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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter's college roommates. In September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected. Her father, Larry Ray, was just released from prison, having spent three years behind...
983) Austral
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
276 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The great geoengineering projects have failed. The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice. Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of...
984) The good assassin: how a Mossad agent and a band of survivors hunted down the Butcher of Latvia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice, a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids-- including a witch, a robot, a mutant and a time-displaced little girl-- living together in Los Angeles. What could possibly go wrong? After saying goodbye to one of their own during a conflict with some aggressive alien invaders, the Runaways are attempting to get back to normal-- which for them means video games, camping trips and, of course, neutralizing potential violent threats to the City of Angels. Meanwhile, a popular radio...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton reporter volume 9
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton is invited to a rat-jitsu martial arts championship in a snowy faraway land, much to the famouse reporter's surprise. With his helpful relatives, Thea, Trap and Benjamin, Geronimo goes to cover the event for the Rodent's Gazette. But something strange is happening. After each championship match, the winner disappears without a trace! Will Geronimo get involved and solve the mystery of the missing martial artists? Or will he be consumed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Reading like a true-crime novel, this history of the vice district and gang wars of New York's Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s describes the widespread fight to control the district's gambling, opium and prostitution,"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens....
Author
Series
Young Bond series volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
229 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by historical events and by personal history, a shattering, exquisite double portrait of a Norwegian family savaged by World War II and of a man devoted to crimes against humanity, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. Once the Germans conquer Norway in 1940, they quickly discover a tremendous native asset: Henry Oliver Rinnan, a double agent so cruel and manipulative that he would become notorious as one of Norway's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an American hero as he led the NYPD through rescue and recovery efforts of the World Trade Center. Now, he is a former federal prison inmate known as #84888-054, convicted of tax fraud and false statements in 2007. Now for the first time, he talks candidly about his time on the inside: the torture of solitary confinement, the abuse of power, the mental and physical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xlvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (241 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pledge: A sheriff sets out to capture an escaped criminal who murdered his wife and son, only to find that he was hired by a greedy land baron.
Avenging Angel: He was just a humble preacher before he lost everything. In the wake of a ruthless crime that stole his family, his church, and the loves of his life, a man known simply as The Preacher is conflicted between his faith and his need for revenge. But when other innocent people are overrun...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, his seventeen-year-old son initially vowed revenge. But Juan Pablo quickly recognized that reaction entailed following in his father's footsteps--something neither he nor his father ever wanted. Their lives in immense danger, Juan Pablo, his mother, and his sister assumed new identities and fled to Argentina, where he would spend the next two decades grappling with his father's legacy....
Author
Series
Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
1000) Ghost versus ghost
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
What's so scary about the Great Grizzly Forest? Some bears think it's haunted. But that's not about to stop the Bear Scouts. They're going for their Wilderness Survival Badge. Can they survive one night in the woods of Great Grizzly? Or is Great Grizzly really Great Ghostly?
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