David Colacci
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Late on the evening of October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of 18 raiders descended on Harpers Ferry at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured....
62) Beastly things
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
296 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
xviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An assault on a pediatrician reveals a web of corruption and deception in the New York Times–bestselling, Silver Dagger Award–winning series.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men-a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town-have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller in which political fixer Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseas
When a shadowy American diplomatic complex is attacked in North Africa, the White House is besieged by accusations of incompetence and wild conspiracy theories. Eager to learn the truth, the president and his staff turn to Peter Rena and
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive--paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been...
70) Hearts of sand
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alwych is the stereotypical old money Connecticut beach town...and Chapin Waring is the worst thing that ever happened to it. She was from one of the richest families in Alwych until thirty years ago when the young debutante was revealed to a bank robber and a murderer. She disappeared, but Alwych has never forgotten her, or let her friends and family forget. So when, after being spotted around town, Chapin turns up dead - stabbed to death in her...
71) One of our own
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious black van is spotted by several people at various times in the area around Cavanaugh Street, Philadelphia's Armenian-American enclave. Presumed by some to be related to the increasing ICE raids around the area, the mystery deepens one night when a body falls out of the back of the van when speeding through the neighborhood. Marta Warkowski, a reclusive older woman, is found bound up in a garbage bag after it falls out of the van. In...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Beyond ADHD weaves Emmersons personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Playing off the themes in the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Where the Wild Things Are, this informative, practical, and encouraging guide will help parents guide boys down the path to healthy and authentic manhood. Wild Things addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of a boy, written by two therapists who are currently engaged in clinical work with boys and their parents and who are also fathers raising five sons. Contains...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jennifer Witt is put on trial for murdering her husband and son, her attorney, Dismas Hardy, believes that the years of abuse she suffered will provide a foolproof defense. But Jennifer rejects that defense--abused or not, she didn't kill anyone. Can Hardy convince anyone of that?
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend, parish priest Tibor Kasparian, is wrongly arrested for murder, a distraught Gregor Demarkian breaks his personal rules about consulting in his determination to uncover the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xv, 687 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
William Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the Chief, was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and thirteen magazines. He quickly learned how to use this media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power.
The son of a gold miner, Hearst underwent...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death-fake handbags of every designer label.
The dead man was one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Once Commissario Guido Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor' Immacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the Casa di Cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients. Brunetti offers to make some inquiries but finds no...
79) Hybrids
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Complex biomechanical hybrids, made with alien gene-splicing techniques and spawned in an underground facility deep below New Mexico, threaten the world, while the U.S. president rages against the scientists who have kept him in the dark. Human science proves ineffectual against the hybrids, and humanity's only hope lies in the first generation of hybrids, Mark and Gina, who are unaware of their own origin and hidden superpowers.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length-some are almost novellas, others no more than a page-but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither...