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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in...
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told...until now. It was a cool, quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses--including the prolific stallion Alydar--had settled into their stalls for the evening. Alton Stone, filling in for the regular night watchman, completed his rounds at the barn. Although nothing...
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Language
English
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Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks--with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being 'trigger-happy.' he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective's assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary....
Author
Series
Whodunit Detective Agency volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
68 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a night watchman claims that he saw the mummy at the art museum walking around on the same night a valuable painting was stolen, Jerry and Maya are summoned by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the spooky mystery.
26) Trolled
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ned Thump is a seven-foot troll who is made fun of for his love of words so he escapes from the Enchanted Realm to the human world and secretly becomes a night watchman at Grand Central Terminal.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 145
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
lv, 503 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
31) Christmas guitar
Author
Publisher
Musical Heritage Society
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (54 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Series
Tabula Rasa volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 180 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design....
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks, with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being "trigger-happy," he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective's assistant, helping Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it's...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories--Indonesian literature's characteristic form--to be translated into English. A man captures a caronang, a strange, intelligent dog that walks upright, and brings it home, only to provoke...
37) Mischief night
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the night before Halloween, young Kaylie is at work babysitting when she's warned by a local night watchman not to answer the door, because nothing good can happen on mischief night. Soon, Kaylie realizes someone is stalking her. But on Mischief Night, nothing is as it seems. They say, danger is on the other side of the door. But they never said which side of the door you're on.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A criminology student who works as a night watchman in a wax museum manages to bring to life an exhibit of legendary monsters. Now that Dracula, The Werewolf, and Frankenstein are alive, they are determined to make up for their past misdeeds and become a squad of crime fighting monsters.
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