William Dufris
61) The Stray Dog
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Description
A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Mysteries according to Humphrey (Book 8): Mrs. Brisbane is missing! She just didn't show up in Room 26 one morning. The class has a substitute teacher, called Mr. E., but he's no Mrs. Brisbane. Humphrey has just learned about Sherlock Holmes, so he vows to be just as smart about collecting clues and following leads to solve the mystery of Mrs. Brisbane.
Winter according to Humphrey (Book 9): The holidays are coming and Humphrey is unsqueakably excited....
63) Executive Intent
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Scoop the disco digger": Scoop is busy helping Bob and doesn't have time to learn to dance for a special dance display. "Spud's statue": Bob is busy building a pavilion for the flower show where a new statue will be unveiled. "Skip's big idea": Scoop suggests renovating the Old Mill for an art exhibition prompting Skip to come up with an idea of his own. "Muck's surprise": Mr. Bentley asks Bob to build a summer house so he can surprise Mrs. Bentley...
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
Here are two exciting adventures from the pen of the Louis L'Amour. In “Trap of Gold, Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color, in a crumbling granite upthrust with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the rocks are unstable, and taking out the quartz might just bring the whole thing tumbling down. In “Trail to Pie Town,” Dusty Barron rode his stallion at full gallop out of...
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
When John Carter discovers that his beloved wife, Dejah, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, he is desperate to rescue her. However, the prison, which slowly rotates, is only opened once a Barsoomian year. As Dejah's prison sentence drags on for over a hundred days, the window of opportunity is narrowing for Carter to save her. Amid social and political unrest from the last war, the Thern had appointed a new leader, but many still believed...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Meet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave. What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They're all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radar's been "on the snuke" since childhood, but he's still looking for his California Roll, the one big...
71) What's so funny?
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Series
Dortmunder novels volume 13
Description
Tempted to find a highly valuable, seven-hundred-pound chess set, hapless crook John Dortmunder musters his merry band of fellow ne'er-do-wells on a haphazard treasure hunt that prompts his investigation of Russia's last czar.
72) The letter
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Christmas box trilogy volume 2
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A letter left on his daughter's grave sends a man searching for his mother who abandoned him in childhood. For David Parkins, it's a chance at happiness, his wife having just left him. A sentimental tale set in 1930s Salt Lake City.
73) The road to ruin
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Dortmunder novels volume 11
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Having set up a con on Monroe Hall, a fabulously wealthy and corrupt CEO, John Dortmunder and his hapless gang of crooks suddenly find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between their would-be mark Hall and his own victims.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities...
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Series
Calder saga volume 7
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Chase Calder regains consciousness not knowing who he is but sure that someone tried to kill him. A mysterious and charismatic cowboy named Laredo rescues Chase and with the help of his friend,Hattie, nurses him back to health. Laredo does a little snooping and soon figures out that the amnesia victim he's caring for is one of the richest, most powerful ranchers in Montana.
77) The unsung hero
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Troubleshooters volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
After a near-fatal head injury, navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England home town. When he calls for help, the navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings.
78) The live show!
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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Bob, Wendy, and Spud transform a junkyard into a bandstand in the park and sing and dance live.
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Description
U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. McLanahan tries to get his superiors to pay attention and is ignored. Russian president General Anatoliy Gryzlov is determined to punish McLanahan and his fleet of robotic warplanes for...