Michael, Paul

The last Dickens : a novel by Matthew Pearl( Recording )

14 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Boston, 1870. When James Osgood receives word that literary master Charles Dickens has passed, he sends his clerk Daniel Sand to retrieve the author's final, yet unfinished novel with hopes that the book will resuscitate his failing publishing company, Fields & Osgood. However, when Sand turns up dead with the manuscript missing, Osgood, along with Sand's older sister Rebecca, travel to England to capture the killer and fetch Dickens' elusive novel

The lost symbol : [a novel] by Dan Brown( )

10 editions published in 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'The Lost Symbol' accelerates through a startling landscape. As the story opens, Havard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation, one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets and hidden history

The Great American movie book by Paul Michael( Book )

4 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A guide to over 1,000 movies of the sound era including the cast list, production credits, and a list of Oscar winning films from 1927-1978

Icebound by Dean R Koontz( Recording )

11 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer

Angel time : a novel by Anne Rice( )

5 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Toby O'Dare, a contract killer of underground fame is on assignment to kill once again. Into O'Dare's nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O'Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and violence, seizes his chance

The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp by Richard Yancey( Recording )

12 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil

The third secret : [a novel of suspense] by Steve Berry( )

9 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fatima, Portugal, 1917. The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words or if a message far more important has been left in the shadows. Vatican City, present day, Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, Pope Clement XV enters the Vatican's Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Church's most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Pope's distress stems from the revelations of Fatima. Equally concerned, but not out of any sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement at the last conclave. Now the Pope's interest in Fatima threatens to uncover a shocking ancient truth that Valendrea has kept to himself for many years. When Pope Clement sends Michener to the Romanian highlands, then to a Bosnian holy site, in search of a priest, possibly one of the last people on Earth who knows Mary's true message, a perilous set of events unfolds. Michener finds himself embroiled in murder, suspicion, suicide, deceit, and his forbidden passion for a beloved woman. In a desperate search for answers, he travels to Pope Clement's birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima may dictate the very fate of the Church, a fate now lying in Michener's own hands

River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard( Recording )

9 editions published between 2005 and 2012 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The river of doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The river of doubt - it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Cãandido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever

The American movies : the history, films, awards : a pictorial encyclopedia by Paul Michael( Book )

22 editions published between 1969 and 1974 in English and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Divided into three sections--The history, The films, and The awards--this book gives a broad view of over 1,000 American sound films, including casts, credits, and key awards of the motion picture industry

Mountains beyond mountains by Tracy Kidder( Recording )

10 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and held by 348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of several bestsellers. He has been described by the Baltimore sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring audiobook shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains beyond mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer - brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti - blasts through convention to get results