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241) The Last Wild
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Last wild volume 1
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English
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Publisher Marketing: In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures...
242) The bootlegger
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Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 7
Pub. Date
[2014], p2014
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English
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It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that...
243) Edge of eternity
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Century trilogy volume 3
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English
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
244) Piranha
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Oregon files adventures volume 10
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English
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During a covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon. But when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning and attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo and his team struggle to fight back against an enemy who seems to be able to anticipate their every move.
245) Bloody genius
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Series
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"At the local state university, two feuding departments face off on the battleground of science versus medicine. Each carries its views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned yet confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate. And as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he's dealing...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at...
247) The gray ghost
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 10
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Jonathon Payton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his...
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Publisher
[Distributed exclusively by] Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014], p2014
Language
English
Description
Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here, " Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and...
249) Unbound
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 44
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay--now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy Barnett--takes a leave of absence to travel and grieve, and lands in Santa Fe in the company of friends Stone Barrington and Ed Eagle. There, fate hands him an unexpected opportunity to exact quiet revenge for his recent loss, from a man who helped to cover up the crime. But when his enemy wises up to Teddy's machinations, a...
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English
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It was in 1928, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne—a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and Winnie-the-Pooh....
251) Operator down
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 12
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing whether a merchant in the fabled Israeli Diamond Exchange was involved in a scheme that could potentially embarrass the state of Israel. But nothing is ever simple in the world of intelligence, as Aaron Bergman--a former leader of an elite direct action team under the Mossad--should have known. Executing the operation as a contractor, a cutout that gave the State of Israel plausible deniability,...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Far beneath the surface of the earth, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable...