Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The companion volume to Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 1 carries more of the in-depth stories of aircraft crashes in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District. The history of flying is told by way of the crash sites, where to this day piles of rusting metal still exist.
3) Peak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the Time of Terror, friends turn against friends, patriots are betrayed, and lovers must pay the ultimate price.1793: British navy commander Nathan Peake patrols the English coast, looking for smugglers. Desperate for some real action, Peake gets his chance when France declares war on England and descends into the bloody madness of the Terror. Peake is entrusted with a mission to wreck the French economy by smuggling fake banknotes into Paris....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Captain Nathan Peake's adventures continue as he charts a perilous course into the dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There, he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history and their playmate, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Back at the helm of the Unicorn, Peake joins Captain Horatio Nelson, another young glory-seeker, in a bid to wreck Bonaparte's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Sheehan made serious waves with her much beloved runaway bestseller, Lost and Found. Now she treats readers to a sequel, Picture This-a story of rebirth and personal redemption that is as moving, funny, and heart-soaring as its predecessor.
Peaks Island, Maine vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and...
7) Tide of War
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the tide of war is on the rise, telling friend from foe is a dangerous proposition. It's 1794, and newly promoted Captain Nathan Peake is dispatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn, a ship with a tragic history of mutiny and murder. Indeed, her previous captain was found washed up in New Orleans with his throat cut, and the men who did it are still at large. But Peake has greater problems...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
�2014
Language
English
Description
Sadie Speers has been asked to act as a historical consultant for a TV series called American Treasure Chest. They are examining the story of a star-crossed love affair involving a prominent mining family that ended in a rumored murder more than fifty years ago. Along with the arrival of the film crew, a recently discovered skeleton in a nearby mine revives the old mystery and the town is abuzz with speculation. Sadie's granddaughter, Sara, joins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Known as Silver Peak's "Antique Lady", Sadie Speers loves owning and running her shop, the Antique Mine. When her high school sweetheart shows her an old wedding dress he found in his attic, Sadie guesses the dress belonged to her great aunt Rachel Wright, Silver Peak's famous runaway bride, who was assumed to have died in 1897. But that's not all Edwin reveals: there's a hole in the bodice of the dress and a pistol inscribed with the initials of...
Author
Series
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Deputy County Director of Pingjiang County suddenly died in the city villa swimming pool, who is the murderer? He Sen, secretary of the municipal party committee, personally supervised the city bureau to solve the case, but the case was complicated. What kind of story is hidden behind it?
11) Time will tell
Author
Series
Mysteries of Silver Peak volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Silver Peak reopens an abandoned rail line as the Mountain Crest Railroad, it kicks off a weeklong festival to celebrate the new tourist attraction ... Sadie Speers discovers a stunning antique pav�e diamond men's watch lodged behind her seat cushion. But when the train's lights go our momentarily, the watch vanishes. What happened? ..."--Page 4 of cover.
12) The edge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
13) Reunion dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sadie Speers is helping a local family restore a venerable old house to its original splendor. When her friend Ann arrives from California to help plan their upcoming high school reunion, Ann confides that she's actually there for something more : she's just learned that her DNA does not match her parents! As they consider the implications, a strange necklace slips out from Ann's collar. Sadie immediately recognizes the design as a match for a distinctive...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maggie Evans is back in Peak Town, Colorado to take over her grandmother's cupcake shop, but problems keep arising. Is it rotten luck...or something more nefarious? To top it off, her former best friend/childhood crush, Colton Denning, won't leave her alone. He's sexier than ever. But Maggie has no time for love. When his best friend comes back into town all grown up, Colton finds his feelings for her go far beyond friendship. Unfortunately, the pretty...
15) Peak Crosser
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In an ancient empire covered by a nearly impassable mountain range, factions within and without threaten to topple a thousand-year-old peace. The Empire's survival depends on the unknowing and unwitting.
Zornan is a simple man who works as a Peak Crosser carrying letters and small items amidst the empire's isolated valleys on his giant hawk. His idyllic life with his wife Calla and their daughters is shattered when a stranger frames him for murder....
Author
Series
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Deputy County Director of Pingjiang County suddenly died in the city villa swimming pool, who is the murderer? He Sen, secretary of the municipal party committee, personally supervised the city bureau to solve the case, but the case was complicated. What kind of story is hidden behind it?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.
A vastly layered, wide-ranging history that deepens the mysteries of the iconic town in ways that will thrill disciples of the original series, and will prep fans for the upcoming Showtime series like nothing else out there.
Four original TWIN PEAKS cast members- Kyle MacLachlan, Russ Tamblyn, Michael Horse, and David...
18) Winds of Folly
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A compelling new historical naval adventure from a master of maritime storytelling. 1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance with Britain against the French. He establishes a British naval presence, harrying the French corsairs that swarm out of Ancona in Italy and confronts the politics of "intrigue, poison and the stiletto" in Venice, but learns...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Assistant District Attorney Julie Ryder plans to hide out at her brother's ranch house in Peak Town, Colorado after a killer she put away escapes. Hoping for a little peace and quiet, what she gets instead is hot and bothered when she discovers the good sheriff is gone, and his sexy best friend is house-sitting. FBI agent Liam Graham is on medical leave after a career-jeopardizing injury. He's taking the time to rethink his professional choices while...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of the murder of her best friend, Kayla Jenkins is on the run for her life. She ends up lost in dark, snowy woods off some backcountry road in the middle of nowhere. Frightened and colder than she's ever been in her life, she almost thinks she's hallucinating when a warrior on a white steed saves her. In all his years as the sheriff of Peak Town, Colorado, Jake Ryder has never come across a half-frozen woman alone in the woods. She's...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request