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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wildwood is a small barrier island at the tip of southern New Jersey. Through a? combination of economics, geography, and chance, it contains a national treasure: the highest concentration of mid-twentieth-century modern hospitality architecture in the United States. The short three-month tourist season, combined with a working-class aesthetic, resulted in Wildwood's motels remaining essentially frozen in time for over four decades. In recent years,...
62) All that falls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend dies under mysterious circumstances and her powers vanish, muse Cerise, tormented by half-formed memories, turns to fallen archangel Lysander for help since he seems to hold the key to restoring her memories and abilities
Author
Series
Waking land volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"One young woman learns the true nature of power--both her own and others'--in the riveting conclusion to The Waking Land Trilogy. Sophy Dunbarron--the illegitimate daughter of a king who never was--has always felt like an impostor. Separated from her birth mother, raised by parents mourning the loss of their true daughter, and unacknowledged by her father, Sophy desires only a place and a family to call her own. But fate has other ideas. Caught...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Has Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known--in large part thanks to this author--it is now recognized asone of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. The scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone--the testing ground--Republican voting officials quietly removed...
67) Girl, under oath
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Taking the case could free an innocent woman… or a guilty one. Doctor Jenny Ipswich’s perfect life crashes down the day her husband dies. It shatters when his dying request is to pay half of his two-million-dollar life-insurance policy to some woman named Elise. Shocked to learn the secret affair resulted in a second wife and a child in Paris, Jenny comes face-to-face with the other woman when Elise shows up demanding half of everything she’s...
68) No one home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At Halloween, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they've become close friends as well as neighbours. They eat, drink and laugh. They play games and take photographs. But those photographs will be the last record of any of them. Because by the next morning, the whole village has vanished. With no bodies, no evidence and no clues, the mystery of what happened at Black Gale remains unsolved two...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también podrían escapar de su sangre. Años después...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He's worried about Madeline, his vanished half sister, who was last seen in the company of Jack Hurtsill, the gang's conscienceless leader. Raiding graveyard, stealing corpses, and selling them to medical colleges as dissection material is dirty work, but Max knows he must gain Jack's trust....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library--where it had first been deposited 350 years before,...
72) El sanatorio
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a lavish hotel. And an imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place detective Elin Warner wants to be. But having received an invitation out...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
230 B.C.--The first sovereign emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, has consolidated his ultimate power with battles against the last of the dissenting tribes of China. With one last province to take, he knows he will be pitted against the one man he fears-his mysterious half-brother, Li Zhang, leader of a peaceful province to the north. The new Emperor's goal was to murder Li Zhang for the secrets he has kept from the world that would give Qin Shi Huang...
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Deluxe collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Within the Warrior Princess there lurks a terrible secret about Gabrielle's unborn child, a secret so powerful that it seems destined to break the invincible bond between the two friends. Includes 22 episodes and loaded with extras.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
At the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, three former detectives and their lovely, ambitious boss tackle cases abandoned by the metropolitan police. Although their crime-solving skills are top-notch, the detectives each have their fair share of personal demons.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages.
But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some of which have only recently come to light. And these forces continue to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages.
But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some of which have only recently come to light. And these forces continue to...
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