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Summary: "It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield--on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agricultur e. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal as she discovers the victim was a childhood friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YOUCrichton, Michael
Summary: The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRICrichton, Michael
Summary: The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRIYoung, Erin
Summary: "A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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Summary: Hired as the personal chef to the governor of New Mexico, Greenie Duquette leaves behind her Greenwich Village pastry business and her husband to head west with her four-year-old son, prompting a period of upheaval and reflection for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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Summary: Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIEllis, David
Summary: Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIMaier, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 1990
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Summary: Struggling to juggle her career as a restaurateur while working on her father's campaign for governor, Jane Lawless turns sleuth once again when an opponent charges her father, a former defense attorney, with allowing criminals to roam the streets at the same time that one of the volunteers on the campaign is found murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMerullo, Roland.
Summary: Left adrift after the tragic death of the woman he loved, Jake finds himself falling for the beautiful woman who backs into his truck, despite the fact that she is involved in an affair with the governor and suffers from cystic fibrosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERAdler, David A.
Summary: Cam and her friend Danny help solve the mystery of a stolen pearl necklace when the governor comes to visit their school for the dedication of the new library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CJ 26Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2014Cavallaro, Brittany
Summary: The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. Claire Emerson's father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted to him by his daughter's touch, so he keeps Claire under his control. As their province prepares for war Claire plans to escape, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAVMay, Antoinette.
Summary: Claudia's dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. She often "sees" things, real things, before they happen. But her gift can also be a curse in a time of deadly politics and social unrest. While destiny leads her to the temple of Isis, to Pompeii's Villa of Mysteries, the infamous snake pit of Pergamon, and into the arms of the Roman magistrate, Pontius Pilate, her heart always seems to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYCabot, Sally.
Summary: The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence--a cause he refuses to support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CABLowell, Elizabeth
Summary: Carolina May--Carly to her friends--never knew her biological family. Ironic, considering she is a successful famil historian. Recently hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire Governor Quintrell, the future looks bright. Until things start going wrong... and Carly begins to learn the true meaning of fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M LowelBoggs, Johnny D.
Summary: Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOGDate, S. V. (Shirish V.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DATZollinger, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOLJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002