrothers and Keepers,...
11837) Smokin' Aces
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent hunts for Las Vegas stand up comedian and illusionist Buddy 'Aces' Israel. Aces has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins. Now Aces will have to pull his greatest disappearing act before the assassins can get to him.
11838) Heroes of the old West
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 21 hrs., 48 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
11840) Race against time: the untold story of Scipio Jones and the battle to save twelve innocent men
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob in what became known as the Elaine Massacre. Others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved, answered the call and represented the...
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