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Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits....
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"On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels...
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Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial, becomes involved in a deeper mystery when the skeletonized remains of three young women are found in the basement of a pizza parlor, and tests indicate the deaths were recent.
4) Déjà dead
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"In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern--and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her--her best friend and her own daughter--in mortal danger...." -- Page...
5) Fatal voyage
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"The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification. As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
7) Cross bones
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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A tale set in Montreal, North Carolina, and Israel, where a murder in the present leads Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan to a controversial discovery in biblical archaelogy that will have vast implications for the Judeo-Christian world.
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Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Dj Dead -- and introduced "{a} brilliant heroine" (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec's director of forensic anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead. In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more...
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In 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval has a Mohawk mother and French father, yet is remaining neutral among warring sides, but when her British ex-fiancé is captured by her father she must choose whom to fight for.
With a Mohawk mother and a French father in 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval finds it easiest to remain neutral among warring sides. But when her British ex-fiance, Samuel, is taken prisoner by her father, he claims to have information that...
11) The disappeared
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Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"...Anne Greeves is sixteen years old when she first meets Serey, a Cambodian student and musician forced by his family to leave his country during the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime. Swept up in the fury and infatuation of first love, Anne rebels against her father's wishes and embraces her relationship with Serey...But then the borders of Cambodia are reopened and Serey must risk his life to return home, alone, in search of his family. A decade...
12) Clutch
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Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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"A coming of age story set in historic and diverse Montreal, where a young Jewish boy dreams of a brighter future just as Jackie Robinson is making history with baseball's Montreal Royals."--
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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In the wake of World War II, a young, enigmatic woman named Lily arrives in Montreal on her own, expecting to be married to a man she's never met. But upon seeing her at the train station, Sol Kramer turns her down. Out of pity, his brother Nathan decides to marry her instead, and pity turns into a deep-and doomed-love. It is immediately clear that Lily is not who she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters when she...
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
16) Seven days dead
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"In Seven Days Dead, a woman races in a small boat through a torrential sea storm to Grand Manan island, located off the coast of Maine. She is determined to reach her dying father's bedside. Meanwhile, detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying vacation with his wife on the island until he's caught up in the investigation of a murder. Long-held secrets start to emerge, and Cinq-Mars begins to wonder if the two deaths are related." --
18) Crossing over
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eight-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems..
19) Asylum: a novel
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department. The women were of varying ages, backgrounds and body types and seemed to have nothing in...
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
After a fall during her balance beam routine thirteen-year-old Rachel and her cousin use the magical Sports Illustrated magazines in their grandfather's collection to travel back to the 1976 Olympics to observe Nadia Comăneci's perfect routines--and incidentally meet their grandfather who is covering the Olympics as a sports reporter.