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1) David Bowie
Series
Publisher
Future Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
'Bowie's back & bigger than ever! 'The Next Day' at No. 1, a huge scramble for tickets to his V&A exhibition & his cultural currency has never been higher – what better time to celebrate his legacy with a one-off special revisiting all of the music, the myths & the mayhem of The Man Who Owned The World? We raid the NME archive for the most thrilling & revealing interviews from Ziggy, Berlin & beyond, reassess
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Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This book first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature from the previous six years, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Dana, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. Eight of the essays were first published in the English Review 1918-19, but Lawrence continued to work on his material, with the...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States...
6) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped by his villainous and miserly uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes with the help of Jacobite fugitive Alan Breck and becomes involved in the struggle of Scottish Highlanders against English rule.
Author
Series
David Slaton novels volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Wives of King David volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Daughter of King Saul, Michal lives a life of privilege - but one that is haunted by her father's unpredictable moods and competition from her beautiful older sister.
Author
Series
Wives of King David volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Abigail takes a leap of faith and joins David's wandering tribe. When he insists on marrying other women, how can she share his love?
Author
Series
Wives of King David volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps--and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear. Can she find forgiveness at the feet of the Almighty? Or has her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During a visit to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field, cousins Mike and Kate investigate why someone has been tampering with the famous ivy vines growing on the outfield walls. Includes historical note.
13) Fall from grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
International bestselling author Tim Weaver returns with his next David Raker mystery, a high-stakes search for a recently retired detective who vanishes from his own home.
14) Hunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his friend is dead. An MI5 agent contacts Shelley and arranges a meeting. All the signs point to murder, and the agent believes this is part of something much bigger. The only way Shelley can discover the truth is to put himself on the streets, and into the same danger that got his friend killed.
15) Deadly dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the partially-clothed body of a teenage girl in the heart of Bristol's red light district indicates a tragic yet familiar scenario. But this marks the start of a baffling murder investigation where nothing is as it first appears ... Fourteen-year-old Melanie Cooke told her mother she was visiting a school friend. Who was she really going to meet? Detective Inspector David Vogel is led towards three very different principal protagonists,...
16) Assassin's run
Author
Series
David Slaton novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a Russian oligarch is killed by a single bullet on his yacht off the Isle of Capri, Russian intelligence sources speculate that a legendary Israeli assassin, long thought dead, might be responsible. However, David Slaton, the assassin in question, is innocent. Realizing the only way to clear his name is to find out who's truly responsible, he travels to Capri. While he searches, a web of disparate events unfolds across the Middle East. Three...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The last thing fugitive crime writer David Mitre expects as he's cruising along an Amsterdam canal is to be the focus of a bizarre murder attempt ... But why is he being targeted? He hasn't even done anything wrong - recently. After the would-be assassin tries again, David is rescued by Delia Delacorte, the FBI Special Agent he locked horns with in Cyprus. In return, Delia wants his help to prevent the theft of a priceless painting from the Rijksmuseum....
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