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(0)Michael Prichard
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English
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An unmarried by mathematically precise Englishman dismisses his valet for heating his shaving water two degrees cooler than usual. He hires a French valet to replace him and the two of them set off to travel around the world in eighty days - a supposedly possible feat, now that the Indian railways have been built. If they succeed they will win a fortune off the other members of the Reform Club.
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English
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Though Zane Grey's body of work in the Western genre reveals a prodigious imagination, many of his stories had a strong historical grounding, based in part on the lives and experiences of Grey's own ancestors. The Last Trail, the final entry in Grey's Ohio River Trilogy, expertly combines elements of romance and adventure in a gripping tale that pits protagonist Jonathan Zane against several nefarious rivals.
4) Cuba
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Series
Jake Grafton volume 7
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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As Fidel Castro lies dying in Cuba, the U.S. awaits the unavoidable power struggle, but unbeknownst to everyone, the President of the United States has hidden secret weapons on Cuba's Guantanemo Bay, and when those weapons are discovered by Cuban factions, only Admiral Grafton can save America from total annihilation.
5) Deep six
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 7
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English
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Dirk Pitt is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the president of the United States for their own purposes through mind control.
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Series
Covert-One volume 2
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English
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Medical researcher and sometime spy, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, and two colleagues face a plot to unleash a deadly disease on an unsuspecting populace.
8) Fer-de-lance
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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A case of multiple murder sends super sleuth Nero Wolfe and his quick-witted legman Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they soon discover that they may be getting too close to a killer when someone sends them a fer-de-lance, one of the world's most poisonous snakes, as a deadly "gift."
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
℗2014.
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English
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Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. The ordeal of these men--who found themselves tested by barbarism, murder, starvation, death, dehydration, and hostile tribes...
10) Too many women
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2007], p1995
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English
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Archie Goodwin goes to work on Wall Stret when corpulent sleuth Nero Wolfe takes on a ruthless killer involved in two hit-and-run "accidents."
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2007], p1995
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English
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Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment, and he finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings.
13) Death of a doxy
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
2010
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English
Description
Detective genius Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, are private investigators based in New York. With Wolfe's unmatchable wits and Archie's tireless legwork, no mystery is unsolvable. In this installment, Wolfe must prove the innocence of colleague Orrie Cather who is being charged with the murder of Isabel Kerr. As Archie deals with a colorful cast of characters, including Isabel's sister, brother-in-law, and benefactor, Wolfe uses mathematics...
14) Without remorse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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John Kelly befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When her past reaches out to her in a horrifying way, he vows revenge. But the Pentagon also has plans for John Kelly.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater.
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English
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A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
