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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Marina is the cherished daughter of the wealthy Saverson family, practioners of Elemental Magic. But all is not well in this elegant, aristocratic household. Evil portents have warned her father that Marina will be killed before her eighteenth birthday-by the hand of her own aunt. And no one is sure if the family magic is powerful enough to overturn the prophesy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Jerusalem's eight gates represent the spiritual gateways of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and each plays a vital role in Jerusalem's past, present and perhaps future. Through the description of these gates, this documentary traces the history of the most troubled and the most revered city in the world from Abraham to modern time.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the foremost experts on Ukraine and the former USSR, a concise, authoritative history of Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Treasure hunter Porter Stone believes he has found the tomb of the god-king Narmer, south of the Egyptian border. As the excavation gets under way, Stone and his experts begin to encounter peculiar anomalies, and so Stone turns to "enigmalogist" Jeremy Logan. What Logan finds raises alarm, and asks more questions than it answers.
10) Devil's gate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a woman and her son mysteriously vanish, FBI agent Daria Francis is dispatched to the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota to investigate the number one suspect: religious fanatic Jackson Pritchard, husband and father of the missing persons. However, when Francis and local deputy Colt arrive at Pritchard's foreboding property, they discover much more than they bargained for lurking in the basement.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
WHAT LIES BEYOND THE ELEVENTH GATE . . . Despite economic and territorial tensions, no one wants the city-states of the Eight Worlds to repeat the Terran Collapse by going to war. But when war accidentally happens, everyone seeks ways to exploit it for gain. The Landry and Peregoy ruling dynasties see opportunities to grab territory, increase profits, and settle old scores. Exploited underclasses use war to fuel rebellion. Ambitious heirs can finally...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he's encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America's institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. Meanwhile, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agency's database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the worlds first trillionaire, she convinces...
Author
Series
Super Schnoz volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old boy with a massive nose becomes an unlikely superhero when a criminal organization plots to destroy his school.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cursive II had its international premiere at the opening of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. After studying Chinese calligraphy masterpieces, Lin Hwai-min found, despite the differences in styles, all the brush works share one common element: the focused energy with which the calligraphers "danced" during writing. Chinese believe there are five shades of black ink. Cursive II explores the lighter shades in a meditative mood, evoking the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,...
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
This film documents each phase of the Golden Gate Bridge construction in the 1930s. Produced by Bethlehem Steel, it includes engineering diagrams, explanations of construction techniques and structural design, project timelines, and stock shots of the completed bridge.
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