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Chemical industry Fiction Chemical industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects Fiction Corporations Corrupt practices Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction FICTION / Suspense Large type books Mississippi Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators Fiction Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) FictionGrisham, John.
Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRIBegley, Louis.
Summary: "Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGLee, Patrick
Summary: "In the middle of the night, ex-Special Forces operative Sam Dryden gets a urgent call from an old colleague, desperate for his help in a last-minute secret mission ... The two race to a remote shack in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, where they break in, rescue four kidnapped girls, then flee into the hills just seconds ahead of the arriving police and FBI team. It's then that Sam Dryden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEMbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall Street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi jury rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply, causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrant, Andrew
Summary: "For fans of Harlan Coben's Tell No One and Joseph Finder's Paranoia--a high-octane thriller featuring a tech consultant who unwittingly steps into the rabbit hole of corporate cover-ups--and finds that his highly demanding job has suddenly become highly dangerous. From Andrew Grant, the critically acclaimed author hailed by Nelson DeMille as "a little bit of le Carre and Ian Fleming, but with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRARice, Christopher
Summary: Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was. But no one in the world has any idea what she's become... Charlotte is an experiment. And a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she's partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society's most depraved human predators. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RICDeaver, Jeffery
Summary: "Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DEAGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC GRIMcDonald, Ian
Summary: "The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDDeaver, Jeffery
Summary: "Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: locating a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company's sadistic enforcers. Only by finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEAShafer, David
Summary: The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHARotella, Sebastian
Summary: Valentine Pescatore returns from Buenos Aires to American soil, investigating the merciless killing of a group of women in a motel room. At first, the crime seems to be a straightforward case of gangsters battling for territory. Soon, however, the motive is revealed to be much deeper and more sinister: a single witness who knows too much is being hunted, at any cost. His case converges with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTDee, Jonathan.
Summary: Forced back into the working world after her lawyer husband's downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, who needs her professional assistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEEWestlake, Donald E.
Summary: Having set up a con on Monroe Hall, a fabulously wealthy and corrupt CEO, John Dortmunder and his hapless gang of crooks suddenly find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between their would-be mark Hall and his own victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESCrais, Robert
Summary: During an ordinary trip to the bank, Joe Pike witnesses teller Isabel Roland being abducted by two men as she is leaving for a break. Joe chases them down, and the men are arrested. But the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy. After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered, and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend Elvis Cole to investigate. Elvis uncovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRADjuna [Tyuna]
Summary: "For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYUAdams, Sean
Summary: "Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADASandford, John
Summary: Mr. Kidd tries to stay one step ahead of mysterious characters and the feds as he deals with a corporate spy who stole the plans for a fighter plane target system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SANSummary: After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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Summary: "Ex-Special Forces operative Sam Dryden responds to an urgent call from a former colleague and finds himself in possession of a device which has the power to change the course of history. There are some very bad people determined to get their hands on this device, and will stop at nothing to do so"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEEClarkson, John
Summary: "Olivia Sanchez--smart, driven, and beautiful--started at the bottom and worked her way up the ranks of a brokerage firm only to be unjustly, brutally fired, then blackballed. With no place else to go, she turns to her cousin, Manny Guzman, ex-con and ex-gang leader, for help. Manny's first instinct is to hit back. Hard. But his partner, James Beck knows that out in the real world, things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015