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Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
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The celebrated pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski was the rave of Paris, London, and New York audiences in the early twentieth century, with annual concert tours across the continents. But during World War I, Paderewski set music aside and turned to politics, becoming an eloquent spokesman for the country of his birth, Poland, then occupied by the empires of Russia, Germany, and Austria. Through his fame as a musician, Paderewski gained access to the top...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom was first published in 1997. It is a memoir that has also been adapted into a television movie of the same name. In the year 2000, the book was on the top of the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers list. Later in the year, Mitch Albom narrated the story and produced an unabridged audio book himself
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From the moment she hears this violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is no ordinary violin. It's known as "Lev's Violin" and it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. This is the beginning of a beguiling journey whose end...
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BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 DVD (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Best of Friends: In 1924, George Bernard Shaw was introduced to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, England. Along with their mutual friend, Sydney Cockerell, director of Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the trio enjoyed twenty-five years of letters, literary debate and laughter. (82 min.) Eagle in a cage: A school-teacher-turned-governor of a small island finds greatness thrust upon him when that island,...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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423 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote...
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Roman citizen Marcus Didius Falco welcomes an investigation commissioned by the emperor into treason after Helena Justina, a beauty of privilege, breaks his heart, but finds more trouble than expected.
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Avalon series volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
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1st American ed.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 24
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xv, 394 p. : maps, geneal. table ; 24 cm.
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English
14) Corpus delicti
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
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278 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 17
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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300 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Now married to his beloved Helena Justina, Marcus Didius Falco is hired to take on a murder investigation that will require him and Helena to travel to Olympia, Greece, to uncover the truth about a series of disappearances.
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