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21) Season of fear
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Series
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English
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Politician Diane Fairmont is running for the Florida governorship, but a chill is cast over the campaign when she receives an anonymous note announcing the return of the assassin who killed her husband ten years earlier. Because of complicated ties between Fairmont and his mother, movie actress Tarla Bolton, Detective Cad Bolton is assigned to the case. A desperate race against the clock ensues as Bolton tries to unlock the secrets of a poisonous...
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English
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"When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name....
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"It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and in a moment of weakness has an unforgettable night with him. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again. But back home in Boston, it...
24) Bone rattle
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English
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"In Juneau, a young Native archaeologist is sent to protect the ancient burial sites uncovered by an Alaskan gold mining company. He never returns. In Anchorage, a female torso--minus head, hands, and feet--is washed ashore near a jogging trail by the airport. It is not the first. At Alaska's Fugitive Task Force, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki are pulled from their duties and sent to a federal court in Juneau. Instead of tracking dangerous...
25) The dark tide
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Karen Friedman thinks it's a mistake when two men show up asking about her dead husband's business, but millions of dollars don't disappear by accident - and all trails lead to Charles. Then detective Ty Hauck makes a discovery while investigating a suspicious hit-and-run - a clue that shockingly points to Charles. As Karen's and Hauck's lives converge, they unwittingly step into a widening storm of hedge fund losses, international scams, and deadly...
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"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
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English
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"Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Federal criminal investigator Deke Bannon risks his life every day, but that doesn't mean he'll let Kelly Johns do the same. A deadly international gang has targeted the news anchor for knowing too much and trying to find out more. To protect Kelly, Deke will have to keep her close - no matter how hard she fights him. Deke is a force of nature, and he's always one step ahead of Kelly . . . except when he takes her in his arms, and the world stands...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the acclaimed comic book, the movie tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
30) Triple crown
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English
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Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization an informant who is passing on confidential...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Physical Desc
88 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this hilarious, yet fact-filled book, Elise Gravel uses her kid-friendly wit and quirky illustration style to break down what fake news is, why people spread it, and how to tell what is real and what isn't. And that's the truth!"--
32) Wander
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while questioning if he is a pawn in a much bigger game.
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there's Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world. When Jordan Parrish,...
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Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
While helping their friends stop malicious vandals targeting their new resort, aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, stumble upon a dead body, which then disappears, leading them into the middle of a violent conspiracy.
35) Whispering Pines
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Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home"--
Raes father vanished without a traceand Rae knows what happened to him. But no one believes her when she says that her father didnt run off, that he was actually taken. Now, a year of therapy later, Raes mother decides they...
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English
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In "Miss Bianca," a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat," embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at the Century of Progress." In the new title story, "Love...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
38) Frame 232
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When she inherits all her parents' possessions upon their deaths, Sheila Baker discovers their intimate link to the President Kennedy assassination, and is soon on the run from people who would stop at nothing to keep those secrets buried.
39) Underground
Author
Series
Phoenix files volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Luke thought he knew who his enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the chief of security. The whole town of Phoenix. But then Luke wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile, up on the surface, the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear...There are 49 days until the end of the world." -- p. [4] of cover.
40) Fallout
Author
Series
Phoenix files volume 5
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The town center is now a concentration camp, and the last free people in Phoenix have been forced into hiding. Luke and Jordan have just two weeks to find the answers that will save the human race - but the one man who could help them is still unconscious...There are 14 days until the end of the world" -- p. [4] of cover.