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McDermott, Alice

Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Kanon, Joseph

Summary: Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAN

Patterson, James

Summary: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Rollins, James

Summary: "A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state while the plants and animals around them have grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading across the African...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROL

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