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Summary: "Keynote For fans of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, Displaced is a deeply intelligent literary debut thriller--set within a world still reeling from WWII--about how the actions of a few can change the course of history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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Summary: The murder of a priest in a London church that is hosting a secret meeting of religious leaders leads to the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPOHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: "The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2001
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Summary: "A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow"-- Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn't care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Summary: Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: "READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Summary: During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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Summary: An accomplished agent in the British Army, Basil St. Florian embarks on his toughest assignment yet as he, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, searches for an ecclesiastic manuscript that holds the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021
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Summary: Told in the compelling voice of Rachel Moore, a housemaid in 17th century Puritan Boston and featuring that colony's two most powerful figures in Governor John Winthrop and his courageous opponent Anne Hutchinson, From Infamy to Hope is the story of the religious persecution of a servant girl made pregnant by rape. Convicted of fornication, she is sentenced to wear a black W for "whore" on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Macauley Publishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2012
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Summary: Harrigan uses a fictional character friend to give a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearing as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor acted on the ruthlessness, that will define his legacy. Instead Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he--and many of his fellow Bolsheviks--are only allowed to remain as a nonvoting witness. But his inability to vote does not limit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYBaxter, Stephen.
Summary: A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature--German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
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Summary: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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Summary: During the Revolutionary War, a Jewish soldier from Poland lights the menorah on the first night of Hanukkah and tells General George Washington the story of the Maccabees and the miracle that Hanukkah celebrates. Based on factual events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2006
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Summary: In the summer of 1895, Woodruff Parmelee, the son of a well to do farmer on Old Mission Peninsula, was tried for the murder of Julia Curtis, his pregnant girlfriend. On the day the verdict was announced a large and menacing crowd gathered in and around the courthouse demanding that justice be done. Parmelee’s defense rested on his alibi. He claimed that he was clearing brush for a new road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2005
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Summary: Drought, plague, and war have left the isle of the Mighty battered, and its beloved liege Arthur gravely wounded--until a remarkable relic, the Holy Grail, miraculously heals the ailing King. But when evil in the guise of a beautiful maiden steals the sacred Grail, Arthur faces the greatest challenge of his sovereignty: a quest of recovery that leads him through realms of magic and the undead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997