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1282) 007: Dr. No
Pub. Date
2007
Description
British Secret Service Agent, James Bond, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of another agent.
1283) The lady and the mountain man: the unlikely friendship of Isabella Bird and Rocky Mountain Jim
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady expected to marry a man of means and position. Instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. This book reveals the true story of Bird's relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains"--
1284) Broken music: a mystery
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"The year is 1919 and Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Former police sergeant Herbert Reardon returns home, determined to finally find out what happened the night that his daughter, Marianne, was found drowned in the lake. When a maid is found murdered in exactly the same spot, Reardon is convinced that the two cases are linked"--
1286) Live and let die
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
British secret agent James Bond takes on a powerful drug lord who schemes to conquer the world.
1287) Napoleon's last island
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote...
1288) The Buccaneers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Four young American girls journey from America to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The honey badger is one the most fearless animals in the world, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees, scorpions, and snakes. The film follows a team of researchers in South Africa who set out to study them, stymie them, rescue them, or keep them as pets.
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Description
Older, but not necessarily wiser, the gang is reunited when Adam returns to Manchester from working abroad to make an announcement, but not everyone is as thrilled as he is. Follow the highs and lows of these much loved characters as they fail and thrive in equal parts in their search for a sure path in life.
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Description
Older, but not necessarily wiser, the gang is reunited when Adam returns to Manchester from working abroad to make an announcement, but not everyone is as thrilled as he is. Follow the highs and lows of these much loved characters as they fail and thrive in equal parts in their search for a sure path in life.
1293) Let the dead speak
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"When eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home she finds her mother missing, the house covered in blood. Everything points to murder, except for one thing: there's no sign of the body. London detective Maeve Kerrigan and the homicide team turn their attention to the neighbours. The ultra-religious Norrises are acting suspiciously; their teenage daughter and Chloe Emery definitely have something to hide. Then there's William Turner,...
1294) Death of an avid reader
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The search for a daughter. Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia. A haunted library. It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, yet the stories have begun again. Kate does not believe in ghosts but obligingly takes part in a ceremony to expel the restless spirit. Shockingly, there is a body...
Author
Series
Jane Bond parodies volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When James Bond lands in the hospital, the home office enlists the aid of his lesbian twin sister, Jane Bond. Masquerading as her brother, Jane travels to Las Vegas to attend the annual men-only International Spy Convention. Her mission: steal a secret spy invention. Then an American agent is thrown over the Hoover Dam, and with all fingers pointing to Jane, the mission turns doubly dangerous.
1297) I remember Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and betrayed; his friend, who helplessly loses his wife to a hero;...
1299) The last post
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club, where the swinging '60s are in full swing?
1300) Chamber divers: the untold story of the D-day scientists who changed special operations forever
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success."--