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721) Diablo mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump--New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen--tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you--and what really happened to him--when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics"--
723) Songbirds: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages 22 cm.
Description
"It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the black market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha, who works on the island as a nanny and maid--having...
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Formats
Description
"A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find him"--
"In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an award-winning...
726) A thousand questions
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in two voices, eleven-year-olds Mimi, who is visiting her wealthy grandparents in Karachi, Pakistan, for the first time and Sakina, daughter of the grandparents' cook, form an unexpected friendship.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
6 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
-- The instant New York Times For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive....
729) Waiting for spring
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics,an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Description
Mitzuki is a shy girl who is about to enter high school and longs to experience true friendship, but struggles to open her heart to others.
731) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Teenage Sophia lives with her family in Central America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parents' work.
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (590 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet and 3 Blu-rays.
Description
Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. Their mission is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill-equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This set brings together six films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, South Korea, and Turkey; each is a cinematic revelation, depicting...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages 24 cm.
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers"--
734) An ordinary man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An infamous war criminal and former general spending his life on the run from international authorities is suddenly moved to a new hideout, where he develops a relationship with the maid that looks after him. But when he discovers that she is actually an agent hired to protect him, he makes a decision that will drastically change both of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. Devine served America's interests...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
738) Strange star
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
230 pages
Description
Told primarily by servant Felix, a former slave, Lord Byron and friends gather to tell ghost stories on a stormy night in 1816 Switzerland, but a scarred girl arrives with her own dark and dangerous tale.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet, who became involved in many aspects of the New Deal.
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