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Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior.
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dupayne Museum, founded by Max Dupayne, is dedicated to the preservation of England's history between the world wars. As the museum's trustees, Max's three heirs -- Marcus, Neville, and Caroline -- debate the fate of the Dupayne. Brash psychiatrist Neville is determined to close it down, a position that is bitterly opposed by his two siblings. When Neville is found heinously murdered, Commander Adam Dalgliesh of the Special Investigation Squad...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.365p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty-seven-year-old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discovers a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on life around Cheverell Manor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The setting: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm's. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school's young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and flamboyant businessman who is accustomed to getting what he wants-and in this case what he wants is Commander Adam Dalgliesh to investigate his son's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time—swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment."
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." . . . A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first...
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." . . . A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
In...
10) Original sin
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a brilliant but ruthless publishing house director.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Edition
1st American trade ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The police are trying to stop a psychopathic killer from strangling any more women in remote Larksoken, where Dalgliesh is escaping the hubbub of London.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For five years, Daniel Mendelsohn traveled the globe searching for an answer to the question he had first asked as a boy decades earlier: What really happened to his great-uncle's family during the Holocaust? Here, Mendelsohn weaves together his discoveries about the past, family secrets and Judaism itself. He visits nearly a dozen countries on four continents in pursuit of the truth, eventually interviewing the town's twelve living survivors. Along...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Edition
Abridged
Language
English
Description
Following Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries and friends who round out the extended urban family. From Bluie, a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end,...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad -- "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . . " -- and found the Shiants (the name means holy or enchanted islands). Adam inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property when he was twenty-one: Sea Room describes, and relives, his love affair with the three tiny islands, composed as he prepares to give them to his oldest son.
The Shiants...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country--or even halfway across the world--to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.
In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 254 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
19) Fearless: the undaunted courage and ultimate sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six operator Adam Brown
Author
Publisher
The Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.
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