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121) The peripheral
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...
122) The devil you know
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya has had a price on her head from the day she escaped the TechCorps. Genetically engineered for genius and trained for revolution, there's only one thing she can't do--forget... Gray has finally broken free of the Protectorate, but he can't escape the time bomb in his head. His body is rejecting his modifications, and his months are numbered. When Maya's team uncovers an operation trading in genetically enhanced children, she'll do anything to...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
291 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way -- but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.
124) Behind every lie
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"If you can't remember it, how do you prove you didn't do it? Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can't remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London--Kat's former home--for answers. But as she unravels her mother's carefully held secrets,...
125) Final target
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The mission is simple. Drop into the Mexican jungle, infiltrate a drug cartel's compound, and extract a DEA agent who's been kidnapped and tortured. But when Jonathan Grave and his partner Boxers retrieve the hostage and return to the exfil point, all hell breaks loose. They're ambushed by the cartel. Abandoned by their chopper. Attacked on all sides with no means of escape, no contacts, and no allies. Their only hope of survival lies inside the...
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren’t easily left behind...
“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic...
“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic...
128) A door in the dark
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ren Monroe is one of the best wizards in her generation, but top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before holidays: Theo's punishment is to travel home with the scholarship kids. A fight breaks out, and in the chaos the portal spell malfunctions....
129) Cold-blooded liar
Author
Series
San Diego case files volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Reeves is a kindhearted psychologist who treats court-ordered clients. After one of his earliest patients--a pathological liar--starts revealing plausible new details from a long-unsolved serial murder case, he's compelled to report anonymously to the SDPD tip line, though his attempts to respect patient confidentiality land him facedