Paul Collins
1) The murder of the century: the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars
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Language
English
Description
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 484 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth, of the emergence of our civilization...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
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English
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In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic. Waging a fierce battle for its uncertain future were two political parties: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached, their animosity reached a crescendo. But everything...
5) Taekwondo
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Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
6) Ninjutsu
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages
Language
English
7) Samurai
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages
Language
English
9) Peter Pan
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fantastic adventures await Wendy Darling and her brothers when Peter Pan whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land.
10) The burning sea
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Series
Warlock's child volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
iv, 101 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
There is no lower rank than cabin boy on the warship Invincible. But Dantar knows he is important, because anyone who threatens his life is turned into a pile of ash. His older sister Velza is a shapecasting warrior, in a world where only men fight. Until now. Together they must solve the mystery of the broken magic and escape the dragon.
11) The iron claw
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Series
Warlock's child volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
iv, 99 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The warlock Calbaras wants to revive the ancient, forbidden magic of dragons, and his son Dantar is vital to his plans. Dantar is on the run in an enemy kingdom, unaware that he is so important. Worse, his sister Velza is now working for the enemy king.
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Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
ii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ming Lee - The Chinese Dragon - is the unbeaten, undisputed queen of virtual martial arts. Until she meets James Gong, fresh from his starring role in Ham Solo: Revenge of the Fist. Can their combined skill, grace and teamwork defeat everything the virtso world throws at them? Do they take down the mobsters? The bully? And just where does 'the gymnast' fit into all of this?
14) Peter Pan
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Wendy and her brothers embark on fantastic adventures with the hero of their bedtime stories, Peter Pan! With faith, trust and Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter teaches them how to fly and leads them to the "second star to the right" and beyond, to Never Land!
15) Peter Pan
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wendy and her brothers embark on fantastic adventures with the hero of their bedtime stories, Peter Pan! With faith, trust and Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter teaches them how to fly and leads them to the second star to the right and beyond, to Never Land!
16) Peter Pan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.
17) Peter Pan
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Wendy and her brothers embark on fantastic adventures with the hero of their bedtime stories, Peter Pan! With faith, trust and Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter teaches them how to fly and leads them to the "second star to the right" and beyond, to Never Land!
18) The breed
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent and his synthetic-blood sucking vampire partner are assigned to track down a renegade human-blood sucking vampire who is determined to trigger a war between the "breeds". Neither men easily fits into the other's world and they must work together in order to restore harmony.
19) Drive Hard
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Language
English
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A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
20) Stratton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a high-stakes M16 mission to intercept deadly biochemical weapons goes spectacularly wrong, special operative Stratton must face the threat of a former Soviet operative who resurfaces after being presumed dead for two decades. It is believed that the rogue operative plans to take revenge on his former paymasters with stolen chemical weapons, and Stratton and his agents must race against time to stop the unimaginable from happening.