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Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a modern America where the Civil War never happened and four states still enforce slavery follows the experiences of a talented black bounty hunter who infiltrates an abolitionist group to catch a high-profile runaway.
62) A darker reality
Author
Series
An Elena Standish novel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On her first trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish finally gets to visit her American mother's wealthy parents and their magnificent home. Elena's grandparents are marking a milestone anniversary by throwing an elaborate party with the influential friends of her grandfather, a prominent political industrialist. Even President and First Lady Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are there, and Elena takes pride in capturing the illustrious guests on camera....
63) Smoke and sin
Author
Series
The perfect gentlemen volume 4
Publisher
Black Oak Books
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than a decade ago, Roman Calder had a scorching affair with the sister of one of his best friends. Augustine Spencer drove him so crazy he thought of nothing but her. The only thing they did more often than heat the sheets was fight. Unprepared for the intensity of their relationship, Roman broke things off and concentrated on things that made sense to him: his career and putting his best friend, Zack Hayes, in the White House. Gus Spencer is...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this brilliant debut fantasy, a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom's despised traitor holds the truth. Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king's nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
66) The fields
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
67) Leviathan wakes
Author
Series
The expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
Legacy of the mercenary king volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 574 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Under the protection of the Orbis Mercenary company, Michael and his family and friends are deeply involved in the seemingly rival conspiracies that are tearing The Hollows apart. With the death of the King, both the Corrupt Prince and his sister Serena are vying for the throne, while the Rebel Emperor is spreading lies amongst the people, and all of them want Michael dead"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization of armed militants bent on the cold-blooded murder of uniformed on-duty police officers.
70) Scorpion strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cut off from their usual tactical team after being trapped on an island paradise with a gang of lethal killers, Jonathan Graves and Gail Bonneville race to stop a sinister plot that will set off global chaos.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
72) The tourist
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman's disappearance on a tour-bus trip to a mall turns into a gripping, suspenseful trip through time.
73) The passenger
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
74) The Camel Club
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing a shocking murder, the four remaining members of a secret organization that simply seeks to find the "truth" behind the nation's actions are thrown into a plot threatening the security of the U.S., and they team with a veteran Secret Service agent to stand down a threatening Armageddon.
Author
Series
City of Nightmares volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a con goes wrong, nineteen-year-old Ness finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
491 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting high-stakes novel, Jane Hawk tracks the powerful DOJ operative at the center of the murderous conspiracy that killed her husband, a decorated Marine, and now threatens others closest to her. Dark, ingenious, utterly relentless, the Jane Hawk thrillers are Dean Koontz at his celebrated best, a brilliant, deeply affecting synthesis of his singular gifts for heart-stopping suspense, unparalleled characterization and atmosphere, and...
Author
Series
Zig and Nola volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of...
79) Nemesis games
Author
Series
The expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Trade Paperback Edition
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact...
Author
Series
Blackbriar volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an undercover Treadstone agent is murdered in Prague, but none of his superiors know what he was doing there, Blackbriar operatives Helen Jouvert and Donovan Wade are sent to investigate, drawing them into a world of conspiracy and fake news.
The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this explosive new series from the world of Robert Ludlum. A car explodes along a quiet...