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Holland family saga volume 5
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English
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"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
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Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 3
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English
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England, 1714. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level as Half-Cocked Jack hatches a daring plan, aiming for the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system. Enter Daniel Waterhouse: Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher,...
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Parker thrillers volume 2
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Master thief Parker visits a plastic surgeon in Nebraska to hide the face that the New York syndicate wants to destroy, but now, with a whole new face, Parker sets out to plan the perfect heist of an armored car, but somehow things still keep going wrong.
64) The hunter
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 1
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In The Hunter, the first volume in the series, Parker roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the man who took his money, stealing and scamming his way to redemption.
She shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker still in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. Now it's payback time! Parker is on a quest to avenge a double cross and recover his cut...
65) Don't ask
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Series
Dortmunder novels volume 8
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Master criminal John Dortmunder sets out on ahilarious escapade to steal a religious relic for an EastEuropean government. As often happens in theDortmunder series, things go wrong and Dortmunder iscaptured by police, but escapes to get back the relic. Bythe author of more than 60 novels.
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 1
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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At the request of the U.N. ambassador from the African nation of Talabwo, Dortmunder and an ill-assorted group of hoodlums join forces to steal the fabulous Balabomo emerald, a priceless jewel of great cultural and historical significance.
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2022.
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English
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""I handle the bodies." Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn't...
68) Backflash
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Series
Parker thrillers volume 18
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the enterprise?
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Ripley novels volume 5
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
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The fifth of Highsmith's "Ripley" novels finds the hero living the good life in the French countryside. His tranquillity is disturbed when an obnoxious American couple move into the village.
70) Sizzle and burn
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Arcane Society novels volume 3
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English
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When Raine Tallentyre made the mistake of revealing her paranormal abilities, her most recent romantic relationship came to a hasty end. Her Aunt Vella, a gifted but troubled soul, had told her years ago to keep her talents a secret. And now that poor Aunt Vella-her last blood relative-has died, Raine has resigned herself to a lonely life. But when she journeys to Shelbyville, Washington, to clear out Aunt Vella's house, Raine's highly developed...
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System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
72) The plotters
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2019.
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English
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Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want? Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters "The Library," Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who...
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English
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"The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbr�uck concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden Doves, the two were arrested for working with the Resistance and were bound forever when they lost everything-including Arlette's son, Willie. It was here, in the darkest of places, that they created a makeshift family to endure: Sofie, Arlette, and a...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison-or so her ex-cellmate, Diosmary Sandoval, keeps insinuating. Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands the truth that Florence hides even from herself: that she wasn't a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it....
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When Danny, now known as Doc, left the cornfields of Iowa, he had never dreamed of such a place as the Levee, "the shadowy, lawless region between the two worlds, where elf and human gangsters skirmish with sorcery and submachine guns and where anything can be sold, smuggled, or stolen," or of such a being as Mr. Patrise who gives him a job, a home, and a new identity.--Jacket.
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In debt to a notorious drug lord, NYPD Detective Vincent Madigan hatches a scheme to rob the kingpin and use his own money to repay him, but when the plan goes horribly wrong, Madigan must use every deception he can think of to evade both sides of the law.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man's heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
The third man : Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. The fallen idol : A small boy is caught up in the games adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife while his parents go on holiday, Philip realizes too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.
79) Stillhouse Lake
Author
Series
Stillhouse Lake novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with...
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Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
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