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7581) Zevi takes the spotlight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Although thirteen-year-old aspiring actor Zevi would like to keep his psychic abilities a secret, he may be forced to use them when a famous actor's life is endagered on a movie set.
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic abilities to save a famous actor's life on a movie set."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winter 1920. Though the war has been over for two years, many are still struggling to pick up their lives again when so much has been lost. In Ireland too, other terrible troubles are taking hold. Then Tom Harkin, a former officer, arrives in the dead of night at a deserted railway platform. He has been summoned to Kilcolgan House, a grand old estate, to work as a tutor. When Tom reaches the house it gradually becomes clear that this is not the imposing...
7583) La gran estafa
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
7584) Execution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Giordano Bruno, a heretic turned spy, arrives in England with shocking information for spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place. Bruno is surprised to find that Walsingham is aware of the plot--led by the young, wealthy noble Anthony Babington--and is allowing it to progress. He hopes that Mary will put her...
7585) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While overseas fighting in the Afghan war, U.S. Army soldier Coop - a man haunted by the things he has seen and done in the war - is told that his wife has been killed back home in the States. The ticking of the clock begins as Coop is given a brief leave to attend to his wife's affairs. But while back in New York City, Coop discovers his wife's death was far more suspicious than anyone told him. He decides to go AWOL, using his military training...
7587) Ciudad en llamas
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que...
7588) Blood and ink
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
213 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
7589) Escape velocity
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 415 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
7590) The enemy above
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
7591) Fail-safe
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just "the judge's daughter." As Kate delves into the case, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer,...
Author
Series
Burning glass volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Civil war is on the horizon, and Sonya is helpless to stop it. With her empathic powers gone, she can no longer protect her beloved Anton from his vindictive brother Valko, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge and reclaim his throne. Even if that means using an Auraseer to hunt--and kill--both Sonya and Anton. Then Sonya hears about an empath in a far-off kingdom who may be able to heal her--but without her powers, finding the legendary Auraseer...
7594) The divided city
Author
Series
Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. A year after Germany's defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey...
7595) I see you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each. As Zoe examines old remains, she sees a teenage girl looking back at her--the victim in a cold case from over a decade ago. Zoe wants nothing more than to tell this young woman's...
7596) The poison bed
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder--but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime?" --amazon.com.
Autumn, 1615. Scandal rocks the Jacobean court when Robert and Frances Carr are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances-- young, captivating, and from a notorious family-- was rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a...
7597) Gardenia
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ivy has always been able to see clocks over everyone's heads, counting down how long before they will die. Her own will hit the zero hour before she even graduates high school. She struggles with her deep love for on-again, off-again boyfriend Myers Patripski. And she struggles to cope with the murder of her best friend, Vanessa Donovan, another life she couldn't save. Then more girls start disappearing. The clock is always ticking. And Ivy's only...
7598) The apartment: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mark and Steph have a relatively happy family with their young daughter in sunny Cape Town until one day when armed men in balaclavas break in to their home. Left traumatized but physically unharmed, Mark and Steph are unable to return to normal and live in constant fear. When a friend suggests a restorative vacation abroad via a popular house swapping website, it sounds like the perfect plan. They find a genial, artistic couple with a charming apartment...
7599) Little boy lost
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body--and the bodies of twelve other African...
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