David Liss
Author
Series
Benjamin Weaver novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
While investigating the mysterious death of his estranged father, Benjamin Weaver encounters bitter family members, a desperate prostitute, and powerful men in the world of British finance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Returning to mid-eighteenth-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the prot©♭g©♭ of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver, stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
In a sweltering trailer park in rural Florida, Lem Altick is peddling encyclopedias to pay for college. Then, before his eyes, a couple of potential customers are shot dead. The killer, the strangely charismatic Melford Kean, has struck without remorse and with remarkable good cheer. But the self-styled "ethical assassin" hadn't planned on a witness, and so he makes Lem a deal: Stay quiet and there will be no problems. Go to the police and take the...
Author
Series
Benjamin Weaver novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London's most notorious prison, benjamin Weaver must face another challenge: how to prove himself innocent of a crime when the corrupt courts have already shown they want only to see him hang.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On the world's first commodities exchange in Amsterdam, 1659 - a mysterious world of trade populated by schemes and rogues, where deception rules the day, Miguel Lienzo has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. He enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who pitches the newest commodity: coffee.
6) Randoms
Author
Series
Randoms volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A conspiracy that threatens to topple the fledgling banking system of the post-Revolutionary War United States, brings together Ethan Saunders and Joan Maycott on opposing sides, with the outcome that will forever change their new country hanging in the balance.
8) Rebels
Author
Series
Randoms volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Zeke returns to space to go on a secret mission for the director of the Confederation of United Planets, chaos ensues.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.
Author
Series
Benjamin Weaver novels volume 3
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Set in 1700s London. When Benjamin Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from the ruthless British East India Company, he soon discovers the theft of trade secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the eighteenth century's most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government...
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Four terror-inducing novellas from acclaimed bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Christopher Golden, and Jonathan Maberry beginning with the premise: "A stranger comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead--for a price." In Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children," an acute diphtheria outbreak kills most of the children in an isolated village in nineteen-century Ontario. Then a stranger arrives and...