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1) Snapshot
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for.
The Civil Rights Movement is less than a distant memory to Lisa Waldren—it is someone else's memory altogether, passed on to her through the pages of history. Her life as a federal prosecutor in Boston feels utterly remote from the marches in the South that changed her father's generation—and the entire nation—forever.
...2) Snapshot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of strange photos draws Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle into a chilling case of medical malpractice Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for Federal prosecutor Lisa Waldrens estranged father wants her to investigate a cold case from his FBI days. Lisa nearly refuses, even though a wrongly convicted man faces execution for murder. Then her father reveals a photograph: a little white girl playing alongside a little black girl at a civil rights rally in 1965 where the crime -- the shooting of a civil rights leader...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
North American edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yorkshire, 1928. Indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton is taking a well-deserved break from her detective work and indulging in her other passion: photography. When her local Photographic Society proposes an outing to the opening of the Brontë Museum, Kate jumps at the chance to visit the setting of Wuthering Heights. But the setting proves to be even more sinister than the dreary classic when a member of their party is found murdered. The event is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While some people escape into books or music, Liv Spyers escapes through her camera's lens, which inspires her to jump into things she might otherwise have no business tackling--like moving to New York City. Hustling to make her dreams come true as a portrait photographer, she runs a pocket-sized studio below her grandparents' West Village brownstone and key shop, where she also lives and works part-time. All of which still has her down to the end...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the "Trail of Tears, " the forced removal of five Southeastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River during the winter of 1838 and 1839.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marti, the reluctant rock princess, and Adam, the undercover guitar wizard, fall for each other, but are in danger of falling apart when tragedy strikes"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning hours of December 7, 1941, Hawaii's Pearl Harbor Naval Base was suddenly and brutally attacked by the Empire of Japan. Without warning, the silence of the morning was shattered by the sound of explosions. Battleships were bombed as they lay at anchor. Airfields and the planes that sat on the tarmac, silent and empty, were peppered with machine gun fire. Smoke, flames, and the sounds of screaming soon filled the air. By the time...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays, anecdotes, illustrations, a bit of verse, and a bunch of photographs reflecting on a young elected official's adventures in Duluth municipal elections, city governance, live music, craft beer, mountain biking, and more embarrassing public life and political lessons than a book this size ought to include.
12) Cars
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color photographs ; 28 cm.
Language
English
13) Tractors
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color photographs ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Catch tractors in action as they tackle pulling, plowing, lifting, and clearing. With large wheels, strong engines, and a variety of attachments, these tough machines work hard on the farm. See dynamic photos of tractors as they chop grass, break up soil, plant seeds, and haul crops. You'll be amazed at all the fascinating tasks these vehicles can do"--Book jacket.
Author
Series
Jerry McNeal volume 7
Publisher
Dorry Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this seventh installment of the Jerry McNeal Series, Jerry and Gunter travel to Salem, Massachusetts to track down yet another victim of the Hash Mark Killer. Finding a ghost in a city known for its haunted past isn't hard--finding the precise spirit they are looking for proves to be slightly more difficult. Once discovered, they must begin the tricky task of convincing the woman she truly is dead. If things aren't challenging enough, Jerry's intuition...
Author
Series
Jerry McNeal volume 1
Publisher
Dorry Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Call it a premonition. Call it intuition. Call it anything you like, but Pennsylvania State Trooper Jerry McNeal simply thinks of it as "that feeling." That feeling may come on without warning, so intense he can't breathe. Or, it may be a gentle nag that pulls at him until he decides to do something about it. He never quite knows what "it" is until he gets there, but when he arrives, he always knows he's found what he is looking for. During one of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following on the heels of The Wings of Morning, the first book in Murray Pura's Snapshots in History series, comes this compelling saga of the Civil War.
In April 1861, Lyndel Keim discovers two runaway slaves in her family's barn. When the men are captured and returned to their plantation, Lyndel and her young Amish beau, Nathaniel King, find themselves at odds with their pacifist Amish colony.
Nathaniel enlists in what will become the famous Iron...
Author
Series
Snapshots in history volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lovers of Amish fiction will quickly sign on as fans of award-winning author Murray Pura as they keep turning the pages of this exciting new historical romance set in 1917 during America's participation in World War I.
Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love. Jude has also fallen in love with flying that new-fangled invention, the aeroplane.
The Amish communities have rejected...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Now that you've brought that amazing new DSLR, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take those great shots. One key element is composition: the creative arrangement of components in the shot, and the way a viewer's eye travels through an image.