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Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Publisher
U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible savior is Rincewind.
Author
Series
Lucia series volume 1
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Queen Lucia E. F. Benson - Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, resides in the village of Riseholme, a pretty Elizabethan village in Worcestershire, where she vigorously guards her status as "Queen" despite occasional attempts from her subjects to overthrow her. Lucias dear friend Georgie Pillson both worships Lucia and occasionally works to subvert her power. Everyone must visit Riseholme. It's the most precious English village that you ever could...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's mean jokes... and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting, she says, is just too dangerous. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson. She also thinks the Baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out, Betsy...
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Language
English
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Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape Cromwell's raiders; now, into Keldale's old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley to solve a savage murder.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Adapted
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
68) The neon rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and...
69) Open season
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English
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Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killed--and others set up--seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man.Signs suggest that a three-year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but it's a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A...
70) Stacey's mistake
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stacey's invited her friends from the Baby-sitters Club down to New York City for a long weekend. But what a mistake! The Baby-sitters are way out of place in the big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guide book; Dawn's afraid of everything; Kristy can't keep her mouth shut; and Claudia's jealous of Stacey's friends. Does this mean Stacey can't be the Baby-sitters' friend anymore? Will the Baby-sitters Club fall apart?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
656 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Armed men prepare to take the fight to the enemy after three American officials are killed by Colombian drug lords to make their message clear: Leave us alone.
72) March violets
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, Bernhard Gunther is a private investigator who solves a case of theft, murder, and corruption within the new Nazi supporting group, the March Violets.
73) Rules of prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary...
74) The blessing way
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Language
English
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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of...
75) Borderlines
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Gunther is on temporary assignment in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The discovery of a man's body may indicate the involvement of a back-to-nature cult. Juggling personal problems, disputes between state and local police, animosity between townies and cult members and an increasing number of homicides, Joe moves as fast as he can to solve the crimes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1990
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
London police detective William Monk returns to work after an accident that has left him with amnesia, but the darkness of his past recedes as he begins his investigation of the brutal murder of Crimean war hero Joscelin Grey.
77) Post captain
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, hiding out in France from his creditors, is forced to run for his life when Napoleon goes to war again in 1803.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 8
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ned, approaching the end of his career in British Intelligence, invites us on a sentimental tour of his three decades in espionage.
79) Stardust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
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