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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[c2016].
Language
English
Description
Beth Swahn, a young lawyer, makes a rookie mistake: She believes her client. While basking in the glory of winning a hundred-million-dollar judgment for a U.S. division of C. K. Leung s Chinese conglomerate, Beth realizes that because of her naivete, Leonard Sloane, president of the division, has absconded to the Caribbean with his banker girlfriend and seventy million dollars of the judgment money. Shortly thereafter, they are both presumed dead...
Author
Language
English
Description
A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through nine American and British characters including Hemingway and George Orwell. It was a war between fascism, communism, and democracy that preceded World War II, and a tale of idealism and a noble cause that failed.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get it into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Natzi efforts, and into increasingly...
Author
Series
Rakes and rogues volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After six years gathering riches in India, Lord Whitly returns with his heart set on the feisty Welsh girl who'd first set him on the path to wealth. Thanks to the unflattering epitaph he gave her before his departure, Megan Powel has been forced to suppress her natural vivacity-and now she blames Lord Whitly for her misery. Oblivious to her predicament, Lord Whitly embarks upon her seduction. Through hilarious antics and wagers, he chases his intended...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.
In the end, April...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
10) Phoebe's light
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
Publisher
Digital Manga
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The vampire-slaying hunter known only as "D," with a reputation of taking care of business by way of the sword, is on another bounty run this time to rescue the beautiful daughter of a wealthy village elder, kidnapped by the vampire Noble, Mayerling. But what happens when another group of bounty hunters have taken up the same assignment? Head of the notorious mercenary clan, the Marcus family, oldest brother Borgoff leads his not-so-merry band of...
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, kid-genius Robin Hood has invented amazing time-traveling technology! Except his company only wants to use the tech to make sure history stays exactly the same. So Robin decides to take matters into his own hands, jump through time, and help people throughout the ages! Along the way the time traveler teams up with other caring kids, but with Robin's heartless boss chasing the group, how much longer can they keep up this noble...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in A Secret Never Told, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Philomena Amesbury, expatriate Countess of Dunbridge, is bored. Coney Island in the sweltering summer of 1908 offers no shortage of diversions for a young woman of means, but sea bathing, horse racing, and even amusement parks can't hold a candle to uncovering dastardly plots...
15) The blood guard
Author
Series
Blood Guard trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove's seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high-speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too? His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact, she's a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure, thirty-six noble souls whose safety is...
17) Warrior reborn
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Former special ops agent Chase Noble has been searching his whole life for the place where he belongs. As a descendant of Fae, he senses fate has more in store for him. And he will not rest until he discovers what his true purpose is. When he travels back in time to medieval Scotland, he discovers his mission is to save a beautiful woman--the same woman he is destined to be with. Christina MacDowylt possesses the gift of foresight. Prisoner of her...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese expatriate tells his story of escaping the hardship and repression of Mao's Cultural Revolution by joining the dissident underground, swimming miles across open water to Hong Kong, and eventually moving to the United States as a refugee.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gods Bankers has it all: a rare exposé and an astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the churchs aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger dilemmas of the...
20) Madame
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob, a wealthy and well-connected American couple, move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess discovers there are 13 guests. Panic-stricken, Anne insists her loyal maid Maria disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noble woman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful...