Doctorow, Cory
Summary: The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCDoctorow, Cory
Summary: "New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCSachar, Louis
Summary: A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SACDiehl, William.
Summary: In Chicago, a series of murders has the hallmark of Aaron Stampler, the altar boy who butchered a bishop and whom lawyer Martin Vail saved from the electric chair. But Stampler is in jail--unless. The nagging thought sends Vail into a panic when his woman becomes a target. By the author of Primal Fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEHLMartin, Kat.
Summary: Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. All six feet three obscenely wealthy, good-looking inches of him. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house. Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARWillberg, T. A.
Summary: "The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: 'One of the new recruits is not to be trusted...' It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard. The newspapers call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second-year Marion Lane is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSchneider, Robyn
Summary: Free to practice magic openly as the only female wizard in Camelot, Emry explores her powers are she grows closer to Prince Arthur, but when her magic grows increasingly dangerous and erratic, Emry turns to an eccentric alchemist for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYEffinger, George Alec.
Summary: "Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EFFOffutt, Chris
Summary: "Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFPryor, Mark
Summary: "Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Nazi flags dangling from the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower defaced with German propaganda, Parisians have little to celebrate as Christmas approaches. Police Inspector Henri Lefort's wishes for a quiet holiday season are dashed when the Gestapo orders him to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Viktor Brandt, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYParisi, Mark
Summary: While snooping through his sister's diary, Marty finds a partially torn-out page that suggests he maybe a werewolf and he's determined to protect his classmates from himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARAbtahi, Olivia
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi sets out to find her voice and win her local Battle of the Bands contest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABTSummary: "The second season of Merlin sees our hero battle deadly assassins, magical monsters and ever more powerful sorcerers as he strives to fulfill his destiny as Prince Arthur's protector. All the while, Merlin must work harder than ever to conceal his growing magical powers, as King Uther redoubles his war against magic. Merlin faces his most formidable opponent yet as an ancient evil buried deep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADVKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, sets out to stop a group of librarians bent on destroying a shipment of video games, while a group of students known as the Breakfast Bunch provides back-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Krosoczke 2009Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KRO (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Lucke, Deb
Summary: When her familiars try to make a meanness potion to get rid of Grunhilda's nice feelings, they accidentally make a positivitiy potion that affects everyone in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LUCCarcaterra, Lorenzo
Summary: A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect-- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes the heat, but privately, she proclaims her innocence. Then the body of an unidentified...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: "In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tetra Media Fiction 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREShea, Susan C.
Summary: "After finding herself mixed up in a murder investigation the previous Summer, Katherine Goff's life simply has not been the same. Her husband has been in the US recording a new album, the Burgundy region locals are finally starting to see her as a real neighbor, and Katherine has even started helping out with 'tourist' excursions. It seems she's finally found her place in the small community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEWilliams, Timothy.
Summary: April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises--for example,the fact that every witness Anne Marie interviews grills her about when she's going to get remarried. She is only just starting to investigate the increasingly suspicious suicide of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILMeyer, Marissa
Summary: Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw his comics, host regular D&D night with his friends, work at his parents’ vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he comes across a mysterious twenty-sided dice and finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, everything Jude has ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYRyan, Jennifer
Summary: "One minute down-on-his-luck rancher Austin Hubbard slept soundly, the next, a sassy spitfire dumped a pitcher of water on his head and woke him up--in more ways than one. Hired to help him rebuild his ranch, Sonya Tucker ends up helping him put the tattered pieces of his life back together. The capable, all-business accountant is on a mission to get the ranch up and running, but can he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019