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1) Fishnet
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Debut novel in which a woman's search for her missing sister leads her into the world of contemporary sex work. Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked out of her sister Fiona's flat and disappeared. Six years later--worn down by a tedious job, childcare, and an aching absence in her life--Fiona's mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that Rona had been working as a prostitute before she vanished. Driven to discover the...
Author
Series
Daisy Thorne mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Ooh La La regular Mel Haverstock left the hair salon that morning, no one expected it would be her final parting. But when Daisy closes shop Saturday night, she finds her client dead as the mullet cut...But who would want to harm a hair on poor Mel's head? Suspicions higher than a beehive pile on Daisy when it's revealed that she and Mel had tangled back in high school, and DNA evidence seems to color her guilty"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Daisy Thorne's Ooh La La hair salon in the charming village of Edgemead in Surrey, England, where you'll find the latest styles, the juiciest gossip -- and the most tantalizing murder clues... No one would ever accuse famous opera star Dame Serena Levanté of lacking a flare for the dramatic. Unfortunately, it's curtains down on the dysfunctional diva when she's found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her elegant home. Solving an opera...
4) 100 days
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes her to age rapidly. This is the story of three unlikely friends learning to live life to its fullest before ultimately letting it go"--
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter discovers a German U-boat—and a plot to seize the English coast—in this thrilling World War II adventure novel.
The Cornish coast is wrecker’s country. Mile after mile of jagged rock means certain death for passing ships—and untold riches for the locals brave enough to swim out and take whatever they can find. For journalist Walter Craig, it’s a pleasant destination for a seaside vacation . . ....
The Cornish coast is wrecker’s country. Mile after mile of jagged rock means certain death for passing ships—and untold riches for the locals brave enough to swim out and take whatever they can find. For journalist Walter Craig, it’s a pleasant destination for a seaside vacation . . ....
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
More than 2,300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a glorious ancient city that sank without trace beneath the waves. Ever since that time people have wondered where this lost city, Atlantis, might be and whether it actually existed. Students will thrill as they learn about the different theories of, and search efforts for, this mythical city.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Enrique Olvera is a leading talent on the gastronomic stage, reinventing the cuisine of his native Mexico to global acclaim - yet his true passion is Mexican home cooking. Tu Casa Mi Casa is Mexico City/New York-based Olvera's ode to the kitchens of his homeland. He shares 100 of the recipes close to his heart - the core collection of basic Mexican dishes - and encourages readers everywhere to incorporate traditional and contemporary Mexican tastes...
9) Amen
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
When a newly commissioned SS Lieutenant witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews, he knows he must act. The only symphatic ear he finds is a young priest with ties to the Vatican. As the two unlikely allies fight to reveal the truth to the Church and world, they discover that a man of conscience can commit treason and a man of God can commit heresy in order to thwart genocide.
10) Case histories
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Author
Series
Robert Renwick volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New York art expert Colin Grant is sent to Vienna and bid on a priceless Old Master on behalf of a Texan millionaire. No sooner has Grant landed in Austria than his seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare, as he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy to unleash a wave of international terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For Nina O'Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame. But Bob Renwick is not there by chance. He is on the hunt for two terrorists who have left a trail of murder in their wake, and soon Nina is caught up in a grim game of life or death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet London pub, Bob Renwick, is handed a list of names. The Minus List has been compiled by the ruthless executive of an international munitions firm, engaged in training terrorists and arms dealing, and he intends to remove anyone who might get in his way. To be on the list means death for the target, their friends and family, and Renwick's name is third.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
English girl Sheila Matthews' innocent holiday to Poland becomes a nightmare when the German Army invade in the summer of 1939. Working for the Polish underground as a double-agent, she plays a dangerous game, and is soon suspected by the Germans. Forced to flee to the forest and hunted by a ruthless German officer, she must rely on the dashing Captain Adam Wisniewski to help her home.
18) Above suspicion
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion; in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures. Soon the couple are racing across Europe and must use all their ingenuity to stay one step...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lost since its premiere on the BBC more than 50 years ago, this six-part Classic Doctor Who story has been meticulously animated based on the original audio recordings! In this serial, the Doctor along with his traveling companion Jamie (Frazer Hines) find themselves transported to 1866 shortly after losing the TARDIS. Their problems only worsen when the Doctor is forced by the Daleks to help them in their latest plot to implement the human factor...
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