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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer―the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace―including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos,...
22) Sidney Crosby
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This inspirational book reveals how Sidney Crosby has skated his way straight to the top of hockey from a very young age. Just 19 when the Pittsburgh Penguins named him captain, "Sid the Kid" went on to lead his team to three Stanley Cup championships. He became the youngest player in National Hockey League history to reach 200 points, too. Sidney holds two Olympic gold medals and several MVP awards. Already considered one of the all-time greats,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
I don't regret what I've done. The lives I've saved or the ones I've taken. But it's time for a new life plan: stay out of trouble. I'm going to sit on the beach, run with my dog, and avoid responsibility. You know what they say about the best laid plans. I'm enjoying my down time in India, eating great food, exploring with Dan—my laid back, no worries guy—when trouble finds me. I won't allow a woman to be hurt when I can stop it. I have to help...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state, a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But as Geordie knows, every Eden has its snakes. Will's faith will be tested as he and Geordie are reminded that there's darkness lurking in their corner of Cambridgeshire.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-sixteenth century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the seventeenth century to publish a book of original poetry, which offered...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption at the highest levels throughout the 1920s. One century later, in the face of contemporary society’s divisiveness and fearmongering politics, the personal courage of this maverick’s battle against underworld figures and a mainstream white supremacist...