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Series
Jason Bourne series volume 17
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous or as cruelly inventive as the assassin who calls himself Lennon. Bourne thought he had Lennon cornered in Iceland, only to have the killer escape in a fiery explosion. Now Lennon's trail leads Bourne to New York and then to Washington--and the body count rises with each deadly encounter. But who is Lennon working for? Bourne believes the assassin has a shadowy new employer called...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary novel portraying one of the greatest untold love stories in American politics. In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline-and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign-and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor-turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new...
243) Ellipses: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Biracial and bisexual, Lily learns to navigate high society parties, microaggressions at work and her relationship with her girlfriend after accepting a ride home from a fashion world business titan who can advance her career and love life.
244) One summer
Author
Series
Celebrity Magazine series volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The assignment: a fabulous coast-to-coast photo tour of the U.S.A. The problem: straight-shooting photojournalist Shade Colby didn't believe in unity--he always worked alone. The catch: if he wanted this job, he'd have to spend the summer with Bryan Mitchell, a sexy society photographer--who was as great a temptation as the assignment itself!
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dublin, 1943. Actress Julia Bridges disappears. She was last seen entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick, who is later put on trial for the murder of a woman whose abortion she facilitated. But it’s never proved that Gloria had a hand in Julia’s death—and Julia’s body has never been found. Gloria, however, is sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane, where she’s found dead a few years later from an apparent suicide,...
246) Second nature
Author
Series
Celebrity Magazine series volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Getting an exclusive interview with notoriously reclusive horror writer Hunter Brown was all Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe ever wanted. And when Hunter agrees to the interview on the condition that Lee conduct it on a camping trip, she can hardly refuse. But after spending some time alone with the seductively mysterious author, Lee discovers the only thing she wants exclusively is Hunter.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Her glamorous life as a style reporter transformed after an incident that relegates her to the obituary desk, Valerie Vane receives an anonymous suggestion to investigate the suspicious death of a graffiti artist. Original. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and drugged two years earlier, investigative crime journalist Signe Gates, when a murder in Yosemite is connected to her missing hours, embarks on a dangerous journey to solve a crime, get justice for the crimes committed against her and overcome her demons.
Investigative crime journalist Signe Gates's life became a nightmare the day she was kidnapped and drugged. After forty-eight missing hours she woke to a blur of unsettling memories...
251) Where demons hide
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, Rebecca is determined to find out what. Was she killed by supernatural means, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation? Rebecca's investigation leads her to a mysterious cult and local drug dealings. But what she doesn't know is that crime matriarch Mo Burke still has her in her crosshairs. Mo wants payback for the death of her son,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a rural Wiltshire town lies the Devil's Corridor--a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one--Olivia--was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby, so she cannot believe her luck when she discovers a butterfly never before...
255) Sira
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace serenity with her British diplomat husband, Marcus, and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But tranquility proves elusive. Fate has other plans for Sira. Installed in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and enmeshed in the murky world of shady operators, political menace, and catastrophic violence, Sira finds her future with Marcus put to the ultimate test. Forced...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before flames engulf the city. Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor...
257) Sira
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. Entre hechos históricos que marcarán...
Author
Series
Jane Benjamin novels volume 3
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR's Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America's winning World War II--and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn't want those women at work. During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been twelve long years since Detective Kawika Wong was tasked with solving the brutal murder of the infamous real-estate developer Ralph Fortunato-a case that led to more bodies than answers and a slew of complicated and ancient secrets, a case that made his career. Now, the once rookie detective is next in line to be Honolulu's next Chief of Police. But all is not well on Oʻahu or the Big Island. For weeks, Kawika and his team have failed...
260) Under the tulip tree
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena's banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers' Project. There, she meets...
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