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The Russian [sound recording] / by Coes, Ben,author.; Fliakos, Ari,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Ari Fliakos."As the brutal Russian mafia becomes the most powerful and deadly criminal enterprise in the U.S., it's up to covert operative Rob Tacoma to fight back ... Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the U.S. and law enforcement has been unable to stem the tide. When a powerful Russian mob family declares war by publicly executing two high-profile American politicians, the messageis unmistakable-opposition will be met with overwhelming deadly force. With no other viable options, the President creates a clandestine assassinations team to find and eliminate the unreachable men running this deadly criminal operation.--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Intelligence officers; Secret service; Assassins; Russian American criminals; Organized crime; Murder;
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Moriarty / by Horowitz, Anthony,1955-author.;
Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Murder; Police; Private investigators;
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The golden girls. [videorecording] / by Arthur, Beatrice.; Getty, Estelle.; McClanahan, Rue.; White, Betty,1922-; ABC Studios.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Video (Firm);
Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty.The girls return for another side-splitting season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning comedy. Season five guest stars include Dick VanDyke.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, dual-layer format; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereophonic.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Divorced women; Female friendship; Older women; Roommates; Widows;
For private home use only.
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Archangel's sun / by Singh, Nalini,1977-;
The Archangel of Death and the Archangel of Disease may be gone but their legacy of evil lives on--especially in Africa, where the shambling, rotting creatures called the reborn have gained a glimmer of vicious intelligence. It is up to Titus, archangel of this vast continent, to stop the reborn from spreading across the world. Titus can't do it alone, but of the surviving powerful angels and archangels, large numbers are wounded, while the rest are fighting a surge of murderous vampires. There is no one left... but the Hummingbird. Old, powerful, her mind long a broken kaleidoscope. Now, she must stand at Titus's side against a tide of death upon a discovery more chilling than any other. For the Archangel of Disease has left them one last terrible gift...
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Angels; Archangels; Good and evil;
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The tiger's nest / by Trueit, Trudi Strain.;
On an island nation in the Indian Ocean, the explorers venture through a vast underwater world and take part in a friendly robotics competition. But the tides of good fortune change quickly. Suddenly, Team Cousteau jumps into action to rescue a faculty member from the brink of death. Meanwhile, the team follows the Cruz's mother's clues to a magnificent tomb and center of spirituality precariously perched on the side of a cliff. There, Cruz is confronted by a familiar foe who's determined to stop him from completing his most important mission of all: retrieving the final pieces of his mother's cipher. In this life-or-death showdown, Cruz witnesses the ultimate sacrifice and uncovers a hidden message that makes him question his own mortality.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Code and cipher stories.; Explorers; Voyages and travels; Research vessels; Robotics;
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All the single ladies [sound recording] / by Frank, Dorothea Benton.; Miles, Robin,narrator.;
Read by Robin Miles.In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, she once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle-aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for themselves? Will they ever be able to afford to retire?Three amazing middle-aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. A plan is conceived and unfurls with each turn of the tide during one sweltering summer on the Isle of Palms. Without ever fully realizing how close they were to the edge, they finally triumph amid laughter and maybe even newfound love.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Interpersonal relations; Women;
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Tidelands / by Gregory, Philippa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Midsummer's Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands--the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women and crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she's leading disaster into the heart of her life.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; Civil war; Witches; Families;
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Storming Juno [videorecording] / by Adair, Alden.; Cyr, Craig.; Dafoe, Drew.; Gagosz, Christopher.; Muir, Benjamin.; Pettitt, James.; Rella, Anthony.; Ritchie, Joshua.; Wolochatiuk, Tim.; Entertainment One (Firm);
Director of photography, Marcus Elliot ; composer, James Mark Stewart ; edited by John Whitcher.Benjamin Muir, Alden Adair, Craig Cyr, Drew Dafoe, James Pettitt, Anthony Rella, Joshua Ritchie.Discover the crucial role the Canadian military played in one of the most decisive battles of World War II as director Tim Wolochatiuk details the battle at Juno beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy. The date: June, 6th, 1944. The mission: Operation Overlord. Never before in history had a seaborne invasion of this magnitude been attempted. As 160,000 Allied soldiers made their way across the English Channel on a mission to penetrate "Fortress Europe," Canadian forces targeted Juno Beach. Incredibly, they would push deeper into France than any other Allied force. Though victory came at a high price, the sacrifices made by those brave Canadian soldiers during that fateful mission played a crucial role in shifting the tide in favor of the Allies, and heralding the downfall of a ruthless tyrant.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Division, 3rd; Great Britain. Army. Armoured Division, 79th; Battlefields; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Operation Overlord.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2011., Entertainment One,
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The night portrait : a novel of World War II and Da Vinci's Italy / by Morelli, Laura,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi leader, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back. Two women, separated by 500 years, are swept up in the tide of history as one painting stands at the center of their quests for their own destinies"--Front cover flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.; Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section; World War, 1939-1945;
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The Blue Hour [electronic resource] : by Hawkins, Paula.aut; cloudLibrary;
The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . . A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Suspense; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Doubleday Canada,
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