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41) Dark sky
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English
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The governor of Wyoming gives Joe the thankless assignment of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip. Unbeknownst to them, a man-hunter is hot on their heels. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his charge. Meanwhile, when Joe's closest friend, Nate Romanowski, and Joe's daughter Sheridan learn of the threat to his life, they follow...
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Atlee Pine novels volume 4
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English
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FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Mercy’s disappearance left behind a damaged family that later shattered beyond...
For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Mercy’s disappearance left behind a damaged family that later shattered beyond...
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English
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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is...
44) Sunset express
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English
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On his own turf in LA, Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. Hired by the defence lawyer to investigate alleged evidence tampering by the detective on the case, Cole soon begins to be more suspicious of the media-loving lawyers than the cops.
46) Snow
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St. John Strafford volume 1
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English
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Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
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English
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"While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university. While he is perplexed as to why the...
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English
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Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In The One from the Other, Hitler's legacy lives on. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich. Business is slow and his funds are dwindling when a woman hires him to investigate her husband's...
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 512, [19] p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dismissing circumstantial evidence that incriminates a young man in the murder of his girlfriend in Aurora, Minnesota, former sheriff Cork O'Connor confronts local bigotry and bureaucracy in order to find the true killer.
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Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hired to find a friend's daughter, a country-western singer missing in the wilds of Minnesota. O'Connor discovers FBI agents and a gangster from a casino are also looking for the woman, but they won't say why.
52) Sacred monster
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Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
This novel is organized as a series of film flashbacks and forwards, with movie star Jack Pine speaking to an interviewer, Michael O'Connor. Stoned on drugs, Pine describes how his lifelong friend, Buddy Pal, helped him rise from lean beginnings to the top in Hollywood. A foreboding air pervades the recital of Pine's shameful past; though a habitual user of people, he remains unaware that Pal is using him.
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request: Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago? With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate Henry Wellington,...
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
Description
When Bernie breaks into an apartment to steal a box, he finds a body.
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover an old trapper's cabin where they find the body of a teenage girl. She wasn't killed by the storm, however; she'd been bound and tortured before she died....
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill explodes in the early morning hours, killing Ojibwe elder Charlie Warren. The local Native Americans are up in arms over Lindstrom's plan to cut down Our Grandfathers, a grove of old-growth white pines sacred to tribal lore. Outside conservationists have also descended on the town, eager to save the 300-year-old trees. When a person identifying himself as the Eco-Warrior, soldier of the Army of the Earth, claims responsibility...
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A domestic-disturbance call on the Ojibwa reservation turns nasty when someone starts taking potshots at Cork. Elsewhere, the body of a Chicago businessman is found on the banks of Mercy Falls. The victim was trying to broker a deal between his casino-management company and the reservation. Could someone on the res have killed him?
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian book dealer and fashionable thief Bernie Rhodenbarr once again indulges his appetite for breaking and entering in his never-ending quest for fun and profit.
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...The latest in the series finds the sheriff running for his life from professional hit men who have already put a bullet through his leg. Desperate, he finds sanctuary outside a small town called Bodine on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in an old resort owned by his cousin, Jewell DuBois. Though Jewell, a bitter widow whose husband may have been killed by cops, keeps Cork at arm's length, her fourteen-year-old son, Ren, is looking for a friend....
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An attempted robbery involves jewel thief Bernie Rhodenbarr in a murder investigation in which he becomes the chief suspect.
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