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Series
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The call of the wild: The adventures of an unusual dog, part Saint Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Whtie Fang: The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man. The sea wolf: A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Features the resourceful and ever-gallant gunslinger-turned-adventurer Francis Xavier Gordonknown to his Middle Eastern friends and enemies as El Borak ("the Swift") along with other exotic adventure stories set in desert and mountain landscapes.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
For everyone who loves Jane Austen. The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth! In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal, but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds. A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled...
7) In our time
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Offers fifteen vignettes concerning the conflicts, situations, problems, and personalities characteristic of society in Hemingway's day.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling -- a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to...
11) Aerie
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Series
Language
English
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Kiron and his friends, established in a desert cliff dwelling seemingly made for dragons, must not only bring order to the new society, but be on guard against Magi who might try to achieve conquest surreptitiously after failing to win with violence.
12) The red pyramid
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion...
16) The tombs
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Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
18) Novels & stories
Author
Series
Library of America volume 6
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A collection of London's stories about dogs.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a...
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Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
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