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Par Anthony Horowitz. 2008
Alone in Sydney, Alex Rider is recruited by the Australian government to infiltrate an organized people-smuggling ring: the criminal underworld…
of Snakeheads. Working undercover as a refugee he moves to Bangkok, where he meets someone he can trust - a fellow agent and true friend: or is there any such thing in the poisonous world of espionage? Sequel to "Ark angel" (DC35952). For junior high readers. 2008. (Alex Rider adventure ; 7)Par William Roache. 2007
William Roache has been an actor on Britain's soap opera Coronation Street for over 47 years. In this autobiography William…
gives us an insight into what it has been like to play Ken for all those years. 2007.Par Maryann McFadden. 2009
Set in the lush, rolling hills of northern New Jersey and the romantic, windswept dunes of Cape Cod, this is…
the story of three generations of women who find their lives, and dreams, suddenly transformed in ways they never could have imagined; and the journey of one woman who comes to realize that when you're a mother, or a daughter, you are never truly free. 2010, c2009.Par William Shatner. 2017
From his first time riding at age ten, William Shatner has felt a deep love for horses. Whether riding them,…
communicating with them, or simply appreciating their beauty, he has been enthralled by horses ever since he was a child. And for decades, he has sought to bring that joy to others -- children, veterans, and those with disabilities, among others -- through his annual Hollywood Charity Horse Show. In this book, Shatner speaks from the heart about the remarkable effect horses have had on his life, and on the lives of others. Drawing not just from his own decades of experience but also from a wealth of classic horse stories, this book captures the unique connection between humans and horses -- and the power, courage, mindfulness, and healing that they can inspire in us. 2017.Par Daniel Drache, Harold A Innis. 1995
A selection of Harold Innis' most significant and representative writing. One of Canada's most influential thinkers, Innis was deeply interested…
in understanding how economic and social forces interacted and shaped the modern world. 1995.Par Pauline Gedge. 1982
A universe ruled by immortal sun gods is threatened by dark forces. The struggle that engulfs them imperils the harmony…
of their worlds as they are confronted by incomprehensible evil. Winner of the Jean Boujassy Award. Nominated for the 1985 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1982.Par Pierre Berton. 1987
Par Rosemary Trollope. 1998
The author, Joanna Trollope's mother, portrays her own and her mother's Glasgow childhood. The grandparental Glasgow house was the steadfast…
rock. Later came a move to rural Herefordshire, but for Rosemary there was always a loyalty to Glasgow. This book is packed with memories of a vivid childhood, also revealing how that childhood shaped the author's subsequent life and ideas. 1998.Par Michael Crichton. 2005
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a…
mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters of New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. 2005.Par Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.Par Jessica Blair. 2010
Whitby, 1879. Following the death of her parents in the Tay Bridge disaster, twenty-three-year-old Lena Carnforth expects to inherit at…
least half of her father's thriving shipping and merchant business. But her father leaves the entire business to his stepson, James. Instead of working, it's generally accepted that Lena will wed lifelong friend, Alistair, even though she has doubts about their relationship. Then Lena meets the attractive shipping rival Peter Hustwick and sees him as the answer to all her prayers. She also now has the opportunity to help build up Peter's business - and undermine James's firm, which she regards as rightly hers. But when disaster strikes, Lena is devastated to realise just how carried away she's become with her desire for success. 2010.Par Jamie Doran. 1999
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space.…
An icon of the 20th century, he also became a danger to himself and a threat to the Soviet state until he was killed in a plane crash at the age of 34. The book is based on material from sensitive KGB files and restricted documents from the Russian space authorities. 1999.Par Stephen King. 2006
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his…
cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly. Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture-and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go...and can't stay away from. 2006.Par James Risen. 2006
New York Times reporter recounts anecdotes, often from anonymous sources, concerning CIA efforts to thwart terrorists since September 11, 2001.…
Discusses the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program, the search for weapons of mass destruction, and the return of Afghanistan's opium trade. Posits that the CIA mission failed. Bestseller. 2006.Par Cathy Hopkins. 2003
Squidge has just started going out with Lia, and has promised to always be honest with her. But things get…
complicated when a film crew arrives in town and his dream to work on a movie comes true. Savannah, the teen star, adopts Squidge as her personal runner and starts to show an interest in him, but will he be able to keep her happy without breaking his promise to Lia? For Junior and Senior High readers. Some descriptions of sex. 2005, c2003. (Truth or dare ; 4)Par William Boyd. 1984
Zany tale about Henderson Dores, an Englishman living in the United States. His three aims in life are to be…
more American, to learn fencing, and to choose between his ex-wife and his new mistress. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1984.Par Stephen Travis. 1994
A brief guide to the stories of the New Testament of the Bible. Also provides a guideline for reading, understanding,…
and interpreting the teachings of the New Testament on your own. 1994.Par Stephen Travis. 1994
Par M. F. K Fisher. 1993
Shortly before her death in 1992, Fisher decided to publish a memoir about the end of her first marriage and…
her brief, tragic second marriage. She wanted a record of how she felt at the time instead of a version reinterpreted by her older self. Fisher put together unpublished letters, short stories, and excerpts from journals of that period to tell her story. Sequel to "Long Ago in France" .1993.Par Susanne Reber, Rob Renaud. 2005
On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body…
frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.