Friday, April 09, 2004
AUTHOR Robinson, Peter, 1950-
TITLE Playing with fire [sound recording] / by Peter Robinson.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004.
DESCRIPT 12 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
NOTE In container (17 cm.)
"An Inspector Banks Novel"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Narrated by Ron Keith.
SUMMARY Two barges moored side-by-side in a canal are destroyed by fire,
and Banks knows the devastating blaze is no accident. On board
one barge, a young junkie girl perishes. On board the other,
an odd and secretive artist is burned beyond recognition. Not
long after, another raging inferno engulfs a trailer and its
occupant. Before the body count can climb any higher, Banks
must determine whether he's dealing with a serial arsonist or
with a far more devious individual who is lighting fires to
incinerate evidence of further crimes.
NOTE Compact disc.
SUBJECT Banks, Alan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Police -- England -- Yorkshire -- Fiction.
Books on CD.
Audiobooks.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Arson -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ALT AUTHOR Keith, Ron, Narrator.
ISBN 1402575483.
MUSIC # C2541 Recorded Books.
AUTHOR Harris, Robert, 1957-
TITLE Pompeii [sound recording] / Robert Harris.
Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (November 18, 2003)
ISBN: 0739307894
NOTE Read by Michael Cumpsty (Reader).
Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction.
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
Aqueducts -- Fiction.
Engineers -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Book Description
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.
Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Only one man is worried. The engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’s sixty-mile main line -- somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius the Aquarius -- decent, practical, incorruptible -- promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he heads out towards Vesuvius he is about to discover there are forces that even the world’s only superpower can’t control.
Pompeii recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, it offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School--With detailed examination of time, place, and circumstance, Harris brings to life first-century Pompeii and its surroundings. Vesuvius, a sleeping giant, towers over the Bay of Naples while the citizenry frets over a drought that is threatening the water supply. Marcus Attilius Primus, the new chief engineer for the huge aqueduct that supplies the area, is summoned by Corelia, beautiful daughter of the powerful and corrupt Ampliatus, to investigate a fish kill in their villa's pool, fed by the aqueduct. Attilius discovers that the bay's water supply is diminishing rapidly and is contaminated with sulfur. Youthful, upright Attilius vows to Pliny, famous scholar and admiral in charge of the huge fleet based there, to repair the damaged aqueduct in two days. Meanwhile, tremors are felt in Pompeii, and the populace fears that the god Vulcan is angry and may send another earthquake, such as occurred 17 years earlier.
Attilius is successful, but the air, now filled with a fine gray dust, begins to rain pumice, and Vesuvius unleashes its fury. As the populace flees, he turns back to rescue Corelia, trapped in Pompeii, and the aqueduct he knows so well becomes their salvation. This story of a corrupt, violent society focused on its own pleasure, set against the fascinating history of a familiar catastrophe, makes for a compelling drama.--Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
AUTHOR Rankin, Ian.
TITLE Resurrection men / Ian Rankin.
IMPRINT London : Orion, 2001.
DESCRIPT 440 p. ; 24 cm.
SERIES The Inspector Rebus series.
Rankin, Ian. Inspector Rebus novel series.
SUBJECT Rebus, Inspector (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0752821318.
0752847066.
Book Description
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now
Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects. When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer's murder is tied to Rebus's inquiry, the two-protoge and mentor-join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined-a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.
With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name "the Dickens of Edinburgh," Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.
TITLE Playing with fire [sound recording] / by Peter Robinson.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004.
DESCRIPT 12 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
NOTE In container (17 cm.)
"An Inspector Banks Novel"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Narrated by Ron Keith.
SUMMARY Two barges moored side-by-side in a canal are destroyed by fire,
and Banks knows the devastating blaze is no accident. On board
one barge, a young junkie girl perishes. On board the other,
an odd and secretive artist is burned beyond recognition. Not
long after, another raging inferno engulfs a trailer and its
occupant. Before the body count can climb any higher, Banks
must determine whether he's dealing with a serial arsonist or
with a far more devious individual who is lighting fires to
incinerate evidence of further crimes.
NOTE Compact disc.
SUBJECT Banks, Alan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Police -- England -- Yorkshire -- Fiction.
Books on CD.
Audiobooks.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Arson -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ALT AUTHOR Keith, Ron, Narrator.
ISBN 1402575483.
MUSIC # C2541 Recorded Books.
AUTHOR Harris, Robert, 1957-
TITLE Pompeii [sound recording] / Robert Harris.
Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (November 18, 2003)
ISBN: 0739307894
NOTE Read by Michael Cumpsty (Reader).
Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction.
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
Aqueducts -- Fiction.
Engineers -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Book Description
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.
Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Only one man is worried. The engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’s sixty-mile main line -- somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Attilius the Aquarius -- decent, practical, incorruptible -- promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he heads out towards Vesuvius he is about to discover there are forces that even the world’s only superpower can’t control.
Pompeii recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, it offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School--With detailed examination of time, place, and circumstance, Harris brings to life first-century Pompeii and its surroundings. Vesuvius, a sleeping giant, towers over the Bay of Naples while the citizenry frets over a drought that is threatening the water supply. Marcus Attilius Primus, the new chief engineer for the huge aqueduct that supplies the area, is summoned by Corelia, beautiful daughter of the powerful and corrupt Ampliatus, to investigate a fish kill in their villa's pool, fed by the aqueduct. Attilius discovers that the bay's water supply is diminishing rapidly and is contaminated with sulfur. Youthful, upright Attilius vows to Pliny, famous scholar and admiral in charge of the huge fleet based there, to repair the damaged aqueduct in two days. Meanwhile, tremors are felt in Pompeii, and the populace fears that the god Vulcan is angry and may send another earthquake, such as occurred 17 years earlier.
Attilius is successful, but the air, now filled with a fine gray dust, begins to rain pumice, and Vesuvius unleashes its fury. As the populace flees, he turns back to rescue Corelia, trapped in Pompeii, and the aqueduct he knows so well becomes their salvation. This story of a corrupt, violent society focused on its own pleasure, set against the fascinating history of a familiar catastrophe, makes for a compelling drama.--Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
AUTHOR Rankin, Ian.
TITLE Resurrection men / Ian Rankin.
IMPRINT London : Orion, 2001.
DESCRIPT 440 p. ; 24 cm.
SERIES The Inspector Rebus series.
Rankin, Ian. Inspector Rebus novel series.
SUBJECT Rebus, Inspector (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0752821318.
0752847066.
Book Description
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now
Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects. When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer's murder is tied to Rebus's inquiry, the two-protoge and mentor-join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined-a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.
With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name "the Dickens of Edinburgh," Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.
