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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
621 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The phrase 'riding shotgun' was no game to the men who guarded Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains in the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these men guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain--battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure, and their bravery and ingenuity make this book...
422) Labyrinth of lies
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school, police detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. It doesn't take her long to realize that beneath the veneer of polish and wealth, things are not as they seem at Ivy Hill Academy. But the biggest surprise of all? The only man she ever loved is also working at the school. Zeke Sloan has never forgotten Cate, but now isn't the best...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (310 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
Lover come back: Business gets mixed with pleasure when two advertising executives go after the same account.
Send me no flowers: A hypochrondriac gets the wrong diagnosis and decides to arrange for a 'future' husband for his very confused wife.
425) The killing tide
Author
Series
Coastal guardians volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, CGIS special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous and volatile crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer's adrift cutter, and the direction the clues point will test him and the guard to their limits. Complicating matters further is the arrival of investigative reporter Harper Grace. An unrelenting journalist who was nearly killed as...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
427) Copyboy
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
428) Claws and effect
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
419 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
429) Catch as cat can
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Bookspan large print ed.
Physical Desc
490 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
2oth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc 9105 min.) : bsd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie...
431) Fear itself
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thriller set in the Depression-era years before World War II finds fledgling FBI Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim dispatched to infiltrate the pro-Nazi German-American Bund organization and discovering a sinister plot targeting the White House.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
L, 715 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Edward Lansdale (1908-1987),a covert operative, remains one of the most fascinating yet deeply misunderstood figures of post-1945 American foreign policy. Max Boot unearths a trove of new facts from previously classified documents and recasts both our vision of Lansdale and America's entire involvement in Vietnam.
Author
Series
An FBI thriller volume 26
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered; she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later, a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She turns to Dillon Savich for help, and he brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the detective who had saved Kirra years before. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and...
434) Mrs. Kennedy and me
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Edition
Original U.K. ed.
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
436) Iron heart
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The human revolution has risen against the Automae of Rabu, and at its heart is Ayla. Once a handmaiden, now a fugitive, Ayla narrowly escaped the palace of Lady Crier, the girl she would've killed if they hadn't fallen in love first. Unbeknownst to Ayla, Crier escaped as well, joining with rebels and determined to find her way back to her love. When their paths finally cross and Ayla is charged to destroy the Iron Heart, neither girl is prepared...
437) The silent sisters
Author
Series
The Charles Jenkins volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a harrowing escape from Russian agents on his last mission, Charles Jenkins thinks he’s finally done with the spy game. But then the final two of the seven sisters—American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades—cut off all communication with their handlers. Are they in hiding after detecting surveillance? Or have they turned and become double agents? It’s Jenkins’s duty to find out, but he’s been added to a...
438) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
The worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast.