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Women's murder club volume 24
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"An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past--with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the...
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"The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies in this heart-pounding collection of 3 brand-new thrillers from the master of suspense. 3 Days to Live: A CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge (with Duane Swierczynski). Women and Children First: When a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into...
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An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short....
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Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere...
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Isabelle Drake's toddler son, Mason, was kidnapped one year ago. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. Isabelle hasn't slept since. Her entire existence now revolves around finding him. In hopes of jarring loose a new witness or buried clue, she agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime podcaster. But his incessant questioning paired with her severe insomnia has brought up uncomfortable memories from...
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Argenta Library - Playaway - New Arrivals
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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An iconoclastic look at America's past: overlooked episodes that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, these narratives bring to light little-known but fascinating, myth-busting facts. Read the story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists; the coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella,...
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Discusses the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and provides skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection and returning to our true selves.
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
11) The best of me
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"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work....
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Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina and is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Then, Kerry meets Patrick, recently divorced, a father to a six-year-old son, and lives in the neighborhood. Surrounded by warm childhood...
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Over 99 percent of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only one percent of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., suggests that there's something fishy going...
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As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In her most recent book, she brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.
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Pendergast novels volume 21
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Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, and sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother, and stop Manhattan's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng of the seminal Pendergast novel The Cabinet of Curiosities, before his nefarious experiments come to fruition. Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Pendergast is desperate to find...
16) Circle of death
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"Since Lamont Cranston - known to a select few as the Shadow - saved New York, the city has started to thrive again. But there is evil brewing elsewhere. And this time the entire world is under threat. Lamont has to assemble a team with unmatched talent - to foil an enemy with ambitions and abilities beyond anyone's deepest fears. This is one fight the Shadow cannot lose. Anything else means the end of all life"--Back cover.
17) Code red
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Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 17
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Argenta Library - Fiction
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Oreana Library - Large Print Fiction
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Ali Reynolds tries to figure out who was the real target and who was the collateral damage after her husband, B. Simpson, is forced off the road in an airport limo while preparing to fly to a ransomware conference in London. When Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious and suspicious accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.’s car, things reach a breaking point. At the hospital, B. insists that Ali take his place at...
19) Countdown
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Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
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"Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun" --
20) Cross down
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For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...