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20231111
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"Jane Hastings was just nine years old when she declared she would become an architect. A child of Depression-era Seattle, Jane worked her way through college in the aftermath of World War II and was among the first women licensed to practice architecture in the state of Washington. Throughout her award-winning career, she designed more than 500 projects and achieved many "firsts" as a leader in the American Institute of Architects, both locally and...
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Dr. Bannerman vet mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
20240514
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Veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman and his sniffer dog, Pippin, are back to solve a mystery involving the poisoning of a team of sled huskies, a floatplane crash, and a murder. A locked room mystery that will keep you guessing right up until the end!
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2024.
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"From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow...
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Secret staircase novels volume 3
Pub. Date
20240319
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In heroine Tempest Raj, modern-day queen of the locked room mystery Gigi Pandian has created a brilliant homage to the greats of classic detective fiction.
93) The crow
Pub. Date
[2020]
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2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Featuring Brandon Lee in his final performance, this is the tale of young musician Eric Draven (Lee) who, along with his fiancee, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is raised from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes.
96) A refiner's fire
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2024.
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"Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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xv, 245 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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"A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. But how did he become such an effective leader?...
Pub. Date
2024
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1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The film follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on a spontaneous road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of incompetent criminals along the way.
99) Underdog (DVD)
Pub. Date
2024
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1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Doug Butler is a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer with an offbeat passion for dog mushing. A local folk hero, Doug's ease with cows, dogs, and people is a joy to behold. And when he trains his team of mutts on the family farm with a dream to compete at the world championships in Alaska, his teenage exuberance seems to erase the tired lines on his sixty-five-year-old face.
100) Fire with fire
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Pub. Date
2023.
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314 pages ; 25 cm
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"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been...
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