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Backman, Fredrik Kepler, Lars Läckberg, Camilla Nesbø, Jo Persson, Leif G. W. Sund, Erik AxlNesbø, Jo
Summary: "From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACKepler, Lars
Summary: "Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kepler 2018Backman, Fredrik
Summary: An open house becomes a fearful situation when an escaped bank robber takes everyone inside hostage. As pressure mounts, eight strangers open up to each other and share their darkest secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BackmanKepler, Lars
Summary: "The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEPNesbø, Jo
Summary: Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: When an ex-fixer for a drug king in Oslo acts foolishly, he becomes his former employer's next target and escapes to a quiet Norway community where he finds an opportunity for redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESSummary: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GHONesbø, Jo
Summary: In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters--a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESSund, Erik Axl
Summary: "Two women--a police detective and a psychotherapist--are faced with the question: how much suffering can one human being inflict upon another before he ceases to be human and becomes a monster?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACKepler, Lars
Summary: Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to... It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. A masked stranger stands in the shadows. He watches his victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make him pay. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEPLäckberg, Camilla
Summary: "An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar -- a sexy, over-the-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire, and her delicious plot to get her revenge and bring him to his knees. Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LackebergNesbø, Jo
Summary: Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut. But while Lea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FI NESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: "Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series that includes The Bat, The Snowman, and, most recently, Police. In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nesbo 2017Persson, Leif G. W.
Summary: "A galvanizing new thriller from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author--a stand-alone novel that finds legendary Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson racing against time to solve one final murder. In the National Criminal Investigation Department he was known as "the man who sees around corners." Now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Persson 2017Backman, Fredrik
Summary: Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the eight strangers begin opening up to one another. Before long, the robber must decide which is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fic BacBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Backman 2020Backman, Fredrik
Summary: A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018