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Ancient prophecy fulfilled | Holy Bible (NIV) | The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation. | 10 | 106 |
Arctic exploration saga | Polar Explorers for Kids | Heroism and horror abound in these true stories of 16 great explorers who journeyed to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, two exquisite and unique ice wildernesses. Recounted are the exciting North Pole adventures of Erik the Red in 982 and the elusive searches for the “Northwest Passage” and “Farthest North” of Henry H... | 11 | 120 |
Arctic exploration saga | Ninety Degrees North | The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was ... | 11 | 121 |
Arctic exploration saga | Arctic Ocean Saga | Arctic Ocean Saga explores the vital role of the Arctic Ocean in shaping world history and understanding global climate change. By weaving together environmental history, maritime history, and climatology, the book reveals the Arctic's profound influence on our planet. Readers will discover the Arctic's geological past... | 11 | 122 |
Arctic exploration saga | Ships of Wood and Men of Iron | In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek... | 11 | 123 |
Arctic exploration saga | Trial by Ice | “An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landm... | 11 | 124 |
Arctic exploration saga | Labyrinth of Ice | National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insist... | 11 | 125 |
Arctic exploration saga | Island of the Blue Foxes | The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg ac... | 11 | 126 |
Arctic exploration saga | Leading at the Edge | Drawing on the amazing story of Shackleton and his polar exploration team’s survival against all odds, author Dennis N. T. Perkins demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity, uncertainty, and change. Part adventure tale and part leadership guide, Leading at the Edge uncovers what the legendary... | 11 | 127 |
Best friend adventure | Moon! Earth's Best Friend | From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon—told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock—she’s Earth’s rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon... | 12 | 128 |
Best friend adventure | The Friendship Adventure | On an adventure to make a new friend, Bruno finds himself in a some tough situations. He falls flat on his face, meets a hedgehog, and even gets lost in a dark, wet cave! For this adventure, you will need your coping ax, inclusion glue, and friendship rope! Join Bruno on this exciting adventure and don't forget to pack... | 12 | 129 |
Best friend adventure | Traitor's Blade | With swashbuckling action that recalls Dumas's Three Musketeers, Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade, a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy. The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, ... | 12 | 130 |
Best friend adventure | The Best Friend Plan | From Stephanie Calmenson and Magic School Bus author Joanna Cole comes the first story about the adventures of Allie and Amy, two friends who have a true-blue friendship in this silly, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book that’s perfect for emerging readers! Best, best, best friends Amy and Allie do absolutely everyth... | 12 | 131 |
Best friend adventure | Wonder Woman: A Word Adventure! | BOOTS! LASSO! PLANE! In this digital book, follow WONDER WOMAN, the Amazon Princess, on an exciting, colorful adventure in first words. This DC Comics board book guides children on a point-and-learn story, teaching them everyday words with their favorite (or soon-to-be-favorite) super hero! Comic book lovers and kids o... | 12 | 132 |
Best friend adventure | My Best Friend is Extinct | Key Selling Points In My Best Friend Is Extinct a boy discovers a strange, wounded prehistoric creature and nurses it back to health. A fun imaginative adventure story about bravery and friendship. There are more than 30 fun, evocative b/w illustrations by an award-winning illustrator. The creatures in the book are bas... | 12 | 133 |
Best friend adventure | The Bucket/F*ck It List | Do you dream of seeing a honey badger in the wild? Roasting a turducken next Thanksgiving? Mastering Cockney rhyming slang? Wearing lederhosen? Drinking banana wine in the Canary Islands? Then this book is for you. (But if you're content instead to stay home and binge watch Netflix, then this book is also for you.) Not... | 12 | 134 |
Best friend adventure | The Bucket List | Build your dream vacation with this eclectic and tantalizing collection of 1,000 life-affirming adventures spanning the 7 continents A travel book like no other, this unique guide will inspire both seasoned trekkers and arm-chair globetrotters alike to build experiences you will treasure forever. You'll find memorable,... | 12 | 135 |
Big city dreams | Big Dreams, Small Fish | Sydney Taylor Honor Book In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish. But her parents t... | 13 | 136 |
Big city dreams | Everything Now | A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis—not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking abou... | 13 | 137 |
Big city dreams | Little Bigfoot, Big City | After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a... | 13 | 138 |
Big city dreams | Small Cities with Big Dreams | How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an impor... | 13 | 139 |
Big city dreams | Street of Eternal Happiness | An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China. Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad tor... | 13 | 140 |
Big city dreams | Barbie: Big City Big Dreams | What happens when Barbie Roberts from Malibu meets another Barbie Roberts from Brooklyn? They become best friends, of course! Follow along as Malibu and Brooklyn learn what it takes to be a great friend in this fun storybook with an included charm bracelet. Barbie Roberts is off to New York City for the summer of a lif... | 13 | 141 |
