Paul Michael
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dive in to the depths of the ocean to discover different species of sharks in this nonfiction picture book with simple text and illustrations"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mason gives a series of vivid glimpses into brain science, the last frontier of medicine, and explores fragility of the brain and the sense of self, life, and order that resides there.
12) Origin: a novel
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
13) Inferno: a novel
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon finds himself on the run in Florence as he is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces, Dante's "Inferno", and must battle a chilling adversary and grapple with an ingenious riddle.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century. - Back cover.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon is lured to Washington, D.C., where he believes he is to give a speech. Instead, he finds that an old friend has been abducted. Only Langdon can unlock the hidden mysteries that can save his friend's life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence...
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 1
Language
English
Description
A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...