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Summary: When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to take his place, but Don Pedro Martinez plans to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, so he can destroy the Barrington family firm once and for all. The talented Jessica Clifton, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter, wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art and falls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCAtkinson, Kate
Summary: In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATKCussler, Clive
Summary: "The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSDallas, Sandra.
Summary: Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DALDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: Hearing rumors of the construction of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading a first American submarine into the Inland Sea in the hopes of finding and stopping the seemingly invincible ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEUFaye, Lyndsay
Summary: "The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAYFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: In medieval Cambridge four children are murdered. The Catholics blame the Jews and they are placed under the protection of the King Henry VIII. The king sends for someone to do a scientific investigation into the deaths. The person sent is an Italian woman doctor, but in medieval Cambridge she must conceal her true identity to keep herself safe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FRAFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FRAFurnivall, Kate.
Summary: Once, Russia was a place split between breathtaking wealth and desperate poverty. Now, as the country conforms under Stalin's violent rule, a young woman becomes a fugitive, and a storied hero turns into a living, breathing man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FURGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Promoted and placed in charge of a top-secret spy operation for a fledgling Central Intelligence Agency, James Cronley discovers links between the former German intelligence chief and the Mossad before receiving shocking intelligence from an undercover agent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGrisham, John
Summary: Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIHarris, Robert
Summary: September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARJackson, Lisa.
Summary: The arrival of a wounded warrior brings peril into the life of Lady Morwenna, as she nurses him back to health, unaware of the deadly menace of a mysterious man who calls himself the Redeemer and stalks the dark halls of Castle Calon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Onyx 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACKerr, Philip.
Summary: Bernie Gunther, the tough, fast-talking noirish detective takes on far more than he'd bargained for, and he soon finds himself on the run, facing enemise on every side. Because in a defeated and divided Germany, it's hard to know friends from enemies, the one from the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERLehane, Dennis
Summary: Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEHO'Nan, Stewart
Summary: "In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ONAPenney, Stef.
Summary: 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PENPerry, Anne
Summary: "In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London's Hungarian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Anne
Summary: "Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERTodd, Charles
Summary: "Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018