Harry
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Description
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in [the South Bronx] known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a [4:00] a.m. call about the fatal knifing of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to help were murdered and jammed in a food cellar. By the time...
Author
Series
Cat Brules westerns volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Rich with vivid historical detail and thrilling adventures, The Legend of the Painted Horse is the unforgettable conclusion to the epic trilogy of mountain man, outlaw, and Indian scout Cat Brules. The novel evokes one man's struggle to bring together the old and new worlds and to carve a place in American history for himself--and for his beloved grandfather.
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English
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"A new master mystery writer emerges."-- Forbes Magazine One cryptic clue leads a desperate man into a labyrinthine puzzle of murder in the electrifying new novel from national bestselling author Harry Dolan. There's a killer, and he wears a crooked hat. Private investigator Jack Pellum has spent two years searching for the man who he believes murdered his wife--a man he last saw wearing a peacoat and a fedora. Months of posting fliers and combing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Harry Turtledove has become one of the most popular authors in SF today, with such bestsellers as The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, the Worldwar series, and The Great War: American Front. Widely hailed as the master of "alternate history" tales, he weaves his deep understanding of human history together with strong storytelling, a fantastic imagination, and a confident voice. Now Turtledove returns to the story of a World War in a world where...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-first century, Germany's Third Reich continues to thrive after its victory in World War II-keeping most of Europe and North America under its heel. But within the heart of the Nazi regime, a secret lives. Under a perfect Aryan facade, Jews survive-living their lives, raising their families, and trying to avoid discovery.
Author
Series
Hammer and the cross volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Powerful bishops and corrupt black-robed priests rule over the warring kings of British Isles. The Vikings of Scandinavia carrying the Hammer of Thor as their emblem collide with the Church launching an all-out war between the Hammer and the Cross.
Author
Series
Hammer and the cross volume 2
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies.
Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring Shef down, no matter what the cost. To defeat Shef, they will go to extraordinary lengths to find the sacred spear of Christ--and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire.
Driven...
Author
Series
War that came early volume 4
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels--and so does a different World War II. In Turtledove's mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history.
20) Prehistoric life
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English
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Explore the origins of life on earth, from the first algae to the first humans; why life began in the sea, not on land; why dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years and then disappeared; and how mammals--and then humans--took over.
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