Alter, Stephen.
Summary: The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top-secret facility facing the snow-clad Himalayas, India's legendary spymaster, Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, keeps a watchful eye on sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTCarter, Stephen L.
Summary: In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CarAlger, Cristina.
Summary: Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGBurdett, John.
Summary: Paired with a young misfit inspector with the Royal Thai Police force, tortured Buddhist detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep stumbles on a conspiracy surrounding a new super-soldier cyborg technology in a case that forces him to confront his lost father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURAbarbanell, Stephan
Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Talty, Stephan.
Summary: Returning to the working-class Irish-American community of her childhood in South Buffalo, homicide detective Absalom Kearney begins receiving cryptic messages from a twisted serial killer only to find her investigation stymied by her own colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALOsborne, Lawrence
Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came without warning, and they killed the only other person she trusted. When her former handler offers her a way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEYAlpert, Mark
Summary: Just before his death after a brutal attack, Professor David Swift's mentor whispers to him "Einheitliche Feldtheorie"--the Theory of Everything. Supposedly, Einstein died before actually discovering the theory. Or did he? Soon, Swift is on a journey to discover the theory so he can keep it from those who know the true deadly scope of its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2005
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Summary: Discovering that his estranged hacker daughter is being targeted by an assassin determined to stop her from exposing Chinese secrets, Jim Pierce learns that the Chinese military has developed an artificial life form that is threatening humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPAlpert, Mark
Summary: Just before his death after a brutal attack, Professor David Swift's mentor whispers to him "Einheitliche Feldtheorie"--the Theory of Everything. Supposedly, Einstein died before actually discovering the theory. Or did he? Soon, Swift is on a journey to discover the theory so he can keep it from those who know the true deadly scope of its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: America is on the brink of collapse, devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens, in the next action-packed thriller from Mark Alpert. New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable and defenseless people into the flood-ravaged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is on the run for his life from the FBI and a ruthless mercenary as he frantically tries to work out an unpublished Einstein theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPStephens, Jeffrey S.
Summary: "Whisked from his Manhattan town house to a gabled CIA safe house in Virginia, [CIA agent Jordan] Sandor faces off with a top terrorist agent from Iran's Revolutionary Guard. In exchange for protection from his own side, Ahmad Jaber is offering the CIA explosive information: word of a secret, unholy alliance forged among operatives in the Middle East, a ruthless South American, and Kim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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Summary: Jordan Sandor reluctantly returns to serve in the Central Intelligence Agency to look into a new terrorist conspiracy involving a poisonous gas attack, and when he follows a dangerous trail to Portofino, Italy, he discovers a rogue agent and tries to prevent a catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Variance 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETamblyn, Amber
Summary: "In this electric and provocative debut novel, Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture. A violent serial rapist is on the loose, who goes by the name Maude. She hunts for men at bars, online, at home--the place doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAMNaslund, Sena Jeter.
Summary: Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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Summary: Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, Eric, a handsome white man of privilege, and Tommy, an impoverished black youth with poor health, are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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Summary: Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walker 2013Mosley, Walter
Summary: Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2018