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(Fictitious character) Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character) Pendergast, Aloysius Fiction Australian fiction England London FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural FICTION / Occult & Supernatural FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Government investigators Government investigators Fiction Private investigatorsGalbraith, Robert
Summary: Private detective Robin Ellacott and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover the true identity of a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALGalbraith, Robert.
Summary: When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible, and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Shepherd has developed "Dorothy," a powerful, self-modifying AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: With special agent Pendergast missing and presumed dead and his ward Constance taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past, Pendergast's bodyguard, Proctor, begins an international pursuit of Constance's kidnapper.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: A legendary heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and parachuted into the night, never to be seen again. Perhaps. A brutal crime steeped in malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Preston 2016Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: The murder of Grace Ozmian first seems like an isolated case, but it quickly becomes clear that a diabolical presence is haunting New York City. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe, let alone survive to tell the tale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the coast of Florida, all with a severed human foot inside. Pendergast reluctantly arrives on Captiva Island and is quickly drawn into the mystery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Curator Nora Kelly is approached by historian Clive Benton to lead an expedition unlike any other. Nora agrees, and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the Donner Party camp.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PREHepworth, Sally
Summary: Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It's a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise their two young daughters. But the houses perfect facade hides something more sinister: The Spot, where the tall cliffs have become a popular place for those wishing to end their lives. After talking...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEPDahl, Roald.
Summary: Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAHMarillier, Juliet
Summary: Harp of Kings begins with a sister and brother arriving on Swan Island to compete for permanent places among the island's team of elite warriors and covert operatives. Over a lengthy training period, Liobhan and Brocc will not only be assessed against each other, they will need to prove themselves against the sons of chieftains and war-leaders. The competition is fierce; only two or three out...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019