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Summary: "It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2020
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Summary: Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRITurnbull, Bryn
Summary: Summer, 1926. When Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she is immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale-- even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales. Her marriage to Duke leads her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TURBrin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBruen, Ken
Summary: "Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken
Summary: Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is producing a film based on her and Max's life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBreen, Steve
Summary: Henry McHenry is trying his best to keep clean for his class photo, but his attempts to stay spotless get his classmates messy instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
Summary: The decapitation killing of Father Joyce in the confessional of a Galway church shocks all of Ireland, including Jack Taylor, a man devastated by a recent personal loss, who finds himself investigating crimes of the past to solve this case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken
Summary: "As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken
Summary: "In the new novel Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn't about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2015
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Summary: "Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: Jack Taylor is back in Galway and has sunk into his old patterns of drinking, but a gypsy arrives during a moment of Jack's clarity and reveals that young men of this gypsy's clan are turning up dead in the center of town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BRUBruen, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBrin, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBrin, David.
Summary: When Hari Seldon learns of a conspiracy that will threaten the existence of his Second Foundation, he sets out with a group of unlikely companions to stop the conspiracy before it destroys all humankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRIBreen, Steve
Summary: "Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble."--Title page verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BREBrin, David.
Summary: After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRUBruen, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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Summary: Struggling to remain sober and overcome a debt to a local thug, Jack Taylor accepts a job tracking down a woman who once befriended the thug's mother, an assignment that proves increasingly challenging and dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Summary: Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008