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5781) The late Mrs. Willoughby
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Catherine and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder—which Juliet helped solve. Particularly concerning is that she intends to visit her new friend Marianne Brandon, who’s returned home to Devonshire shrouded in fresh scandal—made more potent by the news that her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party's so-called zero Covid policy to the world. The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and...
Author
Series
Arrowood novels (Mick Finlay) volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
1896: Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of aristocracy. But among the workhouses and pudding shops of South London, private detective William Arrowood is presented with far grittier, more violent and considerably less well-paid cases. Arrowood has no doubt who is the better detective, and when Mr. and Mrs. Barclay engage him to find their estranged daughter, Birdie, he's sure it won't be long before...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s,as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind...
5785) Años de sequía
Author
Series
Aaron Falk novel volume 1
Publisher
Black Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Aaron Falk vuelve a su ciudad natal australiana para ir al entierro de su amigo, pensamiento para haber matado a su esposa y niño antes de la vuelta del arma sobre él. Falk comienza a preguntar los detalles del caso y, con la ayuda de la policía local, comienza una investigación que desenterrará muchos secretos.
Aaron Falk returns to his Australian hometown to go to the funeral of his friend, thought to have killed his wife and child before...
5786) Remember me
Author
Series
Wick Tate series volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Teen hacker Wick Tate has to decide between right and wrong as she tries to solve another murder and discover the truth about her mother's suicide"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages
Language
English
Description
"A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This edge-of-your-seat memoir from former FBI agent Joe Navarro reveals the shocking, inside details of how he spearheaded a 1980s investigation into a colossal espionage breach that would have left the US defenseless in a Soviet attack.
5789) One for all
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Language
English
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 279 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to light a path for Indigenous women, girls, and survivors. In her brilliant debut, Sterritt shares her memoir alongside investigative reporting into cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, showing how...
5792) The beige man
Author
Series
Irene Huss mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover...
Publisher
Adelaide Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (69 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Not only does Peter Parker have to survive the onslaught of the Sandman, Shocker and the unstoppable Rhino, he also needs to find a date for the fall formal.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
228 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Suee and the Zero Detective Club are back and ready to unravel some mysteries! However, other than a bunch of missing cat cases, there really isn't too much to solve. . .That is, until Smartie--Suee's nemesis from her old school--goes missing, leaving only one clue: Newtown. Nemesis or not, it's up to Suee to find Smartie. But Smartie's disappearance isn't the only weird thing going on in this part of town. There's an army of workers in white uniforms...
5795) Holly
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
617 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
x, 612 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths and considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker must continue to conceal his secret identity as Spider-Man, all while handling the pressures of teenage life at home and school. New York City's criminal underworld succumbs to a cataclysmic upheaval as the super-villains try to outmaneuver each other for the top spot. Now, it's all-out gang warfare and Spider-Man is the only hope the good citizens of New York have against Hammerhead, Doctor Octopus and Silvermane.
5799) Deck the hallways
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Even at Christmastime, Shannon is more spackle than sparkle, which is why she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into ten charming apartments for homeless families. Filled with the spirit of the season, all of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help including her best friends, a troupe of far-from-angelic Santa Claus impersonators, and her father, Jack. But their merriment is soon dashed by a heated scuffle between Jack and...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
International edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of two brothers who lived on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and took their lives in different directions but eventually wound up together using horse racing to launder money made from the drug trade.
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