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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, it was the information network that bound far-flung...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendants of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
With this book, the reader will become a student of Bob Proctor's, as he teaches lessons and presents jewels of wisdom on living an extraordinary life. Readers will marvel at Proctor's miraculous way of disseminating his decades of business wisdom into easy-to-understand parables, and learn lessons on what our creative faculties are and how to use them, why we need to unlearn most of the false beliefs we've been indoctrinated with our whole lives,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him.
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Language
English
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"Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000-a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill-into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn's priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he'll need to negotiate...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm face their first case without Granny Relda's help when the future gets mixed up with the past in Ferryport Landing, and because some of the future does not look bright, Puck helps them try to make some changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often--two hundred times more often than a dog? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of love stories, a heartfelt romance about a widower sheriff and divorced schoolteacher searching for a second chance at love--only to be threatened by long-held secrets of their small town.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah...
10) Archie goes home
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Archie Goodwin's aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where the president of Farmer's State Bank and Trust, an elderly widower, has died in an apparent suicide. But Archie's aunt has expressed nagging suspicions--which only grow stronger when someone takes a shot at a local reporter who wrote about the case. It wouldn't be a small town without some gossip,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread, and the Headless Horseman wishes everyone would stop drooling over his pumpkin head.
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. Panzer spies state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York, sitting in the box seats. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet -- every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead...
13) Max the Brave
Author
Series
Max (Ed Vere) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!
Max is a fearless kitten. Max is a brave kitten. Max is a kitten who chases mice. There's only one problem: Max doesn't know what a mouse looks like! With a little bit of bad advice, Max finds himself facing a much bigger challenge. Maybe Max doesn't have to be Max the Brave all the time...
Join this adventurous black cat as he very politely asks a variety of animals for
...14) Max at Night
Author
Series
Max (Ed Vere) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The companion to the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Max the Brave!
Max is done being brave, and now it's time to sleep—all he has to do is say good night. But something's wrong! When Max goes to say good night to the moon, it's nowhere to be found. Unable to sleep without finishing his nighttime ritual, Max embarks on a journey to find the moon and wish it a good night.
Praise for Max the Brave:
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...15) Planets
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This brilliantly illustrated book taps into children's natural curiosity about the vast world of space. This level two reader, written in simple language that is easy for young readers to understand, introduces children to our solar system, including all of the planets and dwarf planets, and lots of fascinating fun facts. This reader helps cultivate the explorers of tomorrow! This high-interest, educationally vetted series of beginning readers
...16) Citizen Vince
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder—set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election
It's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden,
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Series
Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 58
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting, Cameron Clay, the Gazette's most hated columnist in New York City, after he begins to receive anonymous death threats. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who has hurled insults and accusations at every boldfaced name in the five boroughs, but the latest ones carried a more sinister tone.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens.
"Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon developed a godlike surveillance device that will someday be used over every major city on the planet. This new technology--and its most powerful iteration to date, Gorgon Stare--can track thousands of moving targets at once over vast...
20) Flight school
Author
Series
Flight school volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.