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Summary: Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera--like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANLand, Jon
Summary: "2002: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes without a trace. The present: A mass shooting on the steps of the Capitol nearly claims the life of Robert Brixton's grandson. No stranger to high-stakes investigations, Brixton embarks on a trail to uncover the motive behind the shooting. On the way he finds himself probing the attempted murder of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLand, Jon
Summary: "The nation's first female vice president is dead. The public, including international investigator Robert Brixton, believes it was natural causes, complications related to a long-hidden heart condition. Kendra Rendine, head of Vice President Stephanie Davenport's Secret Service security detail, covertly approaches Brixton to look deeper into Davenport's death. Brixton discovers that a rumored...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LandHand, Elizabeth
Summary: "On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai'i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island's idyllic reputation: It has long been a place where people vanish without a trace. When a young woman named Jessie from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHand, Elizabeth
Summary: "Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANAtkinson, Kate
Summary: Ten years after she was recruited as a spy, Juliet Armstrong presumes the events of those years are in the past. But a different war is being fought now, and she finds herself once more under threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKPatterson, James
Summary: A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2018Patterson, James
Summary: An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Harriet Blue from Never Never is back. And she is hunting her brother's killer. Detective Harriet Blue is a good cop on the run, and now there is a price on her head. However, Harriet is not the only one who has gone rogue. A known killer roams free, searching for his next victim, and leaving a grisly trail to the scene of a long-abandoned cold case. As the police race to save one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff and is forced to take on a secret investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady. As Sally races against the clock to save the First Lady, she discovers evidence that leads to a troubling conclusion:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATWinters, Ben H.
Summary: Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else. This is how Laz must, by law, introduce himself, lest he fail to disclose his true purpose or nature, and by doing so, be guilty of a lie. Laz is a resident of The Golden State, a nation resembling California, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINWeir, Andy
Summary: "Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIGraham, Heather
Summary: "Alex Chin and Samantha Dixon may have managed to win a major battle against the powerful enemy determined to destroy civilization as we know it. But the war continues, with Alex and Sam embarking on a desperate journey to save mankind, even as their friendship blossoms into something much more. The roadmap for their journey lies in a mysterious book, the language of which has never been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAGraham, Heather
Summary: "Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMurray, Andy (Andrew Hunter)
Summary: "In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owned by one of the world’s wealthiest men--and finds an entire new civilization waiting for him. Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire philanthropist Sir John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publising 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCussler, Clive
Summary: In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanished on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler with a mysterious cargo sinks off the coast of Scotland. As the NUMA team searches for the trawler, they are joined by agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction CusBrown, Graham
Summary: "A freighter carrying top-secret computers disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRORay, Elka
Summary: When single mom Jo Dykstra was at her lowest, her childhood friend Dana McFarlane helped her out big-time. So, when Jo gets a frantic late-night call from Dana, sobbing and desperate for help, it feels like a chance to help her friend in return. The last thing Jo expects to see when she arrives at Dana's oceanfront mansion is her friend's husband dead, sprawled face down on the floor. Dana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on. Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter: I didn't do it. Frustrated with her work at the city's sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DAHDimberg, Kelsey Rae
Summary: Finn Hunt is working a dull office job when she meets the city's First Family, Philip and Marina Martin and their daughter. She eagerly agrees to be their nanny. But behind every façade lurks a less attractive truth. While Finn becomes caught up in a web of deceit, she too has a background she has hidden. Under the hot Phoenix sun, everything is about to be laid bare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DIMLippman, Laura
Summary: New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPRose, Jeneva
Summary: Overworked city gal Grace Evans is ready for a relaxing getaway on a Wyoming ranch, where the owner is handsome Calvin Wells. But when she hears of a missing woman, things soon change for the worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Overworked city gal Grace Evans is ready for a relaxing getaway on a Wyoming ranch, where the owner is handsome Calvin Wells. But when she hears of a missing woman, things soon change for the worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023