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Summary: "Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRILehane, Dennis.
Summary: Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. It tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEHParker, T. Jefferson
Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam . . . and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHarris, Robert
Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARGoddard, Robert
Summary: July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure -- and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODWiden, Gregory.
Summary: As the only man who knows where Eva Perón is buried, CIA officer Michael Suslov is asked to help bring her body back to Argentina as part of a civil war peace deal, but he isn't the only one looking to unearth the former First Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIDGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In 1946, special agent James Cronley Jr. uncovers evidence of a stolen fortune in the hands of Odessa while tracking down two escaped Nazi war criminals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIRollins, James
Summary: "The second installment in the bestselling gothic series, about an ancient order who speak the truth behind Christ's miracles and strive to protect the world from evil - from the winning writerly combo of James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLBaldacci, David
Summary: WWII veteran Aloysius Archer is fresh out of prison and heads to California, where there's money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BALGriffin, 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