Stanley, Michael.
Summary: Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti, a witch doctor's potion traditionally derived from plants and animals--and which, some believe, can be made more potent by adding human remains. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu joins the investigation with the police force's newest detective--and only woman--Samantha Khama, for whom the case is personal.Soon one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Higashino, Keigo
Summary: Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGNagendra, Harini
Summary: "When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she's resigned herself to a quiet life. But that all changes the night of the party at the Century Club, where she escapes to the garden for some peace and quiet--and instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows. Half an hour later, the party turns into a murder scene. When a vulnerable woman is connected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAGStanley, Michael
Summary: "Recent university graduate David 'Kubu' Bengu joins the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department directly rather than via the normal route of a constable on the beat. This does not sit well with existing detectives. Shortly after he joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stanley 2020Dashner, James
Summary: In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Media Enterprises 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASGriffiths, Elly.
Summary: The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy?s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith?s passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy?s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRISullivan, Kyle
Summary: Set in the faraway land of Rancidia, Hobgoblin flees the jealous wrath of a monstrous ogre tyrant named Fiddlefart and along the way he joins forces with the Seven Stinkers, an outcast band of foul-smelling creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazy Dell Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE SULRiordan, Rick.
Summary: Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sade Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Their only hope: find an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2012
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Riordan 2012Stanley, Michael
Summary: Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti - a witch doctor's potion. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu joins the investigation with the polices force's newest detective - and only woman - Samantha Khama, for whom the case is personal. Soon one girl's father, convinced that his daughter's death is linked to the recent popularity of a political candidate, takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPaperbacks 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STATanenbaum, Robert
Summary: "Prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, must team up to solve the suspicious murder of an FBI informant and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TANPatterson, James
Summary: During a family reunion at the Eastern Wilderness Reserve, adventurers and expert trackers Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg must outsmart the rule-makers when two of their cousins run away together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "During a tour of the academy, Kaos removes his disguise and attacks! Tessa, Cali, and the newly found Flynn rush back to the school. Will they be able to help the students?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARTakahiro
Summary: "It's Night Raid versus the Jaegers in Volume 5 of the hit dark fantasy Akame ga KILL! When the Jaegers' Dr. Stylish attacks the Night Raid base, Tatsumi and the others are forced out of their hideout to escape the deadly assassin! Pursued by Dr. Stylish's army of experimental soldiers, Night Raid must defeat the mad scientist or risk being made his next test subjects!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATanenbaum, Robert
Summary: Assistant district attorney Roger ("Butch") Karp ahd his private investigator wife Marlene Ciampi both take on cases involving Mafia family members, and they soon learn that the two crimes are related. Butch and Marlene's twelve-year-old daughter, Lucy, witnesses a murder in Chinatown that is also connected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANTanenbaum, Robert
Summary: When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the community rises up in anger and demands to have the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But there's something more than a call for justice at work here: a plot to bring down the city's police force through a conspiracy so vast and malicious only Butch Karp and his band of truth-seekers can untangle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M TANHigashino, Keigo
Summary: "In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution. In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGHigashino, Keigo
Summary: Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGKrulik, Nancy E.
Summary: Katie agrees to be a buddy for the new girl in class even though her best friend Suzanne does not approve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KRUKrulik, Nancy E.
Summary: Katie's teacher, Mrs. Derkman, hopes to win the Teacher of the Year contest, but her chances do not look good when Katie turns into her teacher and cannot keep a class full of out-of-control third-graders in line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KRUDashner, James
Summary: As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF Dashner 2011Stanley, Michael
Summary: A Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Although the man looks old enough to have died of natural causes, the police suspect foul play, and the body is sent to Gaborone for an autopsy. Pathologist Ian MacGregor confirms the cause of death as a broken neck, but is greatly puzzled by the man's physiology. Although he's obviously very old, his internal organs look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction StanleyStanley, Michael.
Summary: Faced with the violent death of his own father, Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu, the smartest detective in the Botswana police, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? Kubu's frustration grows as his boss, Director Mabaku, bans him from being involved in the investigation. The picture becomes even murkier with the apparent suicide of a government official. Are Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STARiordan, Rick.
Summary: After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Riordan 2010Summary: No sooner had Europe declared an end to its Great War than the seeds of new conflict were sewn-in the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. With typical global awareness, photography patron and archivist Albert Kahn chose to document the historic changes occurring in the colonial Middle East. This program traces his team's expeditions into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine as Western powers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009