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Leo Waterman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hearing a dying stranger call you by name would leave anyone full of questions. When it happens to private eye Leo Waterman, the more he learns about the late lottery winner's rags-to-riches-to-ruination life, the more he wants not just answers but justice. That means a road trip to Idaho to find out how a good-hearted young man with millions got skinned -- in more ways than one. It's all downhill from there as Leo gets roped into an ugly battle between...
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English
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The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it is an intense and moving examination of loss and the possibilities of redemption, in which Tolstoy explores the dichotomy between the artificial and the authentic life.
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English
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It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as new readers. "The Forged Coupon" traces how an act of deception leads to both murder and redemption. "After the Dance" depicts an army deserter's punishment...
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Leo Maxwell mysteries volume 4
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English
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In Panther's Prey, the latest novel from Shamus Award winner Lachlan Smith, tragedy once again strikes near the heart for lawyer-detective Leo Maxwell. After working to free his father from prison in Fox Is Framed, Leo has now left private practice and is working as a public defender in San Francisco. He and his co-counsel Jordan Walker are in the midst of trial, brilliantly defending Randall Rodrigues, a mentally ill homeless man whom they contend...
Author
Series
Leo Waterman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An old friend asks Leo to find the reason behind his son's death. So Waterman and his Irregulars, an assortment of Seattle street people, pick up the paper trail that leads them to a small town with a huge secret. From Seattle to Wisconsin, the puzzle twists and turns, tangling the present with a past so tragic that the final truth will leave readers gasping.
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Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
For years Leo Waterman eked out a meager living as a PI in Seattle. But when Rebecca, the love of his life, dumped him to marry someone else, Leo retires. Until one day he learns that Rebecca has vanished and no one can locate her. Together with a motley crew of homeless drunks and reprobates, Leo sets out to find Rebecca. He follows her trail from the streets of Seattle to the great North Woods. Rebecca's new husband's lies cast Leo into the path...
9) Tolstoy
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life and sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works mirrored his life. Wilson instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia. Illustrations.
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English
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Leo Durocher (1906-1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or manager for some of the greatest teams and defining baseball moments of the twentieth century....
Author
Series
Leo Waterman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A feud between two steakhouse chains in Seattle leads to the murder of a food critic. Police suspect private eye Leo Waterman because he was in the employ of one of the parties, and to clear his name Waterman must find the real killer.
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Series
Leo Waterman mysteries volume 3
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English
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When a homeless woman says she's the mother of a deceased rock idol, sometimes private eye Leo Waterman takes it upon himself to investigate the her claim. With the help of "the Boys," a band of dissolute deputies, Leo begins a life-threatening pursuit of the truth nobody wants to hear.
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English
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"A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2012
Language
English
Description
Leo Waterman was born and bred in Seattle, Washington, and his father had contacts that ranged from the highest offices to the lowest dives. Those contacts are useful in Leo's pursuit of a profession as a private investigator. Of course, as a not-completely-rehabilitated hippie, Leo does go about things his own way. His best legmen (and women) are folks he knows from the kinds of bars the tourist board doesn't acknowledge, and they live wherever they...
19) The tenth planet
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The exciting first novel in a new series that blends the blockbuster thrills of an alien invasion adventure and state-of-the-art astronomical detail. Mankind has just discovered that a tenth planet exists in the solar system. And soon it will also discover that the planet's hibernating inhabitants emerge every 800 years to harvest a new supply of food from Earth.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us,...
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