Charles Moore
1) Ace Wonder
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When boy detective Ace Wonder seeks inspiration for his next novel, he stumbles upon a family mystery of corporate espionage, scientific discovery, and murder.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all of Mrs. Thatcherâs private and government papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank in interviews that we feel we are eavesdropping on their conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs. Thatcherâs shoulder as she vigorously annotates documents and as she articulates her views in detail, and we understand for the first time how closely she relied on a handful of...
4) Plastic ocean: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
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Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast oceanic "desert" where winds are slack, Moore realized his ship was skimming through a plastic soup. He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet, soon to be dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--where plastic outweighs...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"This third and climactic volume (1987-2013) of Charles Moore's authorized biography gives the definitive account of Margaret Thatcher's third term in office and her life after it. Three stories run through the whole book. The first is Mrs. Thatcher's dominance of her government in almost every domestic field, but also her growing intolerance of dissent, the increasing alienation of her most senior ministers over Europe and the fatal corrosion that...
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
During an attempted robbery at the treasury building, Dean (Eric Roberts) finds himself pitted against former co-worker Quentin (J©ơrgen Prochnow) who is bent on stealing U.S. currency engraving plates. When Dean foils the getaway, two earthshaking explosions rock the high rise, trapping the robbers and a group of tourists inside. Dean tries to save the victims while keeping his foe at bay.