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  • The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War

    by James C. Burke ...
    In its early years, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company survived multiple threats to its existence. Under its new corporate name, the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Company would soon be put to the ultimate test, the Civil War. From mobilization to the last effort to supply Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the company would endure the wearing out of its equipment and rails; the capriciousness ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Day the Universe Changed

    by James Burke ...
    The companion volume for the award-winning PBS and BBC series from "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world" ( The Washington Post).The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Heaven's Prisoners

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life—and with her comes a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Connections

    by James Burke ...
    Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies?In this highly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Black Cherry Blues

    A Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife — but he can't escape his past forever.Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he's trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Burning Angel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    From the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novel featuring the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a murder before more blood is shed.The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry—the girlfriend ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Neon Rain

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes his definitive, must-read first title in his famous Dectective David Robicheaux series.New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux haunts the intense and heady French Quarter—the place he calls home, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sunset Limited

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series Book 10 - Dave Robicheaux
    “One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain NewsThe townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn’t crucify Megan Flynn’s father. They just didn’t catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails.Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dixie City Jam

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office has known of its existence since childhood, when he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The New Iberia Blues

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    Named one of the best crime novels of the year by The New York Times Book Review.The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this New York Times bestselling crime novel from “modern master” (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke.D... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clete

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series Book 24 - Dave Robicheaux
    In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave’s partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drugClete Purcel – private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Connections

    The Founding Fathers. Networked.

    by James Burke ...
    Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood ... Read more

    $15.99 USD