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Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character) Fiction Diamond mines and mining Canada Fiction FICTION / Literary Good and evil Infanticide Canada Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character) Fiction Women forensic anthropologists Fiction Women private investigators Illinois Chicago FictionCoulter, Catherine
Summary: Scotland Yard's new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the minder of the Crown Jewels for the Jewel of the Lion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother's crown. Drummond, American-born but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Coulter 2013Lovesey, Peter
Summary: John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's name before someone else dies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOVSummary: Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CUTSidney, Margaret
Summary: Fatherless children, happy in spite of their impoverished condition, want to surprise their mother on her birthday. But how can they when they have no money?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SIDParetsky, Sara
Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PARSager Weinstein, Jacob
Summary: A super-secret operative saves the world from a diabolical threat with her ability to brandish just the right book at the right time in this delightful superhero tale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2019
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Reichs, Kathy.
Summary: Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant--a man with whom Tempe shares a past--to get to the bottom of the sinister case.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC REILowell, Elizabeth
Summary: Reba Farrall was lost until a kindly old gentleman took her under his wing and helped heal her shattered spirit. Now her dearest friend is gone, leaving her with a doubting, broken heart and half-interest in a California gem mine. But Chance Walker has burst into Reba's life--a daring adventurer who believes in nothing except the priceless uncut stones for which he searches the Earth. In the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Reichs, Kathy.
Summary: Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is faced with one of her most difficult assignments yet when she's asked to assist in a case involving the mysterious deaths of three dead babies. Making matter even more difficult for her is that she's forced to team up with her one-time boyfriend Detective Ryan on the case. As the investigation takes them from the heart of Montreal to the mining town of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2012
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC REI CDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ReiReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant--a man with whom Tempe shares a past--to get to the bottom of the sinister case.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIBarker, Clive
Summary: This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace ready to break free and exert its power.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARSperry, Armstrong
Summary: Based on a Polynesian legend, a young Polynesian boy, whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SPEYee, F. C.
Summary: With her mentors gone, Kyoshi--the true Avatar--voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC YEEYee, F. C.
Summary: Plagued by the voices of Avatars before her for as long as she can remember, Yangchen travels to Bin-Er in the Earth Kingdom where she partners with an informant named Kavik and soon learns to rely on her own wisdom and continue her journey from uncertain young woman to revered leader.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YEEGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT CD Fantasy Gaiman 2008Sullivan, J. Courtney.
Summary: "The story of four couples linked over sevearal decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SULCampbell, Bonnie Jo
Summary: On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. Rose Thorn, her youngest daughter, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Ward, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSmith, Betty
Summary: The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC SMICreel, Ann Howard
Summary: In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns, she must support her family and takes a job as an ambulance driver in a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CREGregory, Philippa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore/Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREParetsky, Sara.
Summary: V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARAlbom, Mitch
Summary: After being punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2012