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61) Cloud warriors
Author
Publisher
Roundfire Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the century... Anthropology professor Terry Castro, leading a summer-school program in the Peruvian rain forest, stumbles upon the remnant of a nation of tall, white-skinned warriors from the time of the Incan empire. But, when a simple accident leaves Castro poisoned, a series of events are set in motion that threaten his life, and the extinction of the tribe. With the help of a young medium, Carrie Waters, Castro tries to find a...
62) The fallen star
Author
Series
Nocturnals volume 3
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
193 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dawn, Tobin, and Bismark awaken one evening to a disaster: all of the forest's pomelos have been mysteriously poisoned! As the Nocturnal Brigade sets out to investigate, they encounter Iris, a mysterious aye-aye, who claims monsters from the moon are to blame. While the three heroes suspect a more earthly explanation, the animals of the valley are all falling ill. And then Tobin gets sick, too! The Nocturnal Brigade must race to find answers, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When magic itself has been poisoned and her undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman, Allie Beckstrom and her fellow renegades must elude the Authority to find the cure before they are no longer able to stop the sickness from spreading.
65) Frequency
Author
Series
Fallout volume 3
Publisher
Lisa Harris
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, law enforcement agencies across the country rely on forensic tools, DNA testing, and crime labs. But what if that technology was suddenly no longer available? No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it's going to be back up, but everyone knows exactly where they were the moment it went down. And now, with no electricity, no internet, and no modern technology, the men and...
Author
Series
Flower House mystery volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sierra Ravenswood has embraced her role as owner of Flower House floral shop and companion to her former boss's pet, Gus the Corgi. Sierra's team are enjoying their new jobs too. At least until everyone realizes their lack of experience might be contributing to their lack of customers... Sierra decides they need a change in luck, so she creates a special window display featuring lucky bamboo and auspicious flowers. It seems the new arrangement has...
67) The night market
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly's son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been...
69) Poison evidence
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback printing.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the year 1543 of King Henry VIII's turbulent reign, the daughter of a notorious alchemist finds herself suspected of cold-blooded murder...Bianca Goddard employs her knowledge of herbs and medicinal plants to concoct remedies for the disease-riddled poor in London's squalid Southwark slum. But when her friend Jolyn comes to her complaining of severe stomach pains, Bianca's prescription seems to kill her on the spot. Recovering from her shock,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
419 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The "Maybrick Mystery" had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious young girl; resentful, gossiping servants; rumors of gambling and debt; and torrid mutual infidelity. The case cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability, shocking and exciting the public...
72) Shadowscent
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
362 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death. Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard. Now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned, Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington trade edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Good deeds build good character, and good character is what the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies is all about. Lady Phoebe--with the tireless assistance of Eva--has organized a luncheon to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging the students to participate in the cooking and the baking. But too many cooks add up to a recipe for disaster when the school's headmistress, Miss Finch, is fatally poisoned. The girls at Haverleigh all come...
74) Lies like poison
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her evening tea so she'd never be able to hurt Raven again. But someone got cold feet, and the group fell apart. Three years later, on the eve of Raven's seventeenth birthday, his stepmother turns up dead. When belladonna...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxii, 448 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1856, a baying crowd of over 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford prison to watch the hanging of Dr. William Palmer, "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey" as Charles Dickens once called him. Palmer was convicted of poisoning and suspected in the murders of dozens of others, including his best friend, his wife, and his mother-in-law--and cashing in on their insurance to fuel his worsening gambling addiction. Highlighting his...
78) In a jam
Author
Series
Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When rat poison is discovered in the jars of Naomi's strawberry jam sold at the Swiss Miss, Cheryl sets out to prove her friend is not the one responsible for poisoning anyone. But first, she needs to figure out who did it and why. After several people in Sugarcreek end up in the hospital due to the contaminated conserve, Cheryl follows the trail to the perpetrator of the crime and ends up in an unexpected place. As she and Naomi's stepson, Levi....
Author
Publisher
One World, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps--but officials rebuffed them,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the worst cases of syphilis to Sigmund Freud's first cases of hysteria, from baffling new disorders in 19th century Britain to the modern scourge of autism, this book traces the long overlooked history of mercury poisoning. It demonstrates with clarity how chemical and environmental clues may have been missed as medical "experts," many of them blinded by decades of systemic bias, instead placed blamed on parental behavior or children's biology....