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Summary: Nate the Great: "When Nate gets an urgent call from Annie about a lost picture, he immediately plunges into his new and baffling case with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade. Nate, the boy detective who likes to work alone, solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat"--Publisher.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHARowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWLand, Jon.
Summary: A Mexican girl on the run from human traffickers brings fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to the sleepy border town where her legendary grandfather once worked, a region that hides a deadly weapon with a potential to give a new enemy the means to terrorize the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANTalton, Jon.
Summary: He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTalton, Jon.
Summary: Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend Cheryl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALSharmat, Marjorie Weinman.
Summary: When Rosamond turns a phone message from Pip's mother into a music lesson with a secret meaning, Nate the Great steps in to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SHASharmat, Marjorie Weinman.
Summary: Nate the Great and his dog Sludge look for Annie's housekey which has mysteriously disappeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SHASharmat, Marjorie Weinman.
Summary: Nate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing Co. 1977
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SHARoy, Ron
Summary: Four adventures with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. The deadly dungeon: While visiting Wallis's castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret. The empty envelope: Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house. The falcon's feathers: Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ROYRoy, Ron
Summary: While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYGoulart, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOURoy, Ron
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2003
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Summary: After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESCameron, Don
Summary: "In the leafy suburb of Booterstown in the height of mid-summer, the brutal and shocking murder of a local woman is the last thing that anyone expects. What is more unexpected is that this murder will only be the first of many. Inspector Danny O'Neill is led on a trail of false clues, lies, and corruption, where the only thing he seems to be able to find are dead ends. As O'Neill tries to come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Island 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMMoody, Ron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 1987
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Summary: Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYRoy, Ron
Summary: Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AZ JWinslow, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINRoy, Ron
Summary: While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYHess, Joan.
Summary: A right-wing militia group arrives in a small town in Arkansas for a weekend of maneuvers. As guns blaze, a militiaman is killed and lady sheriff Ariel Hanks suspects it was not an accident. Some militiamen thought the victim was an FBI agent. By the author of Miracles in Maggody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESFields, Jan
Summary: From the beginning Jack thinks there is something sinister about the old Dareville Community Theater, where his father is the new caretaker--and that is before the ghost of the actor Victor Dare tells him he must solve the mystery of the actor's disappearance or be haunted forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE FIEHess, Joan.
Summary: When the winner of the local golf tournament is found dead in his awarded bass boat, Sheriff Arly Hanks has a host of jealous suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESHess, Joan.
Summary: Finding what she hopes will be an ideal house to share with her new husband and teenage daughter, Claire Malloy learns that the property's previous owner died under suspicious circumstances and that a real estate agent has gone missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESSingleton, Linda Joy
Summary: The Spy Club explores Kelsey's new house, finding an abandoned tree house, a wad of cash, a missing heirloom, and a mysterious creature roaming the grounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016