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Angel of vengeance [text (large print)] / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.; Child, Lincoln,author.;: "A desperate bargain is broken ... Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life - but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set ... Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help-for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move ... and awaiting his own chance to strike. A vengeful angel will not be deterred ... Meanwhile, as Pendergast focuses on saving the unstable Constance in her fanatical quest for vengeance, she strikes out on her own: to rescue her beloved siblings from a tragic fate and take savage retribution on Leng. But Leng is one step ahead and has a surprise for them all ... "--; Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character); Brothers; Revenge; Serial murderers; Sisters;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The angels' share / by Crosby, Ellen,1953-author.;: "Ellen Crosby pours up another corking mystery with The Angels' Share, an intriguing blend of secret societies, Prohibition bootleg wine, and potentially scandalous documents hidden by the Founding Fathers, all of which yield a vintage murder. When Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune, she doesn't expect the festive occasion to end in death. During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year old family patriarch, invites Lucie to his fabulous wine cellar where he offers to pay any price for a cache of 200-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle, a Prohibition bootlegger, discovered hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. Lucie knows nothing about the valuable wine, believing her late father, a notorious gambler and spendthrift, probably sold or drank it. By the end of the party Lucie and her fiancé, winemaker Quinn Santori, discover Prescott's body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer? As Lucie searches for the lost Madeira, which she believes links Prescott's death to a cryptic letter her father owned, she learns about Prescott's affiliation with the Freemasons. More investigating hints at a mysterious vault supposedly containing documents hidden by the Founding Fathers and a possible tie to William Shakespeare. If Lucie finds the long-lost documents, the explosive revelations could change history. But will she uncover a three hundred-year-old secret before a determined killer finds her?"--; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Freemasons; Montgomery, Lucie (Fictitious character); Murder; Wine and wine making;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Bread of angels / by Smith, Patti,author.;: Includes bibliographical references."A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with tortoises and turns pennies into gold. The most intimate of Smith's suite of memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us from her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and records such as Horses and Easter, Dancing Barefoot and Because the Night. Then she leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a mystical life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She creates a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith loses those around her, grief, loss, and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again. The one constant in a life driven by artistic fire and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live"--; Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Smith, Patti.; Poets, American; Rock musicians; Women rock musicians;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The white angel : a mystery / by Gray, John,1946-author.;: "Vancouver is in an uproar over the death by gunshot of a Scottish nanny, Janet Stewart. An almost deliberately ham-handed police investigation has Constable Hook suspecting a cover-up. The powerful United Council of Scottish Societies is demanding an inquiry. The killing has become a political issue with an election not far away. The city is buzzing with rumours. Miss Stewart's fellow nannies have accused the Chinese houseboy of murder, capitalizing on a wave of anti-Chinese propaganda led by the Asian Exclusion League and enthusiastically supported by the sensational press--not to mention the Ku Klux Klan, which has taken up residence in upperclass Shaughnessy. The White Angel is a work of fiction inspired by the cold case of Janet Smith, who, on July 26, 1924, was found dead in her employer's posh Shaughnessy Heights mansion. A dubious investigation led to the even more dubious conclusion that Smith died by suicide. After a public outcry, the case was re-examined and it was decided that Smith was in fact murdered; but no one was ever convicted, though suspects abounded--from an infatuated Chinese houseboy to a drug-smuggling ring, devil-worshippers from the United States, or perhaps even the Prince of Wales. For Vancouver, the killing created a situation analogous to lifting a large flat rock to expose the creatures hiding underneath. An exploration of true crime through a literary lens, The White Angel draws an artful portrait of Vancouver in 1924 in all its opium-hazed, smog-choked, rain-soaked glory--accurate, insightful and darkly droll."--; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Smith, Janet, -1924,; Murder; Nannies;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Fodor's Los Angeles. by Bell, Carrie,author.; Fodor's Travel (Firm),publisher.;: Subjects: Guidebooks.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
A country you can leave / by Angel-Ajani, Asale,author.;: 'A Country You Can Leave' is a stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert. Book Club. #diversity.; Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Poor; Racially mixed people; Russians;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Charlie's angels [videorecording] / by Banks, Elizabeth,1974-film director,actor.; Belgrad, Doug,film producer.; Cantillon, Elizabeth,film producer.; Claflin, Sam,1986-actor.; Handleman, Max,film producer.; Scott, Naomi,1993-actor.; Stewart, Kristen,1990-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;: Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, Sam Claflin, Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska, Noah Centineo, Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, Nat Faxon.Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie's Angels take flight. In Banks's bold vision, the Angels are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world's smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for action/violence, language and some suggestive material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.; Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Women detectives;; For private home use only.; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
River of fallen angels / by Rowland, Laura Joh,author.;: While investigating the murder of a woman whose torso has been found, crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is pitted against a bitter enemy who is hell-bent on discovering what she and her close-knit band of comrades know about the killer, threatening both her marriage and her friendships.; Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Women photographers; Women private investigators;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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