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Kaya and the Lone Dog

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#hardcover #exlib #law #science #laser The inventor, the Noble Laureate, and the thirty-year patent war. 

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The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War

Laser is the fascinating, true story of Gordon Gould's successful 30-year struggle to assert himself as the right inventor of the laser, and a myth-shattering, behind-the-scenes account of the American patent process. of photos.

Laser

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The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across mountainous terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential if they were to defeat the Taliban. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed. Dangerously outnumbered, they fought for their lives in the city's immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers perished or were captured, the effort to defeat the Taliban might be doomed. As the Americans struggled to hold the fortress, they faced some of the most intense urban warfare of our time. But until now the full story of the Horse Soldiers has never been told. Doug Stanton received unprecedented cooperation from the U.S. Army's Special Forces soldiers and Special Operations helicopter pilots, as well as access to voluminous after-battle reports. In addition, he interviewed more than one hundred participants and walked every inch of the climactic battleground. This exciting story is filled with unforgettable characters: brave Special Forces soldiers, tough CIA operatives, cunning Afghan warlords, anxious stateside soldiers' wives who do not know where their husbands have gone, and humble Afghan boys spying on the Taliban. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stanton's account of America's quest to liberate an oppressed people touches the mythic. The Horse Soldiers combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople and avoid civilian casualties proved a valuable lesson for America's ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. Horse Soldiers is a big-hearted and thrilling read, with an epic story that reaches not just across the cold mountains of Afghanistan but into the homes of small-town America, and confirms Doug Stanton as one of our country's preeminent storytellers.

Horse Soldiers

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Oklahoma

When Malcolm Dawson's daughter Robyn is reported missing from her archeological dig in France, he sets out to look for her. The site seethes with age-old resentment and her colleagues all seem to have reason to wish her out the way. But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.

The Ghosts of Albi  Ex Lib 2925

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Jim DeBrosse

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Southern Cross Ex Lib 2192

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The nineteenth in the series of mysteries by the bestselling author of The Rosary Murders--a finalist for the American Book Award--The Man Who Loved God continues the adventures of Father Robert Koesler, the priest/sleuth who solves murders in Detroit.

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Janet Tashjian

Derek Fallon gets the chance of a lifetime when he is asked to test software for new video games, but he soon discovers that his dream job isn't all it's cracked up to be.

My Life As a Gamer

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Hal Friedman

Cory Friedman

Virginia

A True Story

A nonfiction account by the best-selling suspense author follows a family's decades-long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that from the age of five induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a nightmarish situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.

Against Medical Advice

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Hans Christian Anderson

Bernadette Watts

After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous journey to find him.

Mary Engelbreit's the Snow Queen

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#hardcover #SovietWar #￼Afghanistan #exlib 

The Soviet War in Afghanistan

"Fascinating....A highly readable history of the conflict." --New York Times Book Review

In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the war that contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR, and that offers striking lessons for the 21st century, as well. Told from the perspective of the Russians who fought it, The Great Gamble offers valuable insight into the history of Afghanistan's troubled government and the rise of the Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda. In the words of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Feifer has done truly extraordinary research... For all its heft, [The Great Gamble] is an effortless read--an unusual and gratifying combination."

The Great Gamble

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Peter Macklin, contract killer - retired - has found himself the perfect woman. He's convinced young, beautiful, innocent Laurie that he is simply a salesman from Detroit, and they're passionately honeymooning in Los Angeles. . . . until the phone call. Peter tells Laurie he has to go to Sacramento to take care of business, and he'll be back in a day. After a day passes, though, a man called Abilene shows up with a note from Peter saying Abilene will take care of her until his return.Macklin's retirement seems to have been premature, and Laurie's innocence is about to end . . .

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Dicey Deere

A Torrey Tunet Mystery

American Torrey Tunet finds a new mystery in the Irish village of Ballynagh when the granddaughter of a wealthy man becomes the suspect in a murderous attack on the old man on the grounds of his estate.

