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Series
Ghosthunters ; 2
Language
English
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Description
Hetty Hyssop and her assistant ghosthunters travel to a seaside hotel to investigate the appearance of one of the most dangerous ghosts in the world.
23) Heretics
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz--the...
Author
Publisher
Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"President Trump's new tax law is fully effective, and millions are finding out about the little-known "Trump Tax Loophole." This guide explains the new loophole and how taxpayers like you can save billions in taxes. With this loophole you can slash your personal taxes by an additional 20%! That's if you qualify--and many Americans do. This guide shows you how. The Trump Tax Cut is your guidebook to the biggest tax cut in history. In plain English,...
Publisher
Eagle Vision
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having spent almost two years non-stop touring, and invigorated by their triumphant Latin America experience, Queen hit Montreal in top form. As would be expected of Queen, they took the form of the concert film to a new level, becoming the first group to shoot an entire show in full cinema format.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The Other Americans reveals a starkly different America from the image of mainstream success or crippled dependency. The immigrants Millman profiles here - Indian motel owners, Mexican entrepreneurs, Chinese farmers, and Caribbean real estate developers - live in an America of their own making. Exploiting their determination, their family connections, the financial support and protection of mutual aid societies and saving circles, these immigrants...
34) 2
Author
Publisher
J & R Adventures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Black Country Communion are an English-American rock supergroup.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Tía Isa quiere un carro brillante que sea del mismo color verde del océano... Mientras tía Isa ahorra, su sobrina apila naranjas y alimenta gatos para sumar el dinero que gana a la pila. Así podrán comprar el carro perfecto-- ¡uno que pueda llevar a todos a la playa!"-- Back cover.
Tìa Isa and her niece try to save enough money to buy a car to take the whole family to the beach.
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Description
This volume of poems sent as Christmas cards to the poet's closest friends over a period of twelve years includes his "special words of Christmas : holidays spent not only near the holly and the ivy, but on Forty-second Street, in the fields and on the beach, in love, waiting for love."
Author
Publisher
Sea Breeze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Shot Down is a compelling story of our B-17 aircrews that flew, fought, and died over Europe to save a continent from tyranny and oppression. There were over 56,000 downed airmen in World War II. Lt. Howard Snyder and the crew of the Susan Ruth were one of those crews that went down over Europe ... --General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, retired, 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force."--Back cover.
38) Every man a hero
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day." --
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II--and one of the bloodiest in United States history--began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now... On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among a dozen gunboats helping to prepare the area for their invasion two days later. U.S. military leaders thought they had weakened Japanese forces in the area so they...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? The Pointblank Directive answers this question using extensive new research that creates a portrait of perhaps the last untold story of Operation Overlord. Following a year of unremarkable bombing against German targets, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commander of the US Army Air Forces, placed his lifelong friend General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz in command of the strategic bombing forces in Europe, and his protégé,...
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