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"John Puller may be the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father -- a highly decorated army veteran -- may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrived on the scene, he realized that there is far more to this case than he first though. He knows that nothing...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue dog are on the trail of a killer hiding where others fear to tread... For Meg Jennings and her K-9 companion, Hawk, exploring the ruins of a deserted building is an exciting way to sharpen their skills without the life-or-death stakes they face as part of the FBI's Human Scent Evidence Team. But deep in the echoing rooms of an abandoned asylum, Hawk finds the body of an elderly woman. The victim...
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Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Brian came home from Afghanistan.
But he brought the war back with him.
If life were a movie, my role would be Emo Kid/Family Loser. My brother Brian would star as Master of the Universe. You might think it would be easy to resent him, but my brother is impossible to hate. Just like everyone else, I'm thrilled to have Brian back home from Afghanistan in one piece. But he's different now.
Everyone refuses to see my brother's
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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Bosnian
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Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, this film portrays the grim futility of war. A group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night. At daybreak, the fog lifts, and the Serbs open fire. Soon Chiki is the only Bosnian survivor because he was able to dive into a trench in no man's land. Chiki then watches as two Serbian soldiers use the body of a fallen Bosnian to bait a land mine. He fires on...
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Rowan novel ; 2
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Junior CIA field agent Kelly Kaiser jumps at the chance to lead a risky mission to enter Mexico and gather refugees from under the nose of the notorious drug lord who murdered her fiancé. When the mission takes a revenge-fuelled twist, Kelly finds herself facing dismissal, but Agnes Pendalon, the CIA's chief 'spook' lady, has other ideas. Kelly must lead a new, top-secret team to hunt down everyone infected by a magical, mysterious rowan tree's...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors were...
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Shout! Factory
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[2021]
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English
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"While out on a father-son border patrol, Jackson accidentally kills a Mexican immigrant boy. When Jackson's father tries taking the blame, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a gringo 'illegal alien' in Mexico. Chased by Texas Rangers and Mexican Federales, Jackson journeys across Mexico to seek forgiveness from the dead boy's father only to fall in love with the land he was taught to hate." --
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William Morrow
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2005.
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English
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The accolades keep rolling in for G.M. Ford, who's gritty, explosive, lightning-fast brand of thriller has placed him in the upper ranks of contemporary crime fiction authors. Now, in his most relentlessly exciting novel to date, Ford's dark and complex protagonist, Frank Corso, finds himself drawn into a bizarre carnival of blood and death in the last place any sane person would willingly go ...No Man's Land Arizona's Meza Azul penitentiary is the...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
1975.
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English
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Harold Pinter's latest full-length play is set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath. Two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate charade of recognition? The ambiguity -- and the comedy -- intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered,...
10) No man's land
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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A small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man's land.
One of them, Josh, is shaken by the brutality he has witnessed. Another, Lothar, was a German aristocrat who had no desire to die as a supposed hero. There are tensions among the group, but they are united in their disdain for the war that rages around them-and Lothar and...
11) No man's land
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From inception to deadly conclusion, director David Byars immerses audiences in the 2016 Malheur rebellion with exclusive access into the Oregon compound.
12) No man's land
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Series
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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When the Gateways transport a flood of starships from all over the galaxy, Captain Kathryn Janeway must maintain peace among the disoriented and hostile groups, while realizing that the open Gateways can bring her ship hiome.
13) No man's land
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Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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Wolf, an East German spy and an adulterer, is torn between his wife Dorle and his lover Sylvia and becomes unsure of his own motives in his espionage career.
14) No man's land
Publisher
itn Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"While on a long journey through a remote region of Texas in 1866, Rusty wakes up to find that his family has vanished. As he frantically searches for them, he runs into a beautiful but desperate Native American girl. Now, they will have to get along and learn to stick together to stay alive long enough to both get what they want." --
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English
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Welsh-born, Cambridge-educated Fowler takes a cynical tone as she recreates her dizzying descent into New York's demimonde as a strip-club dancer. Assuming an alter ego she calls Mimi, a parasitical spirit, the author at age 26 arrived in New York to fill a void after graduating from Cambridge, then spent three years traveling around the world and working on boats as a chef. Back in Manhattan, she soon became one of the nameless crowd of undocumented...
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a...novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme."--
19) No Land's Man
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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The actor shares a heartfelt "collection of humorous essays that explore his myriad identities: Indian, Muslim, British, and American" (The Boston Globe).
"My father moved our family to the United States because of a word. It was a word whose meaning fascinated him. It was a singularly American word, a fat word, a word that could only be spoken with decadent pride. That word was . . . Brunch! "The beauty of America," he would...
"My father moved our family to the United States because of a word. It was a word whose meaning fascinated him. It was a singularly American word, a fat word, a word that could only be spoken with decadent pride. That word was . . . Brunch! "The beauty of America," he would...
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English
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"When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him. Assured a position as a cartographer in London, he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief"--Amazon.com.
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