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Summary: In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINSummary: In Dee Henderson's novella "Betrayal," Janelle Roberts is freed--thanks to people she doesn't know--after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she did not commit. But a murderer is still at large, and Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another betrayal. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COSSummary: "Retribution: Lucy Champagne was sent to St. Cecilia's after her movie-star mother was brutally attacked by her sleazy boyfriend, Ray Watkins. Lucy's damning testimony landed Ray a twenty-five-year sentence. But now, Ray is free. And he's going to find Lucy and make her pay, no matter how far and how fast she runs . . ." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACSummary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Abelard sanction / David Morell (Bill Weideman) -- Assassins / Christopher Reich (Dick Hill) -- Falling / Chris Mooney (Laural Merlington) -- The double dealer / David Liss (Michael Page) -- Surviving Toronto / M. Diane Vogt (Joyce Bean).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABESummary: Killer Year is a group of thirteen authors whose first novels were published in the year 2007. Now, each member of this widely-praised organization has written a story with his or her own unique twist on the world of crime. Each entry in this one-of-a-kind collection is introduced by the author's Killer Year mentor, including bestselling authors James Rollins, Tess Gerritsen, and Jeffery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHIContents: James Penney's new identity / Lee Child -- Operation Northwoods / James Grippando -- Epitaph / J.A. Konrath -- The face in the window / Heather Graham -- Empathy / James Siegel -- Kowalski's in love / James Rollins -- The hunt for Dmitri / Gayle Lynds -- Disfigured / Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer -- The Abelard sanction / David Morrell -- Falling / Chris Mooney -- Success of a mission /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRSummary: From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's narrative of a dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's story of a horrifying serial killer, this collection of original stories by 23 best selling and hot new authors make this an unforgettable and entertaining thriller anthology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRSummary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: The Next Wave of Stories in the Harbingers Series Arrives Cycle 2 of the Harbingers series continues the story of four gifted strangers brought together to fight a growing darkness. In Bill Myers's "The Revealing," the team finds themselves in Rome trying to retrieve the mystical spear Hitler once owned--the very spear that pierced Christ's side. This task will take them from hidden chambers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASSAllen, Charlene Y.
Summary: "From debut author Charlene Allen comes a captivating YA contemporary mystery and coming-of-age story, celebrating the power of friendship, first love, and exploring the criminal justice system from the lens of restorative justice. Perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, and Maureen Johnson. In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLSmith, Cynthia Leitich
Summary: "Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIDickson, Allison M.
Summary: "Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? Only one knows why. When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicksonSummary: An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FACSummary: "In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOffand adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATSummary: Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOMO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC O'ShanughnessyLocke, Attica.
Summary: "Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOCSummary: A showcase of many of the International Thriller Writers's top authors as well as rising stars in the genre. Includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Joan Johnston, John Lescroart, Alex Kava and Deb Carlin, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FIRSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTWellington, Joelle
Summary: "'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy--a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WELZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022