Big city dreams | Big City, Big Dreams (Barbie) | A Step into Reading leveled reader based on the Barbie: Big City, Big Dream musical special, premiering fall 2021 on Netflix! Boys and girls age 3-6 will love to read this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader based on the brand-new Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams musical special premiering on NETFLIX in fall 2021. Step... | 13 | 142 |
Big city dreams | Big City Dreams | Logan ran away from her current life and childhood love in Texas to start over in New York City. She quickly realizes from her first 'y'all' that life in the big city is much different than the familiar life of the ranch she left behind. On her first day in the city, Logan meets the charismatic Mac, who has connections... | 13 | 143 |
Big city dreams | Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams | Winner, 2023 Hugo Award—Best Graphic Story or Comic! Two scavengers veer paths in their pursuit of happiness through the streets of Night City. Tasha and Mirek make a living for themselves stealing cyberware and indulging in parties and braindances. Tasha is rowdy and wild--she seeks to up her street cred to become the... | 13 | 144 |
Boarding school mystery | The Swallows | A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war—with deadly consequences—in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger “Riveting . . . full of imagination and power.”—Caroline Kepnes, author of You and Providence NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEW YORK • WINNER OF... | 14 | 145 |
Boarding school mystery | The Boarding School Experiment | There are three steps to taking revenge on the most popular, hottest guy in your senior class: -Stealth -Planning & -Execution. After Elena fails at all of them, she's tossed into a government run boarding school in Alaska. The worst part? Thane Trallwyn--her worst enemy and subject of her blown revenge--goes in with h... | 14 | 146 |
Boarding school mystery | The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy | Franny is thrilled when she's accepted by the Allbright Academy, an elite private boarding school designed to train leaders. But she knows she's not as smart as the other kids there—or as beautiful, accomplished, confident, or mature. The fact is, the Allbright students—from their shining teeth and flawless complexions... | 14 | 147 |
Boarding school mystery | Dead Popular | A new chilling read from the author of LYING ABOUT LAST SUMMER. The ultimate queen bee, Kate knows that you don't become the most powerful girl at Mount Vernon by playing nice. But when strange, chilling messages start appearing all over the school, she realizes someone is playing a much more dangerous game - and they ... | 14 | 148 |
Boarding school mystery | A Body at a Boarding School | Something is rotten at the Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen. With rumours of fighting, cheating, and all-night parties - and that's just the teachers - the headmaster is losing control of the school. When a body is discovered, bludgeoned to death with a monkey statue on the last day of term, renowned de... | 14 | 149 |
Boarding school mystery | Redemption Prep | A New York Times bestseller! Twin Peaks meets Riverdale in this twisty atmospheric mystery from the critically acclaimed author of A Lite Too Bright, Samuel Miller, about the search for a missing girl at an elite prep school. Everyone knows Emma. Neesha’s her best friend, Aiden’s her basketball star boyfriend, and Evan... | 14 | 150 |
Boarding school mystery | The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School | The devastating start to Dr. Harper's career. I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive. I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage. No, all of that started after the incidents a... | 14 | 151 |
Boarding school mystery | In the Hall with the Knife | A murderer could be around every corner in this thrilling YA trilogy based on the board game CLUE! When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students—including Beth “Peacock” Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam “Mustard” Maestor, Finn Plum, and ... | 14 | 152 |
Boarding school mystery | At Briarwood School for Girls | The award-winning author of Eveningland “combines a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story and a meditation on history in his engrossing latest novel” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). It’s 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite ... | 14 | 153 |
Celebrity life satire | Sentiment & Celebrity | Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once called "the most talked-about author in America." A widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and "magazinist" Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) was a pioneer in the modern business of celebrity. By charting the sh... | 15 | 156 |
Celebrity life satire | Living the Hiplife | Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by ... | 15 | 157 |
Celebrity life satire | Cloneliness | Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining 20th-century artistic... | 15 | 158 |
Celebrity life satire | Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture | Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying of other celebrities, and her navigation of the l... | 15 | 159 |
Celebrity life satire | Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction | Both literary author and celebrity, Bret Easton Ellis represents a type of contemporary writer who draws from both high and the low culture, using popular culture references, styles and subject matters in a literary fiction that goes beyond mere entertainment. His fiction, arousing the interest of the academia, mass me... | 15 | 160 |
