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1221) In the arms of the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A NOTORIOUS INDIAN FIGHTER AND GUNMAN,"ROCKY MOUNTAIN" JIM NUGENT HAD A SOFT SPOT IN HIS HEART FOR ONE THING: HIS BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND. IN 1873, HE HE WAS DOING ALL THAT HE COULDTO SEE THAT COLORADO'S ESTES PARK -- HOME OF LONGS PEAK, THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS -- REMAINED PUBLIC LAND.
1222) Martin Chuzzlewit
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
1223) The secret pocket
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
1228) Black narcissus
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Based on the true story of Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., who rises from complete obscurity to become a golfing legend. Jones overcomes his own fierce temper, intense passion, and perfectionist tendencies to master the game and wins the Grand Slam, the U.S., British, and Amateur Opens in golf, a feat unequaled even today. But it is Jones's style, personality, and character that separate him from the other professionals in his field. When Jones realizes that...
1231) Snowdrops: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh is searching for a "back seat strangler" who has already murdered four people. When an unpopular forensic scientist is found dead in a British government laboratory, Dalgliesh discovers that almost everyone there could be a suspect. When another body is found nearby, the detective must race against time to find the killer.
1233) The time in between
Author
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"As a new series debuts, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents' influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering...
1238) Air power: Vol. 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.
1239) Air power: Vol. 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.
1240) Air power: Vol. 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.