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"It's mid-August, and San Antonio is on edge. Over the summer three children have briefly disappeared, each returning home with chillingly similar accounts of where they have been - of the man who took them in, tended to them, touched them in all the wrong ways. It is a story that has scraped a raw nerve. The city wants action, demanding immediate retribution: Find and punish the man the newspapers call the "serial child molester."" "For District Attorney Mark Blackwell, in the midst of a reelection campaign, the case could be a windfall - an opportunity to make headlines and the six o'clock news. His old boss, former DA Eliot Quinn, has come to him with a deal. The molester, represented by high-powered attorney Austin Paley, wants to turn himself in...not to the police, but to the District Attorney himself. Weary of compromise, jaded by the system's failures, Blackwell sees a chance not only to energize his campaign, but to recharge his own passion - a clear-cut case of doing good in the face of evil." "But the clarity is an illusion, and the windfall is about to turn into a Texas-sized tornado with Mark Blackwell at the eye of the storm. The confessor recants, the children are unable to identify him, and the case begins to crumble. And all the DA has left is questions: What could drive an innocent man to give himself up, subject himself to a city's violent hatred and recrimination? Was he coerced and by whom? And why would a lawyer in Austin Paley's position dirty his hands by taking on such a client?" "The answers lie in the memories of one ten-year-old boy. Tommy Algren has seen the pictures in the paper, the reports on TV, and he has a story to tell, a story that could rock the city to its very foundations. Tommy's testimony leads to a shocking revelation, one which pits Blackwell against the city's power elite - the old boys' network, where promises are always kept, favors always returned, and secrets never violated. To bring out the truth, Blackwell will have to cross his mentor, Eliot Quinn, a man who knows where the bodies are buried...and who may have buried a few himself. For in a world of money, power, and influence, the line between innocence and guilt is just another string to be pulled."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Martin Greenberg

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Sandi Ault

In this follow-up to Wild Indigo, Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild is deployed to a wildfire on the Southern Ute reservation, where a puzzling plea whispered by a burning man points to a mystery more menacing than murder.

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One-armed detective Dan Fortune finds a new mystery when he is hired to investigate the disappearance of a U.S. Embassy attache in Guatemala, leading to untold dangers as he encounters an international drug smuggler known as "The Irishman"

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Carroll Quint is the entertainment critic for theSan Francisco Bulletin. He doesn't earn a lot of money, but the job does give him a certain place in the city's after-dark world, and he loves seeing the newest play, or the newest movie, and writing about them for his readers.
His job, however, gets harder for him to do when friends of his start showing up dead, each one in some way connected to the entertainment industry.  Someone calling himself Thanatos, the Greek god of death, is sending him e-mails, taunting him with clues from Alfred Hitchcock movies regarding the next target. With each murder, the police become more suspicious of Quint, who they figure is sending the e-mails to himself. Quint must race to find the killer, but danger is closer to him than he realizes.
Jigsaw is the first in a welcome new series from veteran mystery author Jerry Kennealy.  It's a story full of suspense and humor, featuring a charming sleuth, that will be sure to please readers.

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Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman races against time to find burglar Pitty-Pitty Patniks, who, in the course of a robbery, becomes an unwitting and reluctant witness to murder.

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Nancy Pickard

Jenny Cain and police detective Geof Bushfield already had pre-nuptial jitters. Then a sudden wave of domestic violence rocked placid Port Frederick - in just two weeks, the husbands of three battered wives were shot dead. Homicide was all too familiar to Geof, but this was enough to make him want to quit the force. Except that none of the wives confessed - and none of the guns were found. As Geof searched for clues, Jenny uncovered a dangerous secret - a murderous obsession that threatened to tear Port Frederick apart!

Marriage Is Murder Large Print Ex Lib 3521

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Randye Lordon

A Sydney Sloane Mystery

When her godchild's father is murdered in the hallway of his apartment building, NYC private investigator Sydney Sloane investigates a threatening phone call received by the victim's wife by a man who claims to be the son she gave up for adoption many years earlier. By the author of East of Niece.

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Evolution in Action

A satirical "award" celebrating the worst examples of human intelligence features stories about the man who used a cigarette lighter to check his gas level, the terrorist who opened his own letter bomb, and other stories of human idiocy.

The Darwin Awards (I and II) 

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Aileen Baron

It is the summer of 1938 and Jerusalem is in chaos. The atmosphere teems with intrigue as terrorists roam the countryside and the British are losing control of the Mandate, even as Europe nervously teeters on the brink of World War II. Against this backdrop of international tensions, Lily Sampson, an American graduate student, is involved in a dig -- an important excavation directed by the eminent British archaeologist, Geoffrey Eastbourne. An important member of the dig is murdered as he makes his way to the opening of the Rockefeller Museum. At the same time, precious artefacts from the dig go missing, one of which is a beautiful blue glass amphoriskos which Lily herself has excavated. Upset by the loss, she searches for the vial -- enlisting the help of the military attache of the American consulate. But when she contacts the British police, they are evasive and off-putting -- unable or unwilling either to find the murderer or to look into the theft of the amphoriskos. Lily realises that she will get no help from them and sets out on her own to find the vial. When she finds the victim's diary in her tent, she assumes he had left it for her because he feared for his life.Lily's search for information about the murder and the theft of the amphoriskos lead into a labyrinth of extreme danger and intrigue.

A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes 3541

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Vivien Armstrong

When Adele Morrison's body is found in the swimming pool of the Crown House hotel, her estranged husband stands to inherit everything he had been fighting to claim as part of a divorce settlement. DI Ian Preston, however, is unable to get past the coroner's verdict of accidental death -- until the body of Adele's lover is found floating in the Thames.

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