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7641) Lie to me
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Amelia woke up in the hospital with bruises, broken bones, and a concussion, everybody insisted that she accidentally fell down the embankment and almost into the river; but Amelia cannot shake the feeling that she was pushed, especially since another young woman was found nearby, dead--and so, with the help of a new friend, Liam, and despite her best friend's reservations, she sets out to discover the truth, even though her search seems to be...
7642) The last dawn
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gladys Darío, sterling police lieutenant for the revolutionary Sandinista government in volatile 1986 Nicaragua, has been kidnapped by a notorious Contra commander. Gladys knows she doesn't have a hope for escape, unless her partner on the police force, former Sandinista guerrilla comandante Ajax Montoya, stages a rescue attempt. When he does, it's more outrageous than Gladys could ever have imagined. But it comes at a price. Ajax is imprisoned...
7643) Clean hands: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on the most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank that's been accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone-and the secret documents that were on it-she needs help. Badly. Enter ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when governments,...
7644) Mayhem & mass
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Los Angeles transplant, Sister Louise "Lou" LaSalle feels right at home in Briar Coast, New York. After all, her beloved nephew, Chris, works at the college founded by her congregation. But while Sister Lou has always played by the rules, she's about to have her faith in herself tested--by murder...Sister Lou expects some pushback when she invites her friend, Maurice Jordan, to be the guest speaker for the St. Hermione of Ephesus Feast Day presentation....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Michael Nava re-launched the Henry Rios mystery series by completely revising the first novel in the series, The Little Death, originally published in 1986, and re-titled the new book Lay Your Sleeping Head. Henry Rios, a gifted and humane lawyer driven to drink to by professional failure and personal demons, meets Hugh Paris, a charming junkie struggling to stay clean. Hugh tells him an improbable tale of long-ago murders in his wealthy...
7646) Dive smack
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that burned his life down: he lit the match. Sure, it was an accident. But the blaze killed his mom and set his dad on a path to self-destruction. Everything else about that fateful night is full of gaping holes in Theo's mind, for good reason. Maybe it's better that way. As captain of the Ellis Hollow diving team, with straight As and solid friends, he's only one semester away from securing...
7647) A long night in Paris
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
417 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an Israeli tech executive disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red at his side, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. And for Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police Force, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed--and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race...
7648) The third twin
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ava and Lexi, high school seniors and identical twins, created an imaginary triplet, Alicia, to date and dump boys but now they are being stalked and impersonated by the sister they invented and their former dates are turning up dead.
7649) Surrender your sons
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Connor Major and other queer teens trapped at a conversion therapy camp work together to escape--and expose the camp's horrible truths"--
7650) I am Margaret Moore
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A year ago at the elite Marshall Summer Naval School, Margaret Moore presumably drowned herself from heartbreak, but this summer, the remaining girls from Deck Five will ensure Margaret's story is heard.
Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger. Each summer Margaret...
7651) The Paris notebook
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
595 pages (large print); 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler. . . The notes in his possession declare Hitler unfit for office - a secret that could destroy the Führer's reputation, and change the course...
7652) La gran estafa
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a humid summer day in Alabama, a mayor's wife turns up brutally murdered under a railroad bridge. Standing next to her body is fourteen-year-old Mason Hill, the autistic son of former Miss USA Genevieve Hill. The locals are quick to level their verdict on young Mason: he did it. The town detective calls in local autism expert Casey Walker to consult on the case. At first, Casey tries to keep an open mind. But the more time she spends with Genevieve,...
7654) Execution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Giordano Bruno, a heretic turned spy, arrives in England with shocking information for spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place. Bruno is surprised to find that Walsingham is aware of the plot--led by the young, wealthy noble Anthony Babington--and is allowing it to progress. He hopes that Mary will put her...
7655) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While overseas fighting in the Afghan war, U.S. Army soldier Coop - a man haunted by the things he has seen and done in the war - is told that his wife has been killed back home in the States. The ticking of the clock begins as Coop is given a brief leave to attend to his wife's affairs. But while back in New York City, Coop discovers his wife's death was far more suspicious than anyone told him. He decides to go AWOL, using his military training...
7657) Escape velocity
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 415 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
7658) The enemy above
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
Author
Series
Burning glass volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Civil war is on the horizon, and Sonya is helpless to stop it. With her empathic powers gone, she can no longer protect her beloved Anton from his vindictive brother Valko, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge and reclaim his throne. Even if that means using an Auraseer to hunt--and kill--both Sonya and Anton. Then Sonya hears about an empath in a far-off kingdom who may be able to heal her--but without her powers, finding the legendary Auraseer...
7660) Dead of Winter
Author
Series
Jeremey Winter volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How far will he go to have his revenge? When the fingers of dead women start showing up in the Supreme Court's mail, ex-FBI Agent Jeremy Winter is brought back to the Bureau to aid in the investigation. Agent Maggie Keeley, his girlfriend and now boss, leads the search for the serial killer. Together, Jeremy and Maggie learn the five remaining cities on the murderer's list, but they have no idea when the killer will strike or whom he will target....
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