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Macy, Meg

Summary: "Sasha and her sister Maddie are thrilled that the Silver Bear Shop and Factory has won the Teddy Bear Keepsake Contest, which means they get to produce a holiday specialty toy, a wizard bear named "Beary Potter." Promising to be just as magical is Silver Hollow's annual tree-lighting ceremony and village parade. Only one hitch- the parade's mascot, Santa Bear-played by Mayor Cal Bloom-is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAC

Macy, Meg

Summary: "Always a bridesmaid, never a killer... At the Silver Bear Shop and Factory, Sasha will be selling plenty of bride and groom teddy bears come springtime. But this Valentine's Day weekend, she'd take any of those silent, stuffed couples over the real thing. Sasha and her sister Maddie are bridesmaids at Cissy Davidson's upcoming wedding in Silver Hollow. Cissy is fuming over the worst choice of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAC

Connolly, Sheila

Summary: Boston expat Maura Donovan never expected to stay in provincial County Cork, much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan's, in the small village of Leap. Maura has even brought back traditional Irish music to the pub, and it is thriving. Then she discover a body in the ravine behind the pub, the victim's face battered beyond recognition. Who is the faceless victim -- and why was his body...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M FIC CON

Calkins, Susanna

Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Woods, Stuart

Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand - or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOO

Calkins, Susanna

Summary: Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father, and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. It's a glamorous world of sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room, a flirtatious jazz pianist and a brooding photographer-- all overseen by the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Landis, Jill Marie

Summary: He hired her to find his long-lost daughter, not to fall in love. California private investigator Kat Vargas lives a lonely life of danger with a painful past. Desperate for rest and relaxation, she leaves the city lights of Long Beach to house sit in Twilight Cove, a tiny beach town. Having recently found out about the baby he fathered when he was in high school, Ty Chandler has been eager...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAN

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY PRE

George, Elizabeth

Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEO

Henderson, Alice

Summary: Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CHI

Parker, T. Jefferson

Summary: "Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam . . . and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAR

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHR

Upson, Nicola

Summary: Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note. The image leads Archie to Cambridge, where the crisp autumn air has brought bustling life to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPS

Preston, Douglas J.

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Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002

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Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Prest

Gardner, Lisa

Summary: Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited ... prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked -- salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

Grimes, Martha.

Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

Hillerman, Tony

Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: With special agent Pendergast missing and presumed dead and his ward Constance taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past, Pendergast's bodyguard, Proctor, begins an international pursuit of Constance's kidnapper.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Dixon, Franklin W.

Summary: Teenaged detectives Joe and Frank Hardy uncover a plot to sabotage a ski resort.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 5

Grimes, Martha

Summary: Superintendent Richard Jury investigates two murders in the hope of clearing the woman he loves. She is Lady Jennifer Kennington, a suspect in the deaths of an actress and a maid. A British mystery.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

George, Elizabeth

Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEO

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