Martin Williams
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
On 12/26/04 a series of tidal waves killed thousands and devastated communities around the Indian Ocean. With around 100 tsunamis striking the world's coastlines each decade, Nova investigates what made the recent event so powerful and catastrophic.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Microscopic filmmaking, advanced medical technology, and state-of-the-art cardiac tomography imaging techniques are used to reveal unique perspectives on how our bodies function, grow, and mature from infancy through puberty, adulthood, and old age.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, go on a treasure hunt through time. They are hunting for a stolen copy of a draft of the Constitution. This draft has marginal notes on it that spells out the intentions of the founders of the Constitution. The lost Constitution could change the history of America, and it must be found before the wrong people find it and destroy it.
12) Cape Cod
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Two families, both carried by the Mayflower across stormy seas... both destined to generations of proud leadership, shameful intrigue, and passion for the sandy crest of land that became their heritage...
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a Bigelow...
13) December '41
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author William Martin comes a WWII thriller as intense as The Day of the Jackal and as gripping as The Eye of the Needle. In December '41, Martin takes us on the ultimate manhunt, a desperate chase from Los Angeles to Washington, D. C., in the first weeks of the Second World War. On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1916.
Irish immigrant Tom Tracy has nearly everything he's ever wanted-a promising political career as an aide to the city's mayor and the love of a beautiful woman, Rachel Levka. When his lusty cousin, Padraic Starr, arrives from Galway on a mission for the Irish rebellion, Tom's world unravels.
Padraic convinces Tom to return to his homeland to join the cause and avenge his father's death. Padraic's convictions also inspire Rachel, a fervent...
18) Back Bay
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
"When the Golden Eagle tea set given to George Washington mysteriously disappears in 1814, there is reason to suspect Horace Taylor Pratt, the founding father of a family cursed with a legacy of unaccountable deaths and outright murders that continues foreight generations." --