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Summary: Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, shes an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAZMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "As the new manager of The Perfect Passion Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in New Town, Katie Donald has made it her mission to provide help to the lovelorn citizens of Edinburgh. With the help of her amiable and handsome office neighbor William Kidd, she finds herself making matches for the lonely hearts of Edinburgh who want a more personal touch. In this tale, Katie helps an airline pilot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: "Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin's agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukranian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Turnbull, Bryn
Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURPandian, Gigi
Summary: "Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PANConway, Elly
Summary: "A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2024
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Summary: Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMichaels, Fern
Summary: "For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOOPitoniak, Anna
Summary: Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1996
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Summary: The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming fifth birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone₂s director, calls Hayes back for one more mission. It's a walk in the park. You don't even have to go in with the strike team. I just need you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOOIgnatius, David
Summary: Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEQuinn, Kate
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Texas good old boys Doolin and Tubbs take on a pair of copy-cat outlaws--and prove they're not getting older, they're getting deadlier--in their latest, greatest adventure form the bestselling Johnstones... Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but--thanks to the success...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2024
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Summary: "A Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, Kane journeys to the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, where violence is the only way to survive, to exfiltrate a man with vital information, but instead meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2024
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Walker, Carlie
Summary: "An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiancé but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC BAZPek, Jane
Summary: Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022