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Summary: Chasing a draft dodger in the turbulent summer of 1969, private eye Turner Raines is embroiled in the death of his oldest friend, whose demise is overshadowed by unresolved family dynamics and secrets from Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
Summary: "It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate beingfifty so instead takes his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
Summary: England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The habits of the war baby youth-sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-are driving the old guard mad, and when a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair rocks London, they fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
Summary: A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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Summary: When an old love returns into Troy's life, the Scotland Yard investigator finds himself embroiled in American politics when he agrees to help his old lover, who is currently the wife of a presidential candidate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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Summary: Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means he is free to go -- although forever in Burne-Jones's service. His newest operation will take him back to Berlin, which is now the dividing line between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction LawtonTavener, John.
Contents: The Lamb (3:35) -- The Tyger (4:40) -- Song For Athene (5:34) -- Mother Of God, Here I Stand (3:30) -- The Dormition Of The Mother Of God (6:51) -- The Protecting Veil (2:43) -- Today The Virgin (2:42) -- A Hymn To The Mother Of God (2:21) -- What God Is We Do Not Know (3:03) -- Funeral Ikos (7:46) -- Threnos (5:51) -- God Is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation) (5:44) -- A Christmas Round (1:41)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2014
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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWITalton, Jon
Summary: "Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2007
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Summary: Private detective David Mapstone's first case goes sour as his client ends up murdered, and he travels from Phoenix to San Diego to investigate, leading him down the trail of a murder spree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2013