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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
631 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie's holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery. Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London...
3422) Moonshadows
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving to Ketchum, Idaho, photographer Nellie Burns takes pictures of a dead body she discovers, but after the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she finds evidence of opium addiction, obssession, and plans for revenge among the town's residents.
3423) The death instinct
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
691 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
3424) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
497 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamor hide a dark and violent past as an extractor-a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses over...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1038 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Dr. Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 391 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
3428) The lost ones
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
489 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, newly-elected sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, he finds a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoebox full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town -- but Colson's sure they'll come back for the cash. Convinced that they have a taste for guns, drugs, and human trafficking, Colson and Deputy Lillie Virgil find a link between...
3429) Now that I've found you
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted. Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actor, her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 380 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts,...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The gothic old Peabody School will be the perfect place to hold a charity haunted house... until a wealthy socialite is found dead in the gloomy halls. Can the Simmons sisters narrow down the list of suspects, or will they reach a dead end?
3433) The Dark Knight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman...
3434) Pumpkin spice peril
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers--Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers. Until one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead. Local glass artist and cupcake lover Rene Fischer-Klein has always suffered from a wide variety of health issues. In an effort to cheer her up, her doting...
3435) Deliberate evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem’s influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen.
A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne—who...
3436) Deliberate evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem’s influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen.
A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne—who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a sunlit morning in September 1978, a sloop drifts aimlessly across the Chesapeake Bay. The cabin reveals signs of a struggle, and “classified” documents, live 9 mm cartridges, and a top-secret “burst” satellite communications transmitter are discovered aboard. But where is the boat’s owner, former CIA officer John Paisley?
One man may hold the key to finding out. Tennent “Pete” Bagley was once a rising star in America’s spy aristocracy,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his...
3440) Quick study
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
467 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting, but he hasn't really invited her on any stakeouts. Things do rev up when a friend asks her for help finding his nephew -- the same missing boy Bobby pulled from the Hudson days earlier. The boy's employer calls it a suicide, but Alison and Bobby, not convinced, take the case into their own hands.