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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 2016. [the author] and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known--Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page--but here [the author] also shines...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age, and though she was confronted with serious challenges including the death of her father and struggles with disordered eating, her prospects were bright. She won high school cross country championships in Minnesota, NCAA track and field championships at the University of Colorado, and when she graduated from college, Nike offered her a sponsorship deal. Alberto Salazar...
304) Arctic adventure
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.
305) The Siberia job
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash--until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. Career U.S. Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance provides the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election as a step towards bringing about the fall of NATO, the European...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 732 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Revealing a history of mysterious deaths, shady characters, and moral and political tensions, exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church to trace how the Vatican evolved from an institution of faith into an extremely wealthy corporate power. --Publisher's description.
309) Witless protection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
311) The rum diary
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice to use his words for the corrupt businessman's financial...
312) Rainforest rampage
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Roberts and his robot, Maverick, are ready for the next stage of the robot races which will go through the Amazon rain forest, but his enemy Horace Pelly is equally determined to win--and he does not care how he does it.
313) The fall of Grace
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a shocking secret about her mother is exposed and everyday life is turned upside down, Grace embarks on an adventure, searching for answers about her family's current situation. But she gets more than she bargained for when it turns out that she isn't the only one looking for clues" -- Provided by publisher.
314) The enemy within
Author
Pub. Date
1960
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The shocking, definitive account of the lawyers and media tycoons who enabled the rise of Donald Trump, featuring new revelations from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal team. With his blunt-force fame and the myths he has propagated about himself, Donald Trump has always moved in a world of gossip barons, crooked lawyers, and porn stars. But when he became the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2016, all of these characters crawled...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other employees, but 'starting a bonfire on creepy sexual behavior...
317) Invisible: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An Army veteran and intelligence agent goes undercover as a janitor at a federal courthouse to pursue his own brand of justice in a thriller that's part John Grisham, part Robert Crais. As a young man, Paul McGrath rebelled against his pacifist father by becoming a standout Army recruit and the star of his military intelligence unit. But lingering regrets about their relationship make him return home, only to find his father dead, seemingly murdered....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club-- an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs-- explains why. A character-driven...