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82) Winchester
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
Author
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Shedding new light on the iconic gunfight that made Wyatt Earp a legend, this wildly fascinating biography of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, the common-law wife of the most famous lawman of the Old West, reveals how this aspiring actress and dancer ended up in Tombstone, Arizona.
84) Sarah's list
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sarah Burke and new cop Zivko 'Bogey' Boganicevic are sent to an incident at Fairweather Farms senior living center in Tucson. The center's van has suddenly been chased at reckless speed by a carload of bandits firing high-powered rifles, and crashed into its own garage. Arriving at the scene, Sarah makes a grisly discovery: the driver, Enrique Lopez, was shot in the head during the chase. Why was a kindly man, dedicated to looking after...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us a biography of an idea: gratitude, as a compelling human instinct and a global concept, more than just a mere holiday. Spanning centuries, We Gather Together is anchored amid the strife of the Civil War, and driven by the fascinating story of Sarah Josepha Hale, a widowed mother with no formal schooling who became one of the 19th century's most influential...
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sarah E. Goode was one of the first African-American women to get a US patent. Working in her furniture store, she recognized a need for a multi-use bed and through hard work, ingenuity, and determination, invented her unique cupboard bed. She built more than a piece of furniture. She built a life far away from slavery, a life where her sweet dreams could come true."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived--and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning. On paper, Sarah Levy's life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself. Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Frank Malloy investigates after a wealthy businessman is murdered. The reason is that, like Malloy, the man has a deaf child, and she attends a rival school for the deaf. Soon, Malloy suspects that the killer may be affiliated with his son's school.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Ransome was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein's network when she was 22, during her first months in Manhattan, and in America. Her desire to network in hopes of getting into the Fashion Institute of Technology were destroyed overnight and Sarah found herself imprisoned by a web of co-conspirators on an island ... after enduring unimaginable trauma, Sarah bravely pulls back the curtain on a hell that only those who entered it can truly testify...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Forbes, an anthropology student, stumbled upon a museum dedicated to sex she hesitated to apply for a job. Twelve years later she proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex. Here she invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. She asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did: when it comes to sex, what is good,...
92) Scaredy cat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Secondhand store owner Sarah Grayson and her affectionate rescue cat, Elvis, will scare up a few leads to find a killer in the newest installment of this series. After a long, cold, and snowy winter, it seems as though spring may be arriving early in Maine. Sarah Grayson is busy at her store, Second Chance, and she's looking forward to an afternoon break from the hustle and bustle, tagging along to the North Harbor Spring House Tour with her friend...
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Author and blogger shares the story of her battle with mental health, inviting you to cultivate beauty even in dark seasons and empowering you to live as an agent of God's hope and goodness amidst suffering--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people-including herself-are obsessed with horses. It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America-even more than when they were the only means of transportation-and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Midwife Sarah Brandt is summoned to examine the teenage daughter of the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill. When pregnancy is confirmed, the young woman denies that any man ever hurt her. Sarah enlists the help of her friend Sergeant Frank Molloy to discover who is responsible. The search becomes more urgent when a minister falls dead during a service, poisoned by cyanide-laced wine in his chalice.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1884, Sarah Winchester began building a large mansion in Santa Clara County, California. Under Sarah's direction, the house rose to be seven stories high and filled with mysterious features, including stairs that lead to nowhere and windows that look into other interior rooms. The house is more than just oddly designed, however: Many people believe that it is haunted. What made the heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, an independent woman...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.
Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. Few know that he had an accomplice who enabled his plundering and helped...
99) Undercover kitty
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, can always be found at a charming secondhand shop in the village of North Harbor, Maine. Despite the small-town setting, the daring duo often find themselves wrapped up in murder, but luckily they have help--a quirky group of senior citizens runs an amateur detective agency called Charlotte's Angels out of the store. The Angels are hired to look into who is sabotaging cat shows in the state, and they decide...
100) The killing storm
Author
Series
Sarah Armstrong series volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a four-year-old child's abduction under circumstances that place his mother under suspicion, Houston Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong investigates a series of prize cattle killings that are linked by a mysterious historical symbol branded onto each of the slaughtered animals.
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