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1) Bullseye
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with...
Author
Series
Lavender tides volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
The dangerous beauty of Lavender Tides is harboring secrets that reach around the world. Ellie Blackmore is making a name for herself as a house flipper. But when her sister Mackenzie disappears, Ellie can't focus on anything but uncovering what happened.Her only clue is the bloodstain on the deck of Mackenzie's boat. Ellie knows her sister isn't on the best of terms with her ex-husband, Jason, but he wouldn't kill her--would he? Coast Guard intelligence...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding...
6) White tears
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Two ambitious young musicians, one shy, the other a glamorous heir, are drawn into the dark underworld of blues-record collecting while navigating the ghosts of a repressive past and the fallout of a scam involving one's claim that a viral video of an unknown singer is the long-lost recording of a famous blues musician.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"In 2011, without warning, a skyscraper in South Korea began to shake uncontrollably and was immediately evacuated. Was it an earthquake? A terrorist attack? No one seemed quite sure. The actual cause emerged later: Twenty-three middle-aged Koreans were having a Tae Bo fitness class in the office gym on the twelfth floor. Their beats had inadvertently matched the building's natural frequency, and this coincidence caused the building to shake at an...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing feat that we all take for granted today--the domestication of sound. Thomas Edison's phonograph, the first device that could both record and reproduce sound, represented...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Beep, beep, beep! Whirrrr. From loud and annoying to peaceful and relaxing, sounds are an ever-present part of life. Sound not only helps us send messages to one another, but also tells us about our world."--
10) Sea gypsy
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
p2015.
Language
English
Description
Cathy thought she had left everything behind--the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart--for a quiet three-month getaway on the North Carolina shores. But the moment Jared sailed the lavish Sea Gypsy into Pamlico Sound, she knew her quiet refuge was ruined. She wasn't sure what bothered her more about this stranger, his arrogant attitude or the way he got under her skin. Would Cathy run away again?
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1970-
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kids will love this noise-filled Bright and Early Book classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss! Mr. Brown is a sound-making wonder! He canhoo hoo like an owl and buzz buzz like a bee. It is so much fun to make noises that you hear every day, likemoo and tick-tock. But stranger sounds are fun to make, too . . . like thepip of a goldfish kiss and the grum grum of a hippo chewing gum. Encouraging imaginative play while learning to read,Mr. Brown Can...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater...
14) Three sisters
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After Andi is jilted at the altar, she makes the decision to buy one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island. When Deanna confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's box of unhappiness. Next door, artist Boston thought she and her college sweetheart would be married forever, but after a tragedy, she's not so sure. Thrown together by fate and geography, and bound by the strongest of friendships,...
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Elliott the otter lives in Puget Sound's Elliott Bay and claims it's named after him. And why wouldn't it be, since he's in charge of its daily activity? From the freighters bringing in cargo from around the world to the salmon passing through on their way upstream, Elliott is the boss of it all"--
Author
Series
Vinyl detective novels volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"He is a record collector -- a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. Some end up on his turntable, some are sold at a handsome profit, and all sound a hell of a lot better than any digital recording. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording -- on behalf...
18) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
20) On truth
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A philosophical treatise on the nature of truth offers a common-sense and witty approach that examines what it is and its value in a world and culture that seems devoted to falsehood, lies, half-truths, and marketing jargon.
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