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Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1991, c1977
Physical Desc
348 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, given secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, finds his mission endangered by the behavior of two of his crew members.
42) Listening woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2005], p1990
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Native American policeman Joe Leaphorn probes the murder of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life.
43) Callander Square
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
2009 Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bodies of two newborn babies have been found in a park in the fashionable London neighborhood of Callander Square. While Inspector Thomas Pitt is fighting to get the squire's aristocratic residents to speak with him, his pretty, well-born wife Charlotte decides to do some detective work of her own. Soon she is unearthing secrets in every house on the square while Thomas tries to discover what would drive a person to murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terrorists lead ex-intelligence officer Robert Renwick on a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of Europe and Asia in this suspense thriller by a master of the spy novel.
For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into her old flame Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached...
For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into her old flame Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached...
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and they are about to be married in the orchard of Green Gables. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises"--
47) Devil's bride
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England′s most eligible bachelor, Devil′s infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date.
...48) Firestorm
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Berkley mass market ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caught in a firestorm in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna Pigeon, her patient, and the fire fighters survive, except for one who is found in his fire shelter with a knife in his back. Anna must attend to the physical and emotional needs of the survivors and identify the murderer, while snow delays their rescue.
49) Paragon Walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As More...the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome fa?ades of Paragon Walk?something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.
52) Clay's ark
Author
Series
Patternists volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. Resisting the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, but succumbing would mean relinquishing their humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland -- and, in doing so, endanger the world."--bn.com....
Author
Series
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission that will test his abilities to the limit: he is to set sail immediately for Cape Horn, to intercept a powerful frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. Aubrey's beloved ship, HMS Surprise, is up to the task, but many of her sailors are untried. Aubrey's confidant, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence....
Author
Series
Discworld volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof....
57) The ghostway
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Edition
1st Harper & Row ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reissued to tie-in with Hillerman's Coyote Waits. Tribal policeman Jim Chee goes after a killer-and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost to the dark underbelly of LA to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death. "A first-rate story of suspense and mystery"-The New Yorker. Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
358 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent is found dead on the FBI firing range. Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis are assigned to solve the case and they try to keep their forbidden love affair secret at the same time.
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne's daughter, fourteen year old Rilla, can think of little else but day dreaming of her first dance and hoping for her first kiss. However, everything changes at Ingleside when Rilla's brothers go off to fight in the 'Great War' and she comes across an orphaned child that requires care and a loving home."--Amazon.
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