Michael White
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation agency quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private throws open its doors. Craig Gisto and his newly formed team have barely raised their glasses, however, when a young Asian man, blood-soaked and bullet-ridden, staggers into the party, and what looks like a botched kidnapping...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution. But there was far more to Newton even than these great discoveries. Opening with an informative foreword by the bestselling author of The Body Bill Bryson, the book is then divided into two parts:...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman and world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner, and Lady Shiva to battle...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Based on harrowing true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decadent morsel. And now there's even more to make watchers shiver with anticipation: two additional musical numbers, Once In A While; and Superheroes; never seen theatrically or available on video! Join Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad Majors, Janet Weiss and Eddie: Ex Delivery Boy in the most popular cult classic of all time.
11) Triple threat
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A breakneck thriller that teams over half a dozen of the world's biggest action stars for the martial arts film event of the year. When a hit contract is taken out on a billionaire's daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate, a team of wanted mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins to stop them from hitting their target.
12) The rock
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A general and his men take over Alcatraz Island and threaten to gas bomb San Francisco. A biochemical weapons expert and John Patrick Mason, the only man who ever successfully escaped from the prison, are called in to disarm the rockets.