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Author
Series
A Bess Crawford mystery volume Book 9
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Pacific War came to a violent and sudden end with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While scholars continue to debate what finally induced Japanese Emperor Hirohito to surrender, there is no doubt the atomic age opened a new era in history. See these events through the eyes of Japanese citizens.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404, 12 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a man who may have been a casualty of a prank gone wrong, detective Jim Clemo is embroiled in a public debate surrounding the victim and his best friend, a Somali refugee who is unwilling or unable to reveal what happened.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York, where he reunites with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham. As the worst act of terror since 9/11 strikes the city, a name on the casualty list rocks Dylan's world. Is his secret past about to be brought to light? As the terrorist attack unfolds, Elizabeth Needham does something courageous that thrusts her into the media...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a latest arson fire in Washington, D.C. results in a casualty, special agent Maggie O'Dell disregards profiler theories to pursue her own suspicions and is targeted by a reporter who digs up aspects of Maggie's private life.
Author
Series
Crimson Lake volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rain forest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from Claire's devastated father. Dale Bingley has a brutal revenge plan all worked out -- and if Ted doesn't help find the real abductor, he'll be its first casualty. Meanwhile, in a dark roadside hovel called the Barking Frog Inn, the bodies of...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The second round of the ultimate battle royale begins here, as the world's greatest superheroes are forced to fight each other to the death in a mysterious, otherworldly prison. The mysteries grow deeper and the casualty list grows longer as DEATHMATCH continues.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Pacific Islanders serve in the U.S. military in disproportionally high numbers, and have suffered the highest casualty rates in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The men and women of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, are American citizens and serve in our country's military at a rate three times higher than the rest of the country. Learn why the island's returning veterans say they can't get the healthcare they need.
10) Code 45 #4
Publisher
Scout Comics
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After her attack, Vanessa's dragon hunting sees her taking incredible risks, putting herself and others in danger as she relentlessly collects evidence to expose the truth about Code 45. After she finally goes too far she's suspended from her driving duties, but defies her supervisor for one last tunnel dive in search of a missing Nikki, the latest "Code 45" casualty.
11) Deathmatch #5
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
BRAND NEW ARC! PERFECT JUMPING-ON POINT FOR NEW READERS! The second round of the ultimate deathmatch begins here -- which fan-favorite characters are on a collision course, and what does last month's shocking reveal mean for The Rat and Manchurian? The mysteries grow deeper and the casualty list grows longer as DEATHMATCH continues!
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The SPECTRE Civil War reaches its explosive conclusion! Who will come out on top, the established Ernst Stavro Blofeld or the upstart Titania Jones? Either way, will James Bond -- and the world -- survive? Can 007 use this war to bring SPECTRE down from within...or will he end up just one more casualty?
13) The Messenger
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In his first leading role, Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. ..When he finds himself drawn to Olivia...
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The Monsters have escaped Solomon Kane's prison but he has planned one step ahead. Kane has taken the one thing most valuable to Bigfoot, his family. A battle in a cave leads to the monster's first casualty which only fuels Zaya's fire and sends the team running right back in the direction from which they came, toward Kane. This time they're not running for their lives, they're running straight for a fight.
15) Forte
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Flavia Antunes grew up in a favela. Her father was a casualty of gang warfare; her mother, a cleaning lady, is all she has left. That is, until she meets Mr. Lima, a wealthy old man who introduces her to her future: the piano. Music will take her far from home, all the way to a prestigious Paris conservatory. Being a foreign student is hard: low-paying jobs, prejudiced landlords, competitive peers. But Paris also has its perks, like love, friendship,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members of the traditional community of Akwesasne on the U.S./Canada border.. Together, they undertake a four-year rite of passage for adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or "under the husk." The ceremony had been nearly extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past decade...
17) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
18) The 20th victim
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Episode six begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia. In 30 days, the two armies lose more men than both sides have lost in three years of war. With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, we visit the ghastly hospitals north and south and follow General Sherman's...
20) Killer Queens
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
They put the SASS in ASSASSIN! Meet Max & Alex. Reformed intergalactic assassins-for-hire. On the run. Also super gay. Their former bossa fluffy monkey with a jetpackis hot on their tail to take back his stolen ship. They gotta eat (tacos preferably), so they take a mission from Alex's old flame. Your standard no-kill, casualty-free kidnapping recovery from a nearby moon. Only complication? Half the moon is ruled by a fascist dictator hostile to foreigners....