Celebrity life satire | Satiric TV in the Americas | In a time of global infotainment, the crisis of modern journalism, the omnipresence of celebrity culture and reality TV, and the colonization of public discourse by media spectacle and entertainment, postmodern satiric media have emerged as prominent critical voices playing an unprecedented role at the heart of public ... | 15 | 161 |
Celebrity life satire | A Satirical Meaning of Famous Quotes | A Satirical Meaning of Famous Quotes is a witty and sharp exploration of some of history's most iconic and widely quoted statements, offering a humorous twist on their original intentions. This book takes a playful approach to dissect well-known quotes from political figures, philosophers, celebrities, and cultural ico... | 15 | 162 |
Celebrity life satire | Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen | In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price.... | 15 | 163 |
Celebrity life satire | Famous People | This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when y... | 15 | 164 |
Celebrity life scandal | Outrageous Invasions | In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies. Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. These occurrences are often violations of their constitutio... | 16 | 165 |
Celebrity life scandal | The Invention of Celebrity | Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic... | 16 | 166 |
Celebrity life scandal | Divine Lola | An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous "Spider Dance" in the greatest pe... | 16 | 167 |
Celebrity life scandal | The Drama of Celebrity | Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our ob... | 16 | 168 |
Celebrity life scandal | Celebrity Pets Tell All | The scandal sheets and gossip magazines fabricate stories about who is sleeping with whom and who is getting divorced, or pregnant, or suffering from some exotic disease. Instead of depending on these very unreliable sources for her celebrity fix, psychic Lai Ubberud is going straight to a genuine source—their pets. Di... | 16 | 169 |
Celebrity life scandal | The Importance of Being Famous | Vanity Fair's veteran special correspondent pulls back the curtain on the world of celebrity and those who live and die there Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, this National Magazine Award winner covers lives led in public, on camera, in the head... | 16 | 170 |
Celebrity life scandal | Celebrity Culture and the American Dream | Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition’s examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updated examples and addi... | 16 | 171 |
Celebrity life scandal | Behind the Bell | The teen stars of Saved by the Bell entertained global audiences for over a decade. On TV, the actors in this ground-breaking show portrayed characters of model behavior, though often indulging in a little innocent adolescent fun. But what was it like behind the scenes? What were these kids really like, and what was it... | 16 | 172 |
Celebrity life scandal | TMI | "Delicious memoir. . . . catnip for Hollywood gossip hounds." —Publishers Weekly The story of how Mario Lavandeira becomes Perez Hilton, the world's first and biggest celebrity blogger, with millions of readers around the globe. With Perez's help, many promising young artists reached the masses—Katy Perry, Adele, Amy W... | 16 | 173 |
Celebrity life scandal | Confidential Confidential | In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, p... | 16 | 174 |
Celebrity love scandal | From Africa to America | Life is about confronting challenges and living our dreams. And for one young girl growing up in East Africa, overcoming negativity and striving for the American dream would be her greatest journey. In From Africa to America: A Coat of Many Colors, author Emma Eminash shares a fearless chronicle of her migration from A... | 17 | 175 |
Celebrity love scandal | Disney Star Scandals | Disney Star Scandals investigates the often-turbulent lives of Disney Channel stars, revealing the pressures and personal struggles behind their polished public images. The book explores how the intense demands of child stardom, coupled with constant media scrutiny, can lead to rebellion and crises as these young perfo... | 17 | 176 |
Celebrity love scandal | Hollywood Faith | In Christianity, as with most religions, attaining holiness and a higher spirituality while simultaneously pursuing worldly ideals such as fame and fortune is nearly impossible. So how do people pursuing careers in Hollywood's entertainment industry maintain their religious devotion without sacrificing their career goa... | 17 | 177 |
Celebrity love scandal | The Invention of Celebrity | Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic... | 17 | 178 |
Celebrity love scandal | Celebrity Culture in the United States | Charts the emergence of American celebrity culture, the kinds of people who achieve celebrity status, the continually evolving term celebrity, and what the country's obsession with celebrity says about its society and culture. | 17 | 179 |
Celebrity love scandal | Sex Scandals, Gender, and Power in Contemporary American Politics | Examining how gender impacts political sex scandals in the United States, this book explains how political sex scandals contribute to the mistrust of government and identifies why these events have serious consequences for our political system. The increasing tabloidization of politics and focus on politicians involved... | 17 | 180 |
Celebrity love scandal | How I Escaped My Certain Fate | Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-m... | 17 | 181 |
