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15821) Mainely fear
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
15822) Mr. Monk gets on board
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Of all the things that make Adrian Monk uneasy, change ranks high on the list. So when Natalie completes her P.I. license--and technically becomes Monk's boss--it's not easy for him to accept. Nor can he accept Natalie attending a business seminar at sea without him, even if it means spending a week with her on a cruise ship. Between choppy waters and obnoxious kids, Monk finds himself in a perfect storm of anxiety. Luckily, Mariah, the cruise director,...
15823) The eloquence of blood
Author
Series
Charles du Luc mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Ex-soldier and Jesuit Charles du Luc investigates the 1686 murder of a woman who was trying to prove she was the heir to the Mynette fortune and claim money that was otherwise intended for Louis le Grand School in Paris.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Nick Graves has had a life full of more death than any man can handle. Graves has dealt death as well--as an outlaw, running with some of the most feared gunslingers in the West. Now he's ready to turn his back on his dark past and live out his existence back in the family business--as a mourner, paid to see to the details of funerals and wakes. Nick wants to settle down, but a man's past has a way of staying with him. And soon he crosses paths with...
15825) Birds without wings
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
During the final days of the Ottoman Empire, the young men of the village are instructed to battle the invading forces during the Great War and destroy the peace.
15826) The Cryptographer's dilemma
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
FBI cryptographer Eloise Marshall is grieving the death of her brother, who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when she is assigned to investigate a seemingly innocent letter about dolls. Agent Phillip Clayton is ready to enlist and head overseas when asked to work one more FBI job. A case of coded defense coordinates related to dolls should be easy, but not so when the Japanese Consulate gets involved, hearts get entangled, and Phillip goes...
15827) The escape game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
15828) Death of a kingfisher
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened "Fairy Glen."
15829) Once upon a broken heart
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction.
15831) The Man who hated Hickok
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"It's 1876 and Cheyenne--long a haven for thugs and thieves--has taken on an air of civility. Until Wild Bill Hickock comes to town and humiliates a local gunman's mentally-challenged brother to the point of suicide. Ira Drang promptly vows to hunt Wild Bill and kill him. Broke, Ira takes work as a shotgun messenger on the notorious Cheyenne to Deadwood stage--to make it across the Black Hills after Wild Bill. It's a sporadic route through rough country...
15832) Perish
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Forensic expert Maggie Gardiner discovers troubling new details about her colleague Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a brutal approach to law and order, when the two infiltrate the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance to solve a murder"--
15834) The swan thieves: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
15835) The hush
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
It's been ten years since the eve nts that changed Johnny Merrimon's life. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy. His only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent.
15836) The best Christmas
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Share in the festive mood with this delightful story about spending time together. From making Christmas cards and decorating the tree, to baking cookies and opening presents with the grandchildren."---Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
15838) Family Thanksgiving
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Share in the joy of Thanksgiving in this heart-warming story about the simple pleasures of sharing family time together."--Back cover.
15839) The prisoner's wife: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded capture in the countryside...
15840) Red, White, and Whole (Youth
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Told in verse, Reha, already dealing with being the only Indian American student in middle school, must now take care of her mother diagnosed with leukemia."
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