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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.
Winner of the Hammett Prize
It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during...
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Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
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2017.
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English
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A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark award winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME . My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico....
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Lone Star hero's love stories volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of a beautiful woman--but first he'll have to right the wrongs that were done to her. Major Ethan Kelly has never been able to absolve himself of the guilt he feels for raiding a woman's home shortly before he was taken prisoner during the Civil War. He is struggling to get through each day until he once again crosses paths with Lizbeth Barclay--the very woman he is trying...
4) Smokescreen
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Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
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2023.
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English
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
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c2008
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English
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Summoned by Lucas Davenport to investigate a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings.
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An Assassin. A War Profiteer. A Deadly Arms Deals.Assassins kill guilty criminals.Assassin Anna Robinson kills guilty people. She never kills innocent ones. Anna stalks a war profiteer.A lot more than Anna realises depends on her.An unputdownable, exciting and enthralling crime story.BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection Volume 4.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
10) The reader
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Translation of a German novel about the erotic awakening of fifteen-year-old Michael Berg who engages in a secret affair with a mysterious older woman.
11) Tough cookie
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Caterer Goldy Schulz, temporarily shut down while her kitchen is remodeled, must cook up a quick crime-solving recipe when she makes arrangements to sell an item from her husband's collection of war memorabilia, only to have her buyer turn up suspiciously dead on the ski slopes.
12) Spider bones
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Temperance Brennan investigates the death of a man who was believed to have died almost forty years earlier in Vietnam and whose dog tags were found on another corpse, while also examining the remains of an adolescent boy who was found offshore and may have been the victim of a shark attack.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
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Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
15) The confession
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English
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Ian Rutledge looks into the case of a dying man who confessed to murdering his cousin during the Great War.
16) Masaryk Station
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English
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Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties, a paradise for spies. John Russell works for...
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DK
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Anakin Skywalker--a Jedi Knight--and Ahsoka--Anakin's padawan--travel throughout the galaxy battling droids and monsters, and introduces the reader to the notorious Jabba the Hutt, a large slug-like alien crime lord.
18) A lonely death
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Inspector Ian Rutledge novels volume 13
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English
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Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge puts his job, reputation, and life on the line to find the killer of four veterans of the Great War who were murdered in a Sussex village.
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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To fulfill his do-or-die mission for the dark masters he serves, the dreaded Darth Maul must take on a bloodthirsty prison warden, a cannibal gang, cutthroat crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and an unspeakable alien horror in order to capture the ultimate weapon: an object that will enable the Sith to conquer the galaxy. Set before the events of Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace.
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