Catalog Search Results
101) Wallander: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kenneth Branagh stars as the flawed but deeply human detective, Kurt Wallander. Wallander must battle his own demons as he works to solve a series of terrifying murders in the seaside town of Ystad in southern Sweden. When a politician is brutally murdered with an axe, Wallander investigates the relationship between a series of similar murders. His investigation into the link between a heart attack victim and the murder of a cab driver by two teenage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love. London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip-himself a pilot-witness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London. Weeks later, Phillip's Sunderland is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated. Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s. As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan recession, the...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Season five begins with two lives hanging in the balance, officers Sam Swarek and Chloe Price have been shot in the line of duty. But life at 15 Division must go on. Our officers have sworn an oath to serve and protect, no matter the consequences. But as the shell-shocked officers struggle to pull the pieces of their lives back together, they can¿́¿t help but wonder: Will things ever work out the way they¿́¿re supposed to?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pet Mystery Week brings brisk business to Penelope's Rhode Island bookshop, but a real mystery comes barking at her door when a lost dog turns up in a panic. Pen and her son Spencer follow the furry fugitive to a wooded area where the dog's owner lies unconscious. Mrs. Cunningham is a warm-hearted widow who volunteers at the animal shelter and runs Buy the Book's pet lovers book club. Why would anyone shoot such a sweet soul? The police believe...
Author
Series
Kate Rees novels volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
A Kate Rees WWII Novel volume Book 2
Kate Rees WWII novel volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
A Kate Rees WWII Novel volume Book 2
Kate Rees WWII novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war. October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in...
107) Death in the tunnel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide seems to be the answer, even though no reason can be found. Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light...
Author
Series
Haley Randolph mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haley Randolph isn't exactly a model sales clerk at Holt's Department Store. But when the corporate office acquires a high-end boutique chain and extends a juicy discount to employees, the fashionista will do anything--maybe even a little hard work--to keep the part-time gig and clinch a Mystique handbag, the season's absolute must-have, at a heart-stopping price. With the extra duties she's taking on, Haley's positioning herself to be Employee of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When a washed up Hollywood cowboy-turned-circus rodeo actor is shot dead in the midst of his performance at a New York sports-palace, in front of thousands of onlookers, it seems obvious that someone would have seen the perpetrator of the crime--or at the very least, recovered the gun. But when the ensuing investigation fails to turn up any evidence, even after the newsreels made in the moment are reviewed, the net of suspicion widens across the...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly-entertaining history of the World Series, based on years of archival research and interviews with hundreds of players and managers, filled with never-before-heard details of the most exciting and fascinating tales from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is baseball's greatest stage. From Babe Ruth's famous called shot, to Jackie Robinson stealing...
111) Impostor syndrome
Author
Series
Arcadia Project volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the third book of the Nebula Award-nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called "exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted," Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists--with the fate of the worlds in the balance. Three months ago, a rift between agents in London and Los Angeles tore the Arcadia Project apart. With both fey Courts split down the middle--half supporting London, half LA--London...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 'Don't Drop the Mic,' Bishop Jakes speaks to readers about communication and how the ways we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday ministries. He helps readers understand: why the way we speak and the words we use matter; how speaking well, no matter your topic or audience, improves your chances of getting the result you want; how to craft your message, whether it's a simple email or a speech under the spotlights, to connect...
113) Bittersweet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This Thanksgiving, be grateful for China Bayles who teams up with an old friend to solve a complex case of theft and murder in a South Texas ranching community. It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. She's also looking forward to catching up with...
114) The Cairo affair
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband...
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allie Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind about that. He's six-foot-plus of tall, dark, and charming-the kind of guy who could make a girl throw caution to the wind . . . or the kind of guy who could break her heart. Blake Dawson hopes he can make Lucky Penny Ranch finally live up to its...
117) The forgotten road
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A man on an inspirational pilgrimage across Route 66 to find his way back to himself"--
118) Imperfect justice
Author
Series
Hidden justice novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The police say the woman was a murderer. Emilie Wesley knows they can't be talking about her client. but she can't prove it. To the world it seems obvious: Kaylene Turner snapped and killed her daughter and then was shot by police. However, attorney Emilie Wesley knows a different story. Kaylene was a nurturer at heart looking for a way out of a controlling, abusive marriage. Kaylene's death shakes Emilie's world and her belief that she can make a...
119) The capital
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brussels. A panorama of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. No wonder the E.U. Commission is keen to improve its image. The Capital is a sharp satire, a crime story, a comedy of manner, a philosophical essay - the major European novel, published on the eve of Brexit, at its heart the most powerful pro-European message: no-one should forget the circumstances that gave rise to the European project in the first place. As the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Multi-media entertainment mogul Reba McEntire has become a household name through her successful career spanning across music, television, film, theater, and retail. The Country Music Hall of Fame inductee has won sixteen ACM's, fifteen AMA's, nine People's Choice Awards, six CMA's, three Grammy Awards, a GMA Dove Award, and is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient. She has had 35 No. one singles and sold over 56 million albums. This is her latest studio...