Jocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCMathews, Francine
Summary: "Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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Summary: A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATDavis, Rusty
Summary: Rakeheart, Wyoming, is a town with troubles. Murders. Violence. Deceit. Into its crosscurrents comes Kane, a troubleshooter sent west to learn why ex-army officer Jared Wilkins was killed. Kane encounters hostility at every turn. The rancher's widow emerges as his prime suspect even as the townspeople who ask him to become sheriff make it clear they are playing a deceitful game. As Kane tries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, detective Meredith Folger investigates the drowning of a man who worked the scallop boats. A tale of drugs and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMatthews, Owen
Summary: "A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine
Summary: "After a trying case, Merry begrudgingly agrees to take a leave from work to meet her fussy future in-laws in Greenwich, but it isn't long before she is summoned back to Nantucket. The body of a young man was discovered in the Sound the weekend of the annual Christmas Stroll. Although a simple drowning is suspected--the water is hardly above freezing, after all--the death isn't sitting well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Carole
Summary: "Molly Baker is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There's Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with attitude, and the definitely-not-miniature pig, Teacup. Molly runs the farm as an alternative school for kids who haven't thrived in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A wordless board book that follows the journey of one yellow ribbon as it transforms into many other objects."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOCMathews, Francine
Summary: "As a violent nor'easter bears down on New England over the final weekend in September, a luxury yacht grounds on the shoals surrounding a deserted barrier island off the western end of Nantucket. When the Coast Guard responds, they find two people shot in the boat's cabin, one of whom dies before reaching the hospital. Nantucket Police Detective Meredith Folger is called in to investigate -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMathews, Francine.
Summary: The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry Folger spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and experienced, but this time one of her friends is involved. Del Duarte has returned to Nantucket with a baby, but she's keeping quiet about her daughter's parentage. When her own father, Joe, an experienced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: On Nantucket Island, lady-detective Meredith Folger investigates the slaying of Rusty Mason, a local resident who fled to Brazil after an insider-trading scandal, returning home 10 years later. A debut in fiction for a former intelligence analyst with the CIA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMatthews, Mimi
Summary: "Wealthy squire's daughter Margaret Honeywell was always meant to marry her neighbor, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but it's bastard-born Nicholas Seaton who has her heart. Raised alongside her on her father's estate, Nicholas is the rumored son of notorious highwayman Gentleman Jim. When Fred frames him for theft, Nicholas escapes into the night, vowing to find his legendary sire. But Nicholas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MATKurtz, Christopher.
Summary: "Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KURBowling, Dusti
Summary: Eight-year-old Aven Green is despondent when she does not master the piano in one day, but with new inspiration from guitarist Mr. Tom, who is armless like her, along with a special gift from her great-grandma, Aven learns she does not need to be perfect to perform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWRichards, Dusty
Summary: "Deputy Marshal Luther Haskill goes undercover in Arizona Territory to investigate the hanging of three men who were executed by their fellow ranchers and is met by a wall of silence and a family guarding a deadly secret"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RICBowling, Dusti
Summary: Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month. But when her teacher's lunch bag is taken and Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing, can this perceptive detective crack two cases at the same time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2021
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Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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Summary: From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification--a moving story of loss, love, and resilience. In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYBetley, Matthew
Summary: Set in the aftermath of Betley's "machine-gun pace" (Booklist) Oath of Honor and the discovery of a deadly global conspiracy, the president requests Logan West to form a covert task force with the mission to dismantle a nameless enemy. With the full resources of the Justice Department, Intelligence Community, and the military (not to mention presidential pardons pre-signed), Logan must battle a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BETCarr, Matthew
Summary: "In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHart, Matthew
Summary: "When "The Russian Pink"--a stunningly large rose-hued diamond--makes a surprise appearance around the neck of Honey Li, the wife of surging presidential candidate Harry Nash, Alex Turner, an investigator for the Treasury Department's diamond division and former C.I.A. agent, finds himself spiraling down a seemingly endless rabbit hole. A diamond like that always carries secrets, but the web of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPalmer, Matthew
Summary: "Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems. But Sam soon discovers that for all their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015