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721) Leaving Blythe River
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is unprepared to search for his estranged father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, it's up to Ethan to keep looking. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father"--
722) Time's betrayal
Author
Publisher
Fomite
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Time's Betrayal is an epic multigenerational family saga covering the years from the battle of Antietam to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Touching on elements in John le Carré's A Perfect Spy and John Knowles's A Separate Peace, the novel chronicles a son s search for a larger-than-life father, a CIA agent who disappeared in the early fifties, leaving behind a distraught wife and lovers, not to mention a Pandora's box of devastating secrets and unanswered...
723) Short fiction
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Now in one stunning collection, four of Stephen King’s most well-loved horror stories: The Mist, Apt Pupil, The Body, and The Sun Dog. In The Mist, terror descends in the wake of a summer storm. David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies and become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town....
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 10
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England. It is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft. More than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's...
725) In the name of truth
Author
Series
Sandhamn murders volume 8
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot, is it something more ominous.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Baseball is North America's favorite pastime. Millions of fans thrill to the sound, smell and electricity of the game; a game associated with men. But unknown to many, young women played the game, as hard and as well as most men, at a time when many men were away at war. They could routinely hit 240-foot home runs, slide into bases, skirts flying and bare thighs burning raw into the dirt. They were the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League....
Author
Series
Geological Survey professional paper volume 1180
Publisher
United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
728) Pollution
Series
Reference shelf volume 92, no. 5
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Islands of plastic waste, chemicals from everyday products and prescription drugs, and farm animal waste are all contributing to the destruction of our environment and climate change. Such issues, and the difficulty of solving them, are the subject of this Reference Shelf. Radical plans to artificially cool Earth's climate and to use ocean currents to correct plastic sea pollution are discussed, as well as the difficulty of enforcing environmental...
729) Silence of the bees
Publisher
Educational Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Honeybees first appeared on earth around 80 million years ago, and from the beginning have played a key role in our survival. Most fruit trees and vegetable species are entirely dependent on bees to produce, and there is no commercially viable artificial replacement for natural pollination. In the past year up to 80% of the honeybees in the US have vanished. The massive die-offs, first reported in November of 2006, are now the subject of emergency...
730) Keyboard fantasies
Author
Publisher
Transgressive Records
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1970, nine years after leaving the United States to study music in Canada, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released two self-titled albums. Both were a stunning showcase of classical and jazz acumen, layered with poetry and accompanied by some of the best players of the time. Original pressings now fetch thousands of dollars. Glenn-Copeland then vanished as a recording artist until his re-emergence in 1986 with the release of what many now believe to be...
731) Now you see me 1 & 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Now you see me: An elite FBI squad is in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
Now you see me 2: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin...
Author
Publisher
Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Diabetes Translation, Native Diabetes Wellness Program
Pub. Date
2011?]
Language
English
Description
"Rain, now a 12-year-old, is visited once again by the eagle, but this time in a dream. As Rain sleeps, Sky Heart, the eagle, sings a song to him that ends with the refrain, 'a boy must help us.' In the song, Sky Heart provides clues about strange vanishings on the Medicine Cave Indian Reservation. Thistle, the rabbit, has suspicions that Coyote is behind the disappearance of fossils from an ancient turtle, the sudden evaporation of water from the...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hocus Pocus: After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
The haunted mansion: A family goes to visit a mansion, with thoughts of buying it, and ends up stranded there by a freak storm. They soon find that not only does the current owner live there but so do 999 ghosts.
Halloweentown:...
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submarines. However, this fleet was not nearly as impressive as the number suggests. It was mostly a collection of aging boats from the late teens and early twenties, with only a few of the newer, more modern Gato-class boats. Fortunately, with the war in Europe was already two years old and friction with Japan ever-increasing, help from what would become...
739) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...