Hambly, Barbara
Summary: "When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2017Hambly, Barbara
Summary: "New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Summary: "Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad -- the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers LTD 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2016Hambly, Barbara
Summary: "New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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Summary: "April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2019Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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Summary: When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin--only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Set in New Orleans in 1836.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMContents: Too late new / Wet Leg -- She still leads me on / Suede -- Hot penny day / Dry Cleaning -- No gold teeth / Danger Mouse and Black Thought -- Diarabi / Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin -- Taken back / Rich Ruth -- The oppsosite / The Smile -- Try Love / Horace Andy -- A lifetime to find / Wilco -- Partition / Bill Callahan -- The weight / Mavis Staples and Levon Helm -- Fever / Aldous Harding --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJContents: At the holiday party / St. Vincent -- It don't bother me / Robert Plant and Alison Krauss -- Tack X / Black Country, New Road -- White elephant / Nick Cave and Warren Ellis -- Blind Willie McTell / Chrissie Hynde -- The first day / Villagers -- Movement 1 / Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders -- Leafy / Dry Cleaning -- Dancing away in tears / Yola -- I think I / David Crosby -- Parking lot /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJContents: Crossing the rubicon / Bob Dylan -- Azad / Frazey Ford -- Highly Amplified / Cornershop -- So we won't forget / Khruangbin -- Yankee and the brave / Run The Jewels -- I was not born / Fontaines D.C. -- Galleon ship / Nick Cave -- Halloween / Phoebe Bridgers -- Ry Cooder / Bill Callahan -- Virile / Moses Sumney -- Got to be tough / Toots and the Maytals -- House music all night long / Jarv Is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJContents: Drum / Young Fathers -- Round the bend / The Tubs -- Oceans apart / The Coral -- Scapegoat / Anohni and the Johnsons -- Clear away in the morning / Lankum -- All of the people / Grian Chatten -- Portrait of a clear day / Julie Byrne -- Meant to be / Wilco -- FaceTime (Billy Woods & Kenny Segal feat. Sam Herring) -- Just in time / Rickie Lee Jones -- Baba Louie / Jaimie Branch -- Run a red light...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJNaylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Summary: Alice's first year of high school is difficult, but with the help of her father, older brother, and her friends she feels better about herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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Summary: With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2011
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Summary: Guarding lives is Alyssa Lock's game, and no one play it better. Her toughest challenge will be protecting herself from a serial killer she has been after for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He won't risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: An illustrated introduction to knights describing their duties, training, armor, weapons, methods of warfare, and place in medieval society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.17 KERPatterson, James
Summary: Private investigative agency founder Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade, whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. Before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. The victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2023
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Summary: "A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1995
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Summary: Excited for the annual Bandicoot Bacchanal, Ripley recruits her friends to help her get ready for the dance. But before the Lumberjanes know it, something mysterious begins to bubble to the surface of the lake near camp! Will the Lumberjanes be able to bring peace to the lake in time for the Bacchanal?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMZamora Mola, Francesc.
Summary: Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2017
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Summary: Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. When he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's 'private collection.' Three of the other players turn out to be Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011