Ralph Cosham
1) Still life
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English
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec is called to a tiny hamlet south of Montreal to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of a local fixture in the village.
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2014.
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English
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A neighbor's missing artist husband pulls reluctant, retired ex-Chief Inspector of Homicide Armand Gamache down a winding path to the twisted truth. Gamache, his old second-in-command, and Myrna Landers soon follow a desperate artist's dark attempts to recapture the old fame he once enjoyed, journeying to the St. Lawrence River as they discover the desolate, disturbing portrait of a man with a blackened soul. Chief Inspector Gamache novel series,...
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English
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An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...
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In this classic drawing room mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. As Gamache's holiday becomes a busman's anniversary, he learns that the seemingly peaceful lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their past, until that past catches up with them.
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Macmillan Audio
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English
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When a peaceful monastery in Québec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sãurete du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Christmas is approaching, and in Qub̌ec its a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasnt spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message...
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Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies - exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness. (Bestseller).
13) Watership Down
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. "Watership Down" is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival against the odds.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume...
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.
18) In the frame
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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An artist solves a mystery.
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InAudio
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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This book is a collection of eight short stories written by H. G. Wells. 'The Short Stories of H. G. Wells' constitutes a must-read for lovers of the short storm form and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' fantastic work. The stories include: 'The Time Machine', 'The Empire of the Ants', 'A Vision of Judgement', 'The Land Ironclads', The Beautiful Suit', 'The Door in the Wall', 'The Pearl of Love', and 'The Country of the Blind'. Includes a specially...
20) The plague dogs
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.
After being horribly mistreated at a government animal-research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation—and terror—of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call "the tod," the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the
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