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401) Patriot games
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of an undercover FBI agent who assumed the role of a mobster in order to infiltrate the Gambino crime syndicate, in an account that describes how he was groomed within the mafia itself to understand its operations and attitudes.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can be seen as essentially one, each successive brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy can finally be taken. This is a story of a brotherhood in three acts: Act I is John F. Kennedy's presidency, as seen from...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told story of Eric Roberts, who infiltrated a network of Nazi sympathizers in Great Britain in order to protect the country from the grips of fascism June 1940: Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler's army, and Britain is his next target. Winston Churchill exhorts the country to resist the Nazis, and the nation seems to rally behind him. But in secret, some British citizens are plotting to hasten an invasion. Agent Jack tells the incredible...
Author
Publisher
Viking / Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2016.
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Language
English
Description
The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Marvel comics. But it was...
Author
Series
Deadwood Dick volume 5
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nat Love, the one and only Deadwood Dick of the dime novel era, writes down his version of certain events, straightening out numerous misconceptions raised in the popular and sanitized dime novels. Author Joe R. Lansdale's stories about Nat Love are based loosely on the real Nat Love, who may have told a few windies about his time in the West, but at the same time revealed that African-Americans of that era were not all cooks and custodians. In fact,...
408) Gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"80 sweet and savory recipes for any Halloween lover to bake if you dare! From the cute and classic to ghoulish and gory, this book spans the spooky spectrum and has you covered for the entire season. From the very first crisp day of fall, our attention eagerly turns to one of the most beloved times of the year-sweaters weather, leaf peeping, and yes, pumpkin spice! But autumn baking takes the cake. Here esteemed author Cayla, known for turning everyday...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"With the overlooked Jack Fleck still playing the course, NBC-TV proclaimed that the legendary Ben Hogan had won his record fifth U.S. Open and signed off from San Francisco. Undaunted, the forgotten Iowan rallied to overcome a nine-shot deficit over the last three rounds--still a U.S. Open record--and made a pressure-packed putt to tie Hogan on the final hole of regulation play. The two men then squared off in a tense, 18-hole playoff from which...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Retells fifteen fairy tales that celebrate heroes for the power of their hearts instead of their swords, including King Arthur, who rules by listening to others, and Prince Charming, who wishes people would stop typecasting him.
Series
Jack Ryan volume 5
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
CIA deputy intelligence director, Jack Ryan, finds recovering laundered drug money from the Colombian cartel isn't as dangerous as the power games in the nation's capitol.
414) Patriot games
Series
Jack Ryan volume 1
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A former CIA analyst vacationing with his family in London helps thwart a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family and becomes the target of the terrorist whose brother he killed.
415) Last snow
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions-- Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter-- and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
416) Nick Jr. favorites 6
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Includes fan favorites from some of Nick Jr.'s most popular television programs.
417) The treatment
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002, ©2001.
Language
English
Description
Detective Jack Caffery returns to investigate a brutal attack on a London couple and the mysterious disappearance of their young son, a crime that brings him face to face with nightmarish memories of his own past.
Author
Series
Jack Carpenter novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
A specialist in finding missing persons, ex-cop Jack Carpenter is stunned when he is hired by convicted serial killer Abb Smith to find Smith's grandson, only to discover that the case involves Heather Rinker, a childhood friend of Jack's own daughter.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime -- from the Whitechapel murders to JonBenet Ramsey -- often contradicting conventional wisdom and legal decisions. Jack the Ripper. Lizzie Borden. The Zodiac Killer. Certain homicide cases maintain an undeniable, almost mystical hold on the public imagination. They touch a nerve deep within us...
420) First daughter
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blaming himself for the accident that ended his daughter's life, ATF agent Jack McClure vows to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a newly elected president, an effort that pits him against a lethal and calculating adversary. (Suspense).
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