Jansma, Kristopher.
Summary: From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's irresistible narrator will be inspired and haunted by the success of his greatest friend and rival in writing, the eccentric and brilliantly talented Julian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A young reporter's life in the 1950's. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Summary: Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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Summary: Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints leads to the tragic spot. "The Bride in the Tide," as the London press gleefully dubs her, has the PCU stumped. Why wouldn't the killer simply dump her body in the river--as so many do? Arthur Bryant wonders if the answer lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWReich, Christopher.
Summary: Devlin Judge, an American lawyer in Europe as part of the International Military Tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. Haunted by his own demons, Judge has a secret agenda-- to find the Nazi responsible for his brother's death. Determined to avenge his brother and bring his killer to justice, Judge is plunged into pursuit, menaced at every turn by forces determined to keep him from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Summary: "Fans of Dan Simmons' THE TERROR will love ARARAT, the thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry. When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah's Ark. But when a team of scholars, archaeologists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Moore introduces Samuel Hunter, a young man who's running from his past while being tormented by an ancient Crow God with a talent for mischief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: "Kira Navarez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life, his face everywhere on the TV news, and a violent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: Christopher Buckley provides hilarious insight on what could happen if the president were annoyed by the Senate for refusing one too many Supreme Court nominees. The answer? He would respond by nominating America's most popular TV judge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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Summary: This novel casts Moore's view askance on a familiar subject and twists it into something wholly original. Famed painter Vincent van Gogh lies dead, an apparent suicide victim. Two of his painterly colleagues are not convinced that the artist truly offed himself, though, so they embark on a quest to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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Summary: In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan, Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: When a bomb explodes in the office of London's most unusual police unit, it claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant. As his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity, he finds his investigation taking him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003
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Summary: A woman is found drowned in her basement--with nary a drop of water to explain the crime. Senior-citizen detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2005
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Summary: A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops start suspecting Tommy of being a local bloodsucking serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: The odd couple of detection--the brilliant but cranky Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit - return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing right to the end. This time the detectives are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding--and a killer no human hand may be able to stop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2008
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Summary: San Francisco. Summer, 1947. An enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business. A suspicious flying object has been spotted up the Pacific coast in Washington State near Mount Rainer, followed by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: ""You bitch, you killed me. You suck!" Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody--the woman of his dreams--is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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Summary: Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. Join Dragon Rider--and fan favorite--Murtagh and his dragon as they confront a perilous new enemy! The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2005
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Summary: In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2004