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681) XOM-B
Author
Pub. Date
p2014
Description
"A rising talent, Robinson is well-known in the community of action/adventure fans and has received amazing quotes in the past from big name authors like James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Scott Sigler. XOM-B has a great hook that is also an amazing plot twist, and is poised to bring him to the next level. Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An impoverished nineteenth-century woman's coming of age and struggles against injustice are placed against a backdrop of the growing influence of Charles Dickens and shaped by an enamored young man, a scheming coal baron, a friendly dwarf, and an unconventional philanthropist.
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
The Vet Volunteers are a group of ordinary kids with the special job of helping animals at a veterinary clinic. From saving puppies in Pennsylvania to helping manatees in Florida, the Vet Volunteers work with all kinds of animals and have great times with their best friends.
Author
Pub. Date
p2013
Description
The heiress to the Bellerose estate has gone missing and what a waste of a dowry it is! Charlotte Bellamy's future husband, Lord Geoffrey Seavers, is in desperate need to finance his royal fleet, yet somehow Charlotte disappeared and the Bellamy inheritance slipped through his fingers. Enter Alicia, a tavern maid of uncertain parentage. Yes, she's a bit young and headstrong, but no one at court has actually ever seen the Lady Bellamy, and Alicia's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Stephanie Bloomfield joins her sisters, Valerie and Norah, at their childhood home in Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father has a heart attack. Steffie hasn't been home for three years, and by the time she arrives, her father has begun to recover. Steffie fled Orchard Valley when the love of her life, Charles Tomaselli, rejected her. She may be a grown woman now, but she's in no hurry to run into Charles again. But Steffie and Charles are thrown...
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
"Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploraiton is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? As Mary Roach discovers, it's possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes...
Author
Pub. Date
p2010, [c2013]
Description
Best laid plans: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody had ever seen, yet structural engineer Abra also had a will as strong as a steel girder. But he has plans for her that even this spirited beauty could not resist.
From this day: B.J. Clark, the manager of an inn in Vermont, resents the efforts of the inn's new owner, Taylor Reynolds, to modernize it, while Taylor's fascination with B.J. makes him think about abandoning his...
690) Mother knows best
Author
Pub. Date
p2016, c2015
Description
There are a lot of people who might have wanted Mr. Cavendish dead, from his bereaved, betrayed widow to the shady owners of the local strip joint. Not even Margie's best friend, whose daughter didn't get into Holy Oaks, is above suspicion. Can the overtaxed PI solve the case before things get even weirder?
691) The wind-up girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In a chilling future, calories are the greatest commodity. Undercover as a factory manager, Anderson Lake combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko, an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman. But what happens when calories become currency and bio-terrorism becomes a tool for...
692) London twist
Author
Pub. Date
p2013.
Description
For Delilah, the Mossad's top seductress, the parameters of the assignment were routine. The contractor: MI6. The objective: infiltrate a terror network, this one operating out of London. The stakes: a series of poison gas attacks on civilian population centers. There's just one wrinkle. The target is a woman-- as smart, beautiful, and committed as Delilah herself. And for a cynical operative thrust suddenly out of her element, the twists and turns...
693) Smoky Joe's Cafe
Author
Pub. Date
[2015], p2001
Description
Thommo and ten of his war mates develop physical and mental problems on their return to Australia. Angry at their hostile reception, they recruit an ex-Viet Cong with "special skills" and plan their revenge, but in real life, they're too screwed up to put up a fight. The team is transformed when Wendy, a woman whose baby needs a bone-marrow transplant, moulds them into a viable fighting unit.
694) Hope
Author
Pub. Date
p2014
Description
Born in 1903, and until his death in 2003, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium, from vaudeville to television. He virtually invented modern stand-up comedy. He helped redefine what it means to be a star. Richard Zoglin shows there is still much to be learned about this public figure, who, unlike many Hollywood stars, truly loved being famous, appreciated its responsibilities, and...
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
Teacher Leah lost her fiance Johnny Kile to the outside world, breaking her heart and leaving her all alone. All of Pleasant Valley believes that Daniel Glick, widower and newcomer to their secluded Amish community, to be the perfect match for Leah. When Johnny returns, seeking reconciliation, Leah must choose between them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store-- marriage, a love affair, a child-- all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
On the eighty-fifth floor of a glittering high-rise in Los Angeles, Robert Tarza steps into the lobby of a law firm to discover his partner Simon Rafer lying in a pool of blood. Robert had worked with Simon for decades, and their relationship was fraught with conflict. But he never imagined he would wind up as the prime suspect for his colleague's murder.