Michael Prichard
2) Betty Zane
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Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
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[2006]
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6 CDs (ca. 8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In all his years of detecting, Nero Wolfe has never encountered an investigation as damnably messy as this one. For what began as a clean case of larceny quickly sank into a quagmire of blackmail and broken promises, international scandal and cold-blooded murder. Now Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, must bridge eras and oceans to find the link between a Wild West lynching and a respected British peer. Only then can they save Wolfe's beautiful...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 15
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p1995
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6 CDs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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p1995
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5 CDs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Pour Amour perfume contest reeks of death when Louis Dahlmann is robbed of the riddles and then shot dead. The LBA ad firm wants the clever campaign to continue and hires Nero Wolfe to locate the pilfered paper. While Archie trails the scent of fragrant ladies, Wolfe tracks a murderer and detects something foul close to home.
11) Too many cooks
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p2000
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7 CDs (8 hr., 22 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Not much will stir Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone, but when the gourmand is invited by the greatest chefs in the world to a gathering of Les Quinze Mat?res, he will brave anything to dine at their table. Yet Wolfe finds himself embroiled in something sinister when a chef is fatally stabbed during a taste-testing contest. The plot thickens as the detective goes after a taste of vengeance-- and a ticket out of town."--Container.
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 10
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2003
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5 CDs (5 hrs. 24 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tantor Media
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2006
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9 sound discs (11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Describes how two American Merchant Marines manned the guns of their crippled tanker to fight off Axis dive-bombers for two days as the sinking tanker was towed by destroyers to the island of Malta to prevent Rommel's North Africa advance.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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[2009]
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6 sound discs (7 hr, 34 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Originally published in 1946, The Silent Speaker unfolds yet another mystery starring the vainglorious detective Nero Wolfe and his quick-thinking assistant Archie Goodwin. When Cheney Boone, the Director of the Bureau of Price Regulation, is murdered with a monkey wrench just minutes before he presents a speech at a National Industrial Association dinner, the Association hires Nero Wolfe to solve the troubling murder mystery.
19) The lost world
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Professor Challenger novels volume 1
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Tantor Media, Inc
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c2009
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7 sound discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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On a zoology expedition up the Amazon, Professor Challenger has made an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to Journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way....
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p1996
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5 CDs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Detective Nero Wolfe suspects that the death of Faith Usher, a woman who talked often of taking her life, was in fact murder, and he is more determined that ever to investigate after being warned by four men not to take the case.