Catalog Search Results
21) No one to trust
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trained by the military as an assassin, Elena Kyler is forced into a deadly alliance with Sean Galen, the most dangerous man she knows, when she is targeted for death by Rico Chavez, a charismatic, utterly ruthless killer with unlimited resources.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Retired U.S. Army sergeant Thaddeus McCallum joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency, where he makes enough money to purchase the ranch he's always wanted. But just as McCallum begins to settle in to his new life, he receives an urgent letter from a former comrade in arms whose son Jeff has gone missing. Despite his age and the aches and pains that go with it, Thad decides that he owes it to the man to help. Pedro Peralta, who ordinarily would be left...
Author
Series
The final strife volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
593 pages : color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simple, illustrated account of Paul Revere and his famous ride to warn the American colonists of the approach of British soldiers in the spring of 1775.
25) Black spire
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower--and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three, on a secluded world at the galaxy's edge. A planet of lush forests, precarious mountains, and towering, petrified trees, Batuu is on the furthest possible frontier of the galactic map, the last settled world before the mysterious...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's Days of Rage. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building,...
28) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble apartment. But now? Every day she lines up for bread that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. He grew up to be full of contradictions. in prison, he showed a passion for French literature, wrote flowery love letters,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 562 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland today. Although now largely forgotten outside Russia, Boris Savinkov was famous, and notorious, both at home and abroad during his lifetime, which spans the end of the Russian Empire and the establishment...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history of the United States during the period before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, especially focusing on the circumstances in colonial life that led Americans to fight for their independence from Britain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Ellas eran las cuatro hermanas Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas eran "las Mariposas," y en esta novela extraordinaria, Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, y Dede nos cuentan, a traves de las decadas, sus propias historias. Desde anecdotas sobre lazos para el pelo y secretos enamoramientos al contrabando...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A bilingual biography of José Martí, who dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty for all men and women, Includes author's note, afterword, and author's sources.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
597 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers ... One of the youngest signatories [of the Declaration of Independence] ... he was also, among stiff competition, one of the most visionary. A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the "American Hippocrates" for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine...
Author
Publisher
Disney · Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
75 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Hancock and Samuel Adams were an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hancock was young and dashing. Adams was old and stodgy. But working together, they rallied the people of Boston against the unfair policies of Great Britain and inspired American resistance. And to King George, they became a royal pain. When the British army began marching toward Lexington and Concord, sending Hancock and Adams fleeing into the woods, the two men couldn't help...
40) Firefall
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994.
Physical Desc
354 pages cm.
Language
English
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request