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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent.
2) The burning
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Series
Clay Edison novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves....
3) Burning wild
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Series
Leopard people volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Bred for his leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni lives in an emotional vacuum after a tragic twist of fate left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of the enigmatic young Emma Reynolds whom he hires as his son's nanny, Jake becomes inflamed by a passion that he has never fathomed.
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Trials of Apollo volume 3
Language
English
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The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
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Divided we fall trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
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Series
Peter Ash novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but the trip isnt quite the balm hed hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a grizzly, long thought to have vanished from this part of the country. In a fight of man against bear, Peter doesnt favor his odds, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearby sapling. There, he finds something...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
The intention behind the Indonesian Mega Rice Project was a good one: by demolishing millions of acres of peat swamp forest, land could be cleared to cultivate much-needed grain. But the project unleashed a cascade of interlocking social and ecological catastrophes - a situation considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters on the planet. This program follows the efforts of agronomist Suwido Limin to protect his peat swamp forest research...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a ... collection of nonfiction--funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient--which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty...
10) Burning season
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day--and is proud to carry on her retired father's legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat. . . All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry 'clients.' And for a while she's on fire from the...
11) Burning roses
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this dark fairy tale remix, a wolf-weary Red Riding Hood and a middle-aged Hou Yi the Archer join forces when deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything the pair have grown to love.
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme leads his team--NYPD detective Amelia Sachs, officer Ron Pulaski, and FBI agent Fred Dellray--to find and stop a killer who uses electricity as modus operandi. Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare. When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump 'is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years.' In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our...
16) Burning Bodhi
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died. Old girlfriends, boyfriends, new lovers, parents… The reunion stirs up feelings of love, longing and regret, intertwined with the novelty of forgiveness, mortality and gratitude. A Big Chill for a new generation.
17) Burning Cars
Pub. Date
[2012], c2007
Language
English
Description
Too many people die when cars and bushfires collide. In this video clip, learn what science is only now investigating about the physics and chemistry of what happens inside a car as a firefront passes over and hear from experts attempting to engineer a car that improves the chances of survival if this happens.
18) Burning Bright
Pub. Date
[2012], c1959
Language
English
Description
Joe Saul, a veteran circus performer is slowly being destroyed by the realization that he will die without having fathered a child. In an act of extraordinary sacrifice and compassion, his wife, Mordeen, takes desperate measures to save him. Steinbeck's classic play is brilliantly acted by a fantastic cast, led by four-time Emmy winner Colleen Dewhurst (Murphy Brown, Anne of Green Gables) and Tony winner Myron McCormick (South Pacific).
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
More than 5,000 houses have been destroyed by bushfire over the last 30 years. This video clip takes a close look at this problem in Australia, where there are more than half-million houses near large areas of bushland. Meet Justin Leonard. He's surveyed the aftermath of every major bushfire in Australia since the Canberra firestorm of 2003. He shares what he's learned and how houses in dangerous areas can be built differently.
20) The burning tide
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Series
Spirit animals. Fall of the beasts volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Working in separate worlds to stop the awakening. Wyrm, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan find support in a strange group of allies but will have to work quickly to locate an ancient trap that could bring about the end of the war.
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