Celebrity love scandal | Celebrity | The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity ex... | 17 | 182 |
Celebrity love scandal | The Handbook of Journalism Studies | This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and covers scholarship on... | 17 | 183 |
Celebrity romance scandal | The Horizontal Society | This book argues that modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political, and legal life. In traditional societies, relationships and identities were strongly vertical: there was a clear line of authority from top to bottom, and identity was fixed by one's bi... | 18 | 184 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Framing Celebrity | Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore cel... | 18 | 185 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle | A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese... | 18 | 186 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity | Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre ... | 18 | 187 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Kim Unplugged | Kim Unplugged: UNVEILING THE UNTOLD STORIES OF LOVE, LOSS, AND LEGACY – The Real Drama Behind the Glitter! Step Behind the Glamour – Into the World of Secrets, Scandal, and Unbreakable Bonds In the world of fame and fortune, few stories have captivated the public quite like the one between Kim Porter and Sean "Diddy" C... | 18 | 188 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Celebrity | The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity ex... | 18 | 189 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Life Is a Joke | The wit and wisdom of jokes. In that order. Did you hear the one about the man who was convinced he was dead? It’s a classic, and like the 99 other joke in this book, you’ll delight in the reading and even more in the telling. There’s also the one about Einstein and his chauffeur. The woman who went on vacation and lef... | 18 | 190 |
Celebrity romance scandal | The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research | Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by leading academic authorities in the study of magazines, the chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research not only create an architecture to organize and archive the develo... | 18 | 191 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Hot Honey Love | Chef Stef’s passion for her profession is being severely tested. After a disastrous appearance on a cooking competition show, she has become a meme. The entire Internet now knows her as the Kitchen Bawler. Her ascent through the fine dining kitchens of New York City has been thoroughly derailed, but she has a plan to g... | 18 | 192 |
Celebrity romance scandal | Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture | Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying of other celebrities, and her navigation of the l... | 18 | 193 |
Cold case breakthrough | A Cold Case | A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer. A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture and was still at ... | 19 | 201 |
Cold case breakthrough | The Murder of Lil Miss | In the secluded darkness of an early spring night, Lisa Marie Kimmell and her sporty black Honda vanished from a Wyoming desert highway. Frantic, Lisa?s family and friends mounted a tireless search for the missing 18-year old across three states. The answer to Lisa?s disappearance was found a week later in the icy wate... | 19 | 202 |
Cold case breakthrough | Solving Cold Cases | Solving a cold case is extremely difficult and many are left unresolved. In this book, retired NCIS Special Agent Joe Kennedy details the methodology he created to solve cold case murders. He offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into why cases go cold, how they are investigated and what is needed to successfully ... | 19 | 203 |
Cold case breakthrough | Breakthrough | Detective Julian Palmer is taking a break from homicide--or so she thinks until she becomes enmeshed in a bizarre case involving a dead investment banker and a renegade inventor in the New Mexico desert. | 19 | 204 |
Cold case breakthrough | Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents | This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what “works” in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are arrived at in a variety of difficult and time-constrained si... | 19 | 205 |
Cold case breakthrough | The Cold Truth | When Julian Palmer leaves the dirty sludge of Manhattan for a police internship in northern New York State, she finds that the small town's shimmering blankets of snow hide shocking secrets--and a killer with the coldest heart. | 19 | 206 |
Cold case breakthrough | The Chester Creek Murders | When Detective Clayton Tyler is tasked with reviewing the formidable archives of unsolved homicides in his police department’s vaults, he settles on one particular cold case from the 1980s: The Chester Creek Murders. Three young women were brutally murdered—their bodies dumped in Chester Creek, Delaware County—by a ser... | 19 | 207 |
Cold case breakthrough | The Lazarus Files | A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks. On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene su... | 19 | 208 |
Cold case breakthrough | Breakthrough International Negotiation | This fascinating and instructive book offers a revealing, blow-by-blow description of secret, headline-making negotiations in the Middleast, Korea, Africa, and Bosnia, as well as an invaluable guide to conducting such a difficult process of tremendous practical application to a wide variety of conflict resolution profe... | 19 | 209 |
