Claflin, Stacy
Summary: "He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he'll risk his life to save hers. Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister's disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABeaufort, Simon
Summary: "London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on The Pall Mall Gazette, is following up a story about a fatal house fire. But the post mortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, Limited 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaufort 2017Parker, K. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAREngberg, Katrine
Summary: "When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a linkbetween the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGGilmour, Stefanie
Summary: From the moment she transformed into a werewolf, Alex was terrified. First, of the man who attacked her—then of herself. If her inner wolf breaks free again, people could die, and she’ll be the one hunted. Alex struggles to keep her savage passenger caged, but life doesn’t make it easy. The Committee ruling the supernatural community would punish her for the slightest misstep. A group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stefanie Gilmour 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle’s car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain’s top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle’s killers and complete Ian’s final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2008
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Patterson, James
Summary: He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBenton-Walker, Terry J.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Alex leads the charge against the forces of evil as he tries to stop the Four Horsemen from taking over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BENHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORBott, Adrian C.
Summary: One elite gamer. One shape-shifting robot. Unlimited adventure! One day, Axel is playing video games when something huge breaks into his garage. It's a robot. His name is BEAST. And he's on the run from the nasty Grabbem Industries, who want BEAST back right now! Axel has no idea that he and BEAST will soon be best friends and go on the wildest adventures you could imagine. BEAST is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JFS Axel BottEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAHamilton, Steve
Summary: PI Alex McKnight of Detroit, a former policeman with a bullet lodged near his heart, braces himself for trouble when the killer who placed it there calls, promising to finish the job. The killer is serving a life sentence in jail, but as McKnight knows one can kill by proxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak 2006
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Summary: Introducing outspoken female sleuth Alex Quick in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When her business partner, acclaimed art historian and university professor Dr Helena Drummond, disappears, Alexandra Quick is consumed by guilt. Shortly before she vanished, Helena had complained of being menaced by a stalker, and Alex had dismissed her fears as groundless. Now Alex, a former police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOBardugo, Leigh
Summary: "Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCameron, Stella
Summary: Returning to her hometown in the Cotswolds after a bad divorce, Alex Duggins stumbles across a corpse buried in the snow, and she must find the real murderer and clear her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Summary: When her not-so-bright brother Wild Bill, a boat captain, goes missing in Florida, Barney takes up the search. Apart from the sunburn and humidity-induced bad hair, Barney also has to deal with Sam Hooker, whose missing boat might lead to Wild Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVABowling, Dusti
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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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOWBreach, Jen
Summary: Clementine Hetherington and her robot brother, Digory, have run away from the orphanage they've been living in since their parents died. Clem and Dig want to follow in their famous archaeologist mother's footsteps, but no one will take them seriously
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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Summary: In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney makes a pair of unthinkable discoveries. His beloved city is under threat of attack. And these would-be terrorists may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2019Townsend, Peggy
Summary: Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWChapman, Julia
Summary: Delilah Metcalfe, the owner of The Dales Dating Agency, is besieged by financial concerns, struggling to keep two businesses afloat and a roof over her head. She has no choice, but to accept Samson O Brien as a new tenant for her office space.Dismissed from the police force and facing criminal prosecution, Samson has returned to his home town to set up a detective agency while he fights to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020