Harkaway, Nick
Summary: "From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARFerrari, Enrique
Summary: Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in the trunk of his BMW. As far as the body goes, he's completely innocent. He has no idea who the victim could be, or who among his many, many enemies might be trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERGoldberg, Paul
Summary: Facing daunting prospects after losing a prestigious job, a once-successful science reporter investigates the suspicious death of his college roommate, a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, in an all-or-nothing case that is shaped by the schemes of the reporter's political dissident father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goldberg 2018Cotterill, Colin
Summary: "Thailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal Thai Postal Service, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend, Ali, the owner of a video store. These cinephiles adore the charisma of the old Western stars, particularly the actresses, and bemoan the state of modern Thai cinema-until a mysterious cassette, entitled Bangkok 2010, arrives at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COTLipsyte, Sam
Summary: Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPVan Lente, Fred
Summary: Nine comedians of various acclaim arrive on the deserted island retreat of a legendary Hollywood funnyman, where they discover that they are marooned without cell phones or wifi and that someone in the group is killing the others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANKidd, Jess
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother's disappearance, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kidd 2017Stevenson, Benjamin
Summary: Everyone in Ernest Cunningham's family has killed someone, even Ernest, who wishes he killed whoever planned the family reunion at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2023