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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A surgeon in California is arrested for vehicular manslaughter in a hit-and-run accident which killed two people. As he did not do it, he hires PI Ryan Chandler who discovers the surgeon was framed by a woman he fired from a hospital job. But how to prove this? A first novel.
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"Color frontispiece, profusely illustrated from drawings, paintings, photographs; text maps and map endpapers. Pictorial maroon cloth, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered. A history of the famous expedition, profusely illustrated from paintings by Karl Bodmer, George Catlin and Charles Russell, plus photographs and facsimiles, and 30 detailed drawings by Richard Schlecht. The author and his family retraced the Lewis and Clark trail to write this book...
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 2
Description
When a KGB mole hijacks DreamStar--a top-secret Navy fighter plane employing artificial intelligence in its cockpit--Major Patrick McLanahan is given the assignment to retrieve the precious machine.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. The ensuing fires that ravaged the city for days were responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,000 more. In all, 522 blocks and 28,188 buildings were leveled, and some 200,000 people dislocated. This watershed event in American history has never before been told with the richness of historical detail and...
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Pub. Date
c2005
Description
It is 1607. Aboard the "Susan Constant," Geoffry Payne is one of a group of intrepid adventurers seeking their fortunes in the mystical land of Virginia. Their tiny English fleet is on its way to establish a foothold in the New World, there to seek gold, silver, and pearls such as the Spanish found.The struggle to establish "James Fort" proves to be an arduous undertaking. When Captain John Smith finally takes control, he applies strict discipline...