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1) The general
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by and entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve, he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents and fight the best war game ever.
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wings Ranch near Reno, owned by Jeep Reed, who served as a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) during WWII, . One of Nevada's wealthiest women, Jeep has outlived two "life partners," Daniel Marks and Dorothy Jocham, and welcomes a visit from her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers. Suspicious explosions of local water pumps disturb their peace, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and a pump company employee's...
3) Gumshoe Rock
Author
Series
Mortimer Angel mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The agent in charge of northern Nevada's IRS office, Ronald Soranden, has been missing for almost three months when his skull is dropped into the slashed top of a Mustang convertible, owned by PI Mortimer Angel's assistant. Though he is working on an unrelated embezzlement case, Mort is again thrust into the national spotlight. But the more progress Mort makes on his routine case, the closer he gets to Soranden's murder--and to the most lethal situation...
4) Tilt
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
5) As you wish
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Madison is a small town in the Mojave desert on the road between nothing and nowhere. The town has a secret: in Madison, everyone can make one wish on their eighteenth birthday-- and that wish always comes true. Eldon has seen how wishing has hurt the people around him. His parents' marriage is strained, his sister is a virtual ghost in their house, his ex-girlfriend is dating his ex-friend.... Now he has only twenty-five days to figure out what to...
Author
Series
Women of Primrose Creek volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from her ex-husband with her two young daughters, Hallie finds herself trapped in a sudden and violent blizzard with a broken-down truck. With nowhere else to turn, she and her daughters seek shelter in a roadside diner. She has no idea that this will set off a chain of events that will change her life forever or that the handsome rancher she meets there will shake the very foundation of everything she believes about hope, love, and...
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in the second scintillating novel in "New York Times"-bestselling author Brown's delightful new series featuring some doggedly determined canine sleuths and their intrepid human companions.
9) Forbidden
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Blackmail, murder, and a pretty girl on the run Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily-clad girl--Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town. When Mort offers her a ride, she orders him out of h is truck at gunpoint. She tries to take off, but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. Realizing...
11) Prey
Author
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an intelligent organism that is anything but benign. More powerful by the hour, it has targeted the eight scientists as prey. They must stop...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
13) Strangers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of the Nameless Detective, is being harassed by vindictive townspeople. With few to help him and plenty to get in his way, Nameless must work to prove Cody innocent. It's a classic situation for an iconic private investigator.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society ... When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found ... and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported ... But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past."--...
15) See her run
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete, Hayley Poole, is recovered in the Nevada desert, authorities...
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
17) Hot shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood is a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies have formed a top-secret organization with the same goals. When Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is critically injured in a shooting, the men of head straight to Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie and find the assailant. As the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies, but the shooting may be related to a private project: Happy...
18) The bitter past
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he...
19) Connect: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the Nevada desert, in the near future, a family crisis sets off a chain reaction that threatens to bring the networked world to its knees. It starts in the home of Naomi Chiang, a biologist and single mother struggling to balance her research with looking after her painfully awkward, homeschooled, ever-growing teenage son, Colt. Naomi worries about him constantly-he's so socially inept that he struggles to order takeout pizza-but then she has a...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Self-professed diva Erika Greene has it all: a starring role on Broadway, legions of fans, spectacular natural talent. But after an accident on stage leaves her face scarred and her career in shambles, Erika retreats to Paris, Nevada, where she's inherited a ramshackle opera house in desperate need of some TLC. Erika pours her savings into the building, but it's not enough to stave off casino developer Raoul Decomte's avaricious gaze. With foreclosure...
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