Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The truth and nothing but the truth-Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends.
The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.
The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.
In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock.
Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Civil War has ended, but the Hazards and Mains have yet to face their greatest struggles. Even as the embers of old hatreds continue to burn in the heart of a nation torn apart by war, a new future in the West awaits a new generation of Americans seeking a life of their own." -- Back cover.
4) Killshot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Carmen Colson is introducing her ironworker husband Wayne to the wonderful world of real estate brokering when the pair gets caught in the middle of an extortion scheme. With some quick thinking and some even quicker swinging of a crowbar, Wayne puts two nasty thugs temporarily out of commission. But now the Colsons' quiet life becomes a desperate fight to survive ruthless killers. Hiding in the witness protection program, they quickly learn it's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War--and her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.
Young Men and Fire won the National
...8) The firm
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray--doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail--already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help....
10) Cyclops
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt is in the middle of an international crisis involving dead Soviet cosmonauts, a covert group of U.S. industrialists and a secret lunar colony.
A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men-Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of US industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they...
11) Hold the dream
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Emma Harte is eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of ther vast business empire she has created. To her favourite grandchild, Paula McGill Fairley, Emma bequeaths her mighty retaining empire with these heartfelt words 'I charge you to hold my dream.' As Paula follows in her grandmother's remarkable footsteps, she must exhibit determination and strength she possessed to 'hold the dream' which was entrusted to her and in so doing, find...
Author
Language
English
Description
Just when his doctor put him on a strict diet, Qwilleran's assignment at the newspaper was to write a regular column on the enjoyment of good food and wine, but before long, it's more than Qwilleran's pounds that are disappearing and reporter and felines seem to have a murder on their hands and paws.
18) Get Shorty
Author
Language
English
Description
Overview: Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind-plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town, with its dream-makers, glitter, hucksters, and liars-plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look-seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the cinematic. Besides, Chili's got an idea...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The law nailed him with every murder in the Southwest! And every holdup, horse theft and any other unsolved crime in the territory. But Buck Duane was innocent. He was just too busy ducking to prove it. Then he met the Texas Ranger and found the chance to clear his name. He rode out alone to bring in the vicious Cheseldine Gang. Now he'd ride back for his pardon - or die!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly--when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request