Simon Vance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxii, 435 p. : maps, plan ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an encoded diary about Ludwig, the fairytale king of Bavaria who was declared insane and died mysteriously soon thereafter, falls into his hands, rare book dealer Steven Lukas is forced to go on the run as he becomes the target of Ludwig's deranged modern-day followers.
Author
Publisher
Image Books, Doubleday
Pub. Date
1960
Language
English
Description
Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions,...
43) Quick service
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1940
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p.
Language
English
Description
Fantasia about dyspeptic head of Paramount Hams and the portrait of his former flame.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse...
46) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
47) Seven days
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours won the Barry Award for Best Thriller, one of international crime fiction's most electrifying writers finally began to get the American attention he so richly deserves. With seven novels published in twenty languages (all available on audio from HighBridge), Meyer has set countless hearts racing with gripping stories that mix the violence, politics, natural beauty, and history of his native South Africa. In Thirteen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the unusual murder of an antiques dealer, former police officer Zet van Heerden struggles to overcome past demons and the uncertain loyalties of people affiliated with the case in order to identify the killer.
49) Icarus
Author
Series
Captain Benny Griessel volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Benny Griessel takes on a high profile murder case after a young tech wiz and the founder of an Internet service for cheating spouses is discovered dead in Cape Town.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves are silent. Are they being dominated by spectral forces, or are they hiding something? Is the governess
...Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. : photos ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals. Working with members of the zoo staff and a few compassionate U.S. soldiers, Anthony defended the zoo, bartered for food on war-torn streets, and scoured bombed...
53) Mushroom rain
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Language
English
Description
"Through lyrical text and colorful detailed artwork, the mysterious and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms is explored. Back matter includes a glossary and science facts"--
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pilgrim's Progress is a 1678 Christian allegory written by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Begun while Bunyan served a 12-year jail sentence for his nonconformist preaching, the novel unfolds over two parts, one concerning Christian, and the other his wife Christiana and their sons. Both concern the central characters' ordeals in traveling from the worldly to the sublime, and are filled with allegorical characters with names like Hypocrisy and...
55) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Since its original publication in 1897, Dracula has spoken aloud some of our deepest cultural anxieties: fear of sexuality, xenophobia, homophobia, and distrust of The Other. Award-winning writer Alexander Chee places these fears in today's context in a fascinating new introduction to the Restless Classics edition, gorgeously illustrated by Kaitlin Chan. One of the most culturally recognizable and pervasive characters ever written, Stoker's Count...
56) The art thief
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Rome: In the small church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, the curator is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's great treasure, White on White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's newest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased...