Paul Michael
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He held her dead body in his arms. But he cannot remember it. Ever since, Sean has been tormented by this event, reliving his wife's death over and over again, but experiencing something different every time, waiting for some piece to neatly fit. Nearly two decades later, Sean is awarded the coveted Memory Palace for winning a sadistic contest put on by his highly eccentric billionaire boss, Mr....
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
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Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle--
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English
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Description
A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier...
10) The take
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Series
Simon Riske novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Simon Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar watch off the wrist of a crooked Russian oligarch. Riske has maintained his quiet life by avoiding big, messy jobs; until now. A gangster by the name of Tino Coluzzi...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death. Garfield's short time in office was devoted to cleaning up the corruption that was rife in a country still reeling from the Civil War. However, everything changed when Garfield was shot in the back by a disgruntled office worker. While the president's health slowly declined, a power struggle erupted over control of the administration, and...
12) Lottery
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Language
English
Description
"A funny, poignant, and wise novel about a very rich underdog who shows everyone just how little his IQ says about his smarts"--From publisher's web site.
13) Shoot 'em up
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal criminal mastermind Mr. Hertz and his gang of henchmen do not...
14) Spy game
Language
English
Description
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
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Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
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Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt.
"Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post
James Abram...
"Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post
James Abram...
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Series
Babylon rising volume 2
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English
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Field archaeologist Michael Murphy attempts the recovery of what may prove conclusively to be Noah's Ark, but dark forces are against him.
Author
Series
Jonathan Ransom novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The most riveting novel yet in Reich's "New York Times"-bestselling series. 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 must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife--an enigmatic and lethal spy who plays by her own rules.
20) Fearless: the undaunted courage and ultimate sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six operator Adam Brown
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.