Summary: He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ABSSummary: A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DESBaldacci, David.
Summary: Not far from Washington D.C., in a wooded area of Northern Virginia, a small house at the end of a gravel road serves a secret purpose. With its sophisticated security apparatus and hidden miniaturized cameras, it is being used by the FBI to interview one of the most important witnesses the agency has ever had, a young woman with an incredible story to tell. But others also know about the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALCampos-Duffy, Rachel
Summary: "While lost inside the magnificent building, Paloma becomes enchanted with the statue of Lady Freedom, learns about her immigrant father's dreams, and discovers her own courage and love for America." --Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMClose, Jennifer
Summary: "A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLOJames, Anna. (Anna Lois)
Summary: The bookwandering community is at risk when an extreme group of Librarians take over the British Underlibrary. Tilly and Oskar believe that an elusive group of bookwanderers called the Archivists may be the key to restoring balance and Tilly thinks she s discovered their whereabouts: the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Group 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMKovac, Christina
Summary: "There's something about the disappearance of a beautiful young attorney--she leaves a Georgetown restaurant after a dispute with her husband, and is never seen alive again--that grips television news producer Virginia Knightly from the moment the 'MISSING' notice lands on her desk. A brilliant producer, but also a tormented soul and an isolated workaholic, Virginia--the only woman of power at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 37 INK 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVClose, Jennifer
Summary: The story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLOSummary: When trouble rears its ugly head, headline-making, life-ruining trouble, there's only one person to call: the legendary Olivia Pope. With her steadfast rule of always trusting her gut, Olivia leads an expert team of crisis management consultants skilled at making even the most sordid, salacious scandals disappear. But as these self-proclaimed 'gladiators in suits' begin to reveal the cracks in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCAPatterson, James
Summary: "A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PATKeene, Carolyn
Summary: "Nancy investigates her father's disappearance in Washington, D.C. in the twenty-second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEPatterson, James
Summary: In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PatPatterson, James
Summary: For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random-Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother-have told him....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATSummary: Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWEPatterson, James
Summary: Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to crack the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly scenes share...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: When a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the vice president is killed in a double homicide, it opens the psychological case files for Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PatQuirk, Matthew
Summary: "Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUISnider, Brandon T.
Summary: When she seizes a piece of an ancient wand from the Servants of Evil, Wonder Woman discovers that it is infused with dark magic, and during her quest for the remaining pieces she realizes that the wand belongs to the evil Circe, who must be the Servants mysterious master--but when she brings the pieces to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., she discovers that some of the people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SNITucker, Neely
Summary: While investigating the death of the son of Washington, D.C.'s most influential African-American family, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter discovers the real story--one that forces him to strike a dangerous balance between the city's violent back streets and its highest corridors of power.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUCLarson, Kirby
Summary: In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARO'Dell, Claire
Summary: Set in a near future Washington, DC, this novel offers a feminist twist on Sherlock Holmes, in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes unmask a murderer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'DEPatterson, James
Summary: A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC, leaving behind no shred of evidence. Detective Alex Cross must manage the investigation, with the dubious help of a charismatic true-crime author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMISummary: The Oval Office is up for grabs, and none of the players are playing nice, including Olivia Pope, who now realizes she can never be content as a wifely First Lady. Domestic bliss pales in comparison with holding the reins of the highest office in the land, so when faced with a chance to wield unrivaled influence at any cost, will she continue to wear the white hat, or prove that she is, indeed,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016