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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Peter Sagal, the host of NPRs Wait Wait...Dont Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runners World, shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth. At the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagalbrainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radiostarted running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running...
44) Jaws
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English
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A great white shark terrorizes a seaside resort town.
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Back in print and now available in trade paperback, Dorothy L. Sayers' classic tale of murder and scandal at a chic London advertising agency, featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey. When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some...
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Our Sunday Visitor
Language
English
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"In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades -- a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter -- a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church -- was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill. But his tomb had been...
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English
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Now a major motion picture starring Louis Partridge and Vanessa Redgrave, The Lost Girls is the story of a now grown-up Wendy and her ties to Peter Pan, in a novelized retelling of the original fairy tale. Imagine a world in which the sole purpose of the women in the Darling family has been to entertain Peter Pan and his lost tribe. That is, until the contemporary Wendy Darling decides that she does not want to succumb to the same fate of the three...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium—the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influences reverberating around the world. Across four decades, a single mysterious figure stood behind them all: Peter Gatien, the leading impresario of...
54) Wendy, darling
Author
Series
Neverland novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When Peter Pan returns, taking her daughter Jane instead of her, Wendy must follow Peter back to Neverland and rescue Jane--and finally face the darkness at the heart of the island.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A look at the personal and artistic life of artist Peter Max. Max charts his ascension in the art world and pauses to reflect on the nature of creativity, the universe at large, his many loves and his ability to see beauty in the everyday.
56) The burnt house
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious plane crashes, it leaves the charred remains of four unidentified bodies. As LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife Rina investigate, they soon must race to unravel crucial clues before something sinister happens to anyone else.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a Sussex town on the southeast coast of England, a widely disliked art teacher at a posh private girls' school disappears without explanation. Meanwhile, detective Peter Diamond finds himself in Sussex, much against his wishes. His irritating and often obtuse supervisor, Assistant Chief Constable Georgina Dallymore, has made Diamond accompany her on a Home Office internal investigation. A Sussex detective has been suspended for failing to follow...
58) Tsarina
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping first-person narrative is the story of her rise to power. St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father to an appalling act of cruelty and left the empire without an heir. Russia risks falling into...
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple
Pub. Date
c2012
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces Peter Pan and Neverland using the lyrics of two songs from the classic musical, framed with a simple version of the story of Peter's arrival in the nursery and his teaching the Darling children to fly. Includes the lyrics to "Never Never Land"and "I'm Flying."
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
Richard Todd delivers a thoroughly winning performance as Peter Marshall, the Scottish-born minister who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. A Man Called Peter is the deeply moving tale of 'a man and his close friendship with God.'
Scottish-born minister Peter Marshall becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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