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702) Called to serve
Author
Publisher
Lazarus Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
627, 13 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
705) The infidel stain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Time and distance have weakened the close bond forged in the jungles. Then a shocking series of murders forces them back together. With the police mysteriously unwilling to investigate, Blake and Avery race against time to find the culprit. But what if he is being protected by some of the highest...
706) Genius
Author
Publisher
Top Cow Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every generation has its military genius. Hannibal of Carthage, Ghengis Khan, General Patton... each shaped by his time. What if the second coming of Alexander the Great wasn't a privileged diplomat or a battle-hardened soldier, but a teenage girl from South Central L.A. named Destiny? Orphaned at birth and a perpetual victim of police brutality, this incomparable strategic genius finds herself uniting the city's organized criminals, gangs, thieves,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film--has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning...
710) The exception to the rulers: exposing oily politicians, war profiteers, and the media that love them
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
711) Riptide rumors
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
446 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As autumn of 1916 descends upon the once-peaceful town of Sunset Cove, Anna McDowell has great hopes that the excitement of the summer will be over, now that a few of the key players in the rum-running ring have been arrested. But with a daring jailbreak getting the town in a dither again, she knows that the danger hasn't passed for anyone in her coastal hometown. With a mayoral election keeping tensions high and the authorities busy searching for...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (8 hr., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The ghost and Mr. Chicken: After deciding to solve a murder mystery, a timid typesetter spends a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
The reluctant astronaut: A small-town carnival worker who is deathly afraid of heights suddenly finds himself working for NASA and getting mixed up in an experimental flight.
The shakiest gun in the West: After leaving the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West, a timid Pennsylvania dentist finds...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 683 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cornered: Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
Desperate: Steve is a postwar trucker who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Steve and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job.
The Phenix City story: A crime-busting lawyer and his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This novel is set in late 1980s in New York City. Prager, an ex-cop turned PI, has a cryptic encounter with his old friend Larry McDonald, the NYPD chief of detectives. Larry slips him a covertly recorded tape of an interrogation of a snitch claiming to know the secret behind the murder of Dexter Mayweather, a major-league drug dealer in the early 1970s. When McDonald himself turns up an apparent suicide, Prager calls in a variety of favors from old...
718) Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society's crusade against books, burlesque, and the social evil
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xi, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
719) A foreign affair
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 652 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper, " a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.
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