Cold case detective | Cold-case Christianity | Do you believe about the claims of Christianity but aren't sure you believe in them? J. Warner Wallace knows what that's like. For the first thirty-five years of his life, he was a devout atheist. But when he decided to apply his skills as a detective to the claims of the New Testament he came to a startling realizatio... | 20 | 210 |
Cold case detective | Person of Interest | Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder cases. Detective J. Warner Wallace was skeptical of the Bible's claims about Jesus. But he'd investigated several no-body homicide cases in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no... | 20 | 211 |
Cold case detective | Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents | This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what “works” in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are arrived at in a variety of difficult and time-constrained si... | 20 | 212 |
Cold case detective | Solving Cold Cases | Solving a cold case is extremely difficult and many are left unresolved. In this book, retired NCIS Special Agent Joe Kennedy details the methodology he created to solve cold case murders. He offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into why cases go cold, how they are investigated and what is needed to successfully ... | 20 | 213 |
Cold case detective | How to Solve a Cold Case | Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book, Crime Writers of Canada Awards Get inside the mind of an elite cold case investigator and learn how to solve a murder. Despite advances in DNA evidence and forensic analysis, almost half of murder cases in Canada and the US remain unsolved. By 201... | 20 | 214 |
Cold case detective | God's Crime Scene | There are four ways to die, and only one of them requires an intruder. Suicides, accidental, and natural deaths can occur without any evidence from outside the room. But murders typically involve suspects external to the crime scene. If there’s evidence of an outside intruder, homicide detectives have to prepare for a ... | 20 | 215 |
Cold case detective | Cold Case Homicides | This book, now in its second edition, is the first and most exhaustive text covering the still growing popularity of cold case investigations which locate perpetrators and free the innocent. The new edition adds approximately 80 pages of content, including material on clandestine graves and investigating cold gang case... | 20 | 216 |
Cold case detective | Cold-Case Christianity | Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which t... | 20 | 217 |
Cold case detective | Cold-Case Christianity for Kids | Between the ages of 8 and 12, kids often start to wonder if Christianity is true.In Cold-Case Christianity for Kids, detective J. Warner Wallace draws readers into the thrill of high-stakes investigation by showing them how to think rather than telling them what to think. This children’s companion to the bestselling Co... | 20 | 218 |
Cold case detective | Delayed Justice | This book documents the heroic efforts of some of the nation’s most prolific cold case detectives. In collaboration the authors, these professionals share their insights, skills, and resources, using their most compelling cold cases as illustrations. The authors examine how cold case investigations differ from standard... | 20 | 219 |
Cold case secrets | The Murder Book | In this exciting and atmospheric second entry of this Cold Case Investigation mystery series Detective Lauren Riley is determined to bring the attacker that left her for dead to justice . . . even if it is a fellow police officer. Cold Case Detectives Lauren Riley and her partner Shane Reese are helping the Homicide Sq... | 21 | 220 |
Cold case secrets | Buried Cold Case Secrets | Recovering her missing memories could be the key to solving a murder Searching for her best friend’s remains could help forensic anthropologist Melanie Hutton regain her memories of when they were both kidnapped—unless the killer gets to Melanie first. For her safety, Melanie must rely on Detective Jason Cooper, who st... | 21 | 221 |
Cold case secrets | The Book of Cold Cases | A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads * A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by... | 21 | 222 |
Cold case secrets | The Keeper of Lost Causes | Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t d... | 21 | 223 |
Cold case secrets | The Sorority Murder | “The 10 Best New Mystery and Thriller Books of December are Giving Us Literal Chills”—E! Online “10 Books to Cozy Up With This December”—PopSugar A popular sorority girl. An unsolved murder. A campus podcast with chilling repercussions. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party o... | 21 | 224 |
Cold case secrets | Murder in Canaryville | The grandson and great-grandson of Chicago police officers, Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock was CPD through-and-through. His career had seen its share of twists and turns, from his time working undercover to thwart robberies on Chicago's L trains, to his side gig working security at The Jerry Springer Show, to ... | 21 | 225 |
Cold case secrets | Dangerous Waters | Determined to focus on work rather than books, as his father had, 12-year-old Patrick Waters leaves Belfast as a steward on the "Titanic," but the very wealthy Harry Widener arranges to tutor him, drawing Patrick into association with thieves seeking Harry's very rare edition of Francis Bacon's "Essays." | 21 | 226 |
Cold case secrets | Traces of Guilt (An Evie Blackwell Cold Case) | A Riveting Cold-Case Mystery from Dee Henderson Evie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois State Police detective . . . mostly. She's very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriage could work, considering the... | 21 | 227 |
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