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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gripping narrative of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's permanence and established its claim to the entire continent, by the author of the enormously successful and acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution.This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this war, followed closely on the War of Independence, that...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME!
On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who, with his two...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
1949, 2007
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr.)
Language
English
Description
As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime. Today that day has come. As Mike prepares for his first criminal job, a gold-train robbery, he must decide whether to follow the path set before him or carve out a destiny of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
12 CDs (13.5 hr.)
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Kate White, editor in- chief at Cosmopolitan, knows the glossy magazine world like the back of her hand. Her Bailey Weggins mystery series serves head-scratching whodunits with healthy dollops of dishy dirt. Fired from her job at Gloss, Bailey lands a new gig at celebrity gossip mag Buzz. When her slave-driving boss is murdered, Bailey investigates. Her friend and co-worker Robby is the chief suspect-but there's...
86) Tough customer
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Entreated by his former lover, Caroline, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has been stalking her, staff investigator Dodge Hanley teams up with a small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find answers.
87) Bedford Square
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him-for in the dead man's pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general's study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest...
88) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
89) Shock wave
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two groups want to stop it: local merchants and environmentalists. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second explodes at the construction site itself. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's...
90) Night and day
Author
Series
Jesse Stone volume 8
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Town, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.
91) Strangers
Author
Publisher
Balckstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war. Yet few have ever held forth as movingly as Jesus on the need for peace, forgiveness, and mercy. Paul Johnson offers listeners a lively biography of the man who inspired one of the world's great religions and whose lessons still guide us in current times. Johnson's intelligent and conversational...
93) The lost years
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
94) Storming heaven
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1994, 2003
Physical Desc
14 CDs (15.75 hr.)
Language
English
Description
The United States is under siege by a terrorist vowing revenge for the abuse he suffered at the hands of Air Force MPs as a youth. The supervillain launches a full-on attack to destroy the country by blowing up airports and threatening the Capitol. As the US military scrambles to predict his next move, a retired Coast Guard admiral wades through bureaucratic dysfunction to advise the government on how to outwit the madman and prevent more death and...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
6 sound disc (7 hrs.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is cancelled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O'Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to write a letter. But what begins as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund...
96) Bad blood
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a murder suspect commits suicide after his arrest for killing a soybean farmer, Virgil Flowers uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
99) The sinister pig
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5.75 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Tony Hillerman's mysteries offer a combination of Native-American lore and intriguing crimes that has made each one an instant best-seller. A wealthy Washington businessman will do anything to protect a covert operation that earns him millions of dollars. But when his activities attract the attention of reservation police, his power becomes as unstable as the desert wind.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 19, 20
Publisher
Maverick Books
Pub. Date
c1992, 1993
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hrs.)
Language
English
Description
The Case of the Midnight Rustler - Hank the cowdog investigates the mystery of a cattle rustler who works by night. --Amazon
The Phantom in the Mirror - Mirror, mirror, on the wall.... After Pete the Barncat starts a rumor about a Phantom Dog in the machine shed, Hank the Cowdog - the head of ranch security - decides that he better check it out. And sure enough, when Hank takes a peek into the shadows, he sees the meanest, toughest, stupidest dog...