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Summary: "Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of Laurence Poole, a petty local thief, emerges from the melting snow by the river at Flay Cross Mill. A coded notebook found in Laurence's room mentions Charlie Harker, the most notorious fence in Leeds who's now running for his life, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris
Summary: Leeds. November, 1823. When a doctor from the infirmary tells thief-taker Simon Westow about the brutal deaths of two young boys at the hands of a mill overseer, Simon's painful memories of his childhood reawaken. Unable to sleep, he goes for a walk - and stumbles upon the body of a young man being pulled from the river. Simon and his assistant, Jane, are drawn into investigating the deaths,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Summary: In 1733, Richard Nottingham hunts a child-killer preying on the street children of Leeds, but he has to go up against the wealthy and powerful of the city to do it, including the new mayor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2013
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Summary: "Leeds, October 1824. Thief-taker Simon Westow's job seems straightforward. Captain Holcomb's maid, Sophie, has stolen important papers that could ruin the family's reputation, and he's desperate for their return. But the case very quickly takes a murderous turn, and it becomes clear the papers are hiding a host of sins . . . During the search, Simon's assistant, Jane, hears a horrific tale:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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Summary: "Leeds. April, 1824. Wealthy engineer Joseph Clark employs thief-taker Simon Westow to find the men who stole the buried corpse of Catherine Jordan, his employee's daughter. Simon is stunned and horrified to realize there's a gang of body snatchers in Leeds. He needs to discover who bought Catherine's body and where it is now. As he hunts for answers, he learns that a number of corpses have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICNickson, Chris
Summary: "Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when he needed it most. So when Davey is arrested for sedition and Emily begs Simon for help, he starts asking questions, determined to clear his friend. Are the answers linked to rumours of a mysterious government spy in town? Davey's not the only one who needs Simon's help....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICJacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJanson, Julie
Summary: A young Darug girl is sent to the Parramatta Native School after white settlers begin to arrive and claim the continent for the British Empire and flees, searching for a safe place in an increasingly unfamiliar world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANDickson, Shirley
Summary: "England, 1943: When twenty-five-year-old May Robinson's mother is tragically killed one foggy night, May is heartbroken and terrified. She isn't sure she has the strength to harbor the secret they have kept for so many years-the secret her mother devoted her life to hiding. The secret that would tear their broken family even further apart. Instead, May vows to make her mother proud by training...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicksonJackson, Aaron
Summary: "Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJackson, 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 JACJackson, Buzzy
Summary: "A gripping and timely debut novel by award-winning nonfiction writer Buzzy Jackson based on a true story of the life of the heroic Hannie Schaft: a young Dutch woman who joined the Resistance in Holland during World War II and became one of the Nazis' most lethal adversaries. Hannie Schaft, a young woman living in Nazi-occupied Holland, never intended to be a fighter. Her dream was to finish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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Jackson, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACJackson, Easy
Summary: "When mail-order bride Tennessee Smith's husband drops dead on their wedding night, she'll do whatever it takes to save his ranch and raise his three boys, ages thirteen, ten, and six--even become marshal of the lawless Ring Bit, Texas, which is now her home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "The frontier town of Ring Bit, Texas, has a way of attracting trouble. But it's never seen anything like the mysterious gunman Hawkshaw. As the town marshal, it's Tennessee Smith's job to keep an eye on him. When Tennessee's stagecoach is ambushed--and she's taken hostage--she could use help even if it comes from Hawkshaw"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Tormented by strange visions and voices, and bound by destiny to save the life of an innocent, Bryanna, the only one who can lift the curse of darkness, must place her trust in a mysterious and darkly sensual stranger when she is surrounded by evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2007
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Summary: Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's "Thieftaker", revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others... until he is asked to recover a necklace worn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: "Let the battle for souls begin in Dead Man's Reach, the fourth, stand-alone novel in D.B. Jackson's acclaimed Thieftaker series. Boston, 1770: The city is a powder keg as tensions between would-be rebels and loyalist torries approach a breaking point and one man is willing to light the match that sets everything off to ensure that he has his revenge. The presence of the British Regulars has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJackson-Brown, Angela
Summary: "Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACGoodwin, Jason
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOOverstreet, Jason
Summary: For college graduate Sidney Temple, the Roaring Twenties bring opportunities even members of his accomplished black bourgeois family couldn’t have imagined. His impulsive marriage to independent artist Loretta is a happiness he never thought he’d find. And when he’s tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to be the FBI’s first African-American agent, he sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Overstreet 2016Goodwin, Jason
Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOGoodwin, Jason
Summary: When the Ottoman Empire of 1836 is shattered by a wave of political murders that threatens to upset the balance of power, eunuch intelligence agent Yashim Togalu conducts an investigation into clues within the empire's once-elite military forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019