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Central - Adult Detective
D WINSP
6 available
D WINSP
6 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective
D WINSP
1 available
D WINSP
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Detective
D WINSP
1 available
D WINSP
1 available
Description
"Set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, this novel follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White-veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity-when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F QUINN
3 available
F QUINN
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F QUINN
1 available
F QUINN
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F QUINN
1 available
F QUINN
1 available
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11 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCMOR
1 available
F MCMOR
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F MCMOR
1 available
F MCMOR
1 available
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILKI
1 available
F WILKI
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WILKI
1 available
F WILKI
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F WILKI
1 available
F WILKI
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of...
5) Censorettes
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1941. Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island to inspect mail between North America and European nations at war. Determined to contribute in a more substantial way, Lucy uses her Cambridge education and love of Shakespeare to detect a Nazi spy ring operating out of Brooklyn. Just as she is promoted to a dangerous job overseas, her good friend is murdered. Should she embrace her new assignment,...
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In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective - NEW
D WINSP
1 available
D WINSP
1 available
Central - Adult Detective
D WINSP
3 available
D WINSP
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Detective - NEW
D WINSP
1 available
D WINSP
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned...