Charles Martin
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes-- and ends up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. The Joe Sue the public sees with her perfect life is a far cry from the private one with a traumatic youth, a history of pills, and desperate for a child of her own. Their paths have diverged-- but when Joe Sue hits...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Son of Man presents key moments from the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and explores the lives of His followers in descriptive, novelistic words ... Martin illuminates key moments from Scripture with stories such as "Where the Father's Love Found Him," "Betrayed," and "The Borrowed Tomb." Martin's writing offers a way to see how Jesus' life and the lives of His disciples revealed an unwavering confidence in the power and presence of God."--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.' At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...
Author
Series
Annals of discrete mathematics volume 57
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs, first published in 1980, has become the classic introduction to the field. This new Annals edition continues to convey the message that intersection graph models are a necessary and important tool for solving real-world problems. It remains a stepping stone from which the reader may embark on one of many fascinating research trails. The past twenty years have been an amazingly fruitful period of research...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 374 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the uneven rise and slow decline of segregation in American college athletics, Charles H. Martin shows how southern colleges imposed their policies of racial exclusion on surprisingly compliant northern teams and explains the social forces that eventually forced these southern schools to accept integrated competition. Martin emphasizes not just the racism prevalent in football and basketball in the South, but the effects of this discrimination...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (approximately 7 hours, 35 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Being human returns for a gripping second season as vampire Mitchell, werewolf George, and ghost Annie encounter new enemies in their fight to lead something close to normal lives. It's tough being supernatural. Mitchell's romance with a feisty doctor is disrupted by a vampire community in disarray. George's relationship with a new girlfriend is undermined by an uncontrollable twist in his werewolf existence.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A misunderstood convict and a troubled GI meet on furlough and try to crowd a lifetime of love and laughter into eight days of happiness in this tender wartime love story.
14) Rich and strange
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Also known as East of Shanghai, this is a seafaring comedy from legendary director Alfred Hitchcock's early years in the British film industry. Fred Hill and his wife Emily lead a boring existence in the London suburbs. When the Hills come into an inheritance from a wealthy uncle, Fred quits his mundane job and they embark on a world cruise to get a taste of the high life. But all does not go as planned as the couple's voyage becomes fraught with...
Author
Series
Marcella volume 3
Language
English
Description
Marcella waits anxiously for Grace's body to be found and tries to fit together the pieces of the night by searching CCTV footage. Sylvie, distraught over her daughter's death, is livid to learn of Grace and Jason's relationship.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Language
English
Description
Anna, a friend of Wallander's daughter, turns up out of the blue looking for help. When she disappears, Wallander is forced to break the silence with his daughter Linda. The investigations lead Wallander to a Christian cult, with a vendetta against modern society.
Author
Series
Marcella volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Gibson family contacts the police about Grace's disappearance, while Marcella tries to make sense of her vague memories of visiting Grace the night before. Sex-worker Cara's habit of robbing her clients lands her in danger.
Author
Series
Marcella volume 1
Language
English
Description
More than a decade after quitting the force to start a family, former detective sergeant Marcella Backland is devastated by the breakdown of her marriage. When a detective comes seeking her opinion on an unsolved case she had investigated, Marcella returns to police work to try to catch the killer.
Author
Series
Marcella volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Marcella is called to investigate a body found inside a wall, she is horrified to discover that she knew the victim: Leo Priestley, a young boy who went missing years ago while walking home with her son, Edward.