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1) Tripwire
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Jack Reacher novels volume 3
Description
Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions about him. Determined to keep out of trouble, Reacher conceals his identity. But when he finds Costello dead with his fingertips sliced off, he realizes it is time to move on - and move on fast. Yet two questions worry him: who was Costello's employer, the mysterious Mrs Jacobs? And why is she determined to find Reacher?
2) Great circle
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
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In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
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London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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"In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I. 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie's husband Francis has not come home. Francis is presumed...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was once dubbed Die Weisse Hexe--The White Witch--and lauded...
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Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. She recognizes the danger, but her search for the truth is the only thing that matters.
Willy knows she can't proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard, who knows the mysterious land well. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives. What she couldn't
...10) Spy runner
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It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake's mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake's dad, who went missing in...
12) Gingersnap
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It's 1944, W.W. II is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little blue recipe book with her name and an address for a bakery. When Jayna learns that Rob is missing in action, she's devastated. Along with...
13) La caja azul
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"No sé cómo comenzar a contaros esta historia, la de la caja azul. Mi madre tenía una vida secreta que solo la conocían mi abuela y tía Teresa, nadie más en la familia. Durante años buscaron a mi abuelo Antonio, padre, marido y hermano, soldado del ejército Republicano desaparecido en combate en la Batalla del Ebro. Tan secreta fue esta búsqueda que solo un par de días antes de morir mi madre se atrevió a compartirlo conmigo, a...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
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Josh Thurlow novels volume 2
Pub. Date
p2005
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11 sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captain Josh Thurlow teams up with PT Boat Commander to find an ambassador's son missing in the jungles of the Solomons.
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Never girls. Finding Tinker Bell volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"In the third book in the new early chapter book series Finding Tinker Bell, the Never Girls' quest takes them to the Lost Coast, a mysterious beach that is strangely familiar. Can the Never Girls, Silvermist, Fawn, Rosetta, and Iridessa escape the Lost Coast and find their friend?"--
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Series
Never girls. Finding Tinker Bell volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"In the second book in the new Finding Tinker Bell series, The Never Girls' quest takes them to a mysterious shadow island. Can they find Tink without putting the rest of their fairy friends in danger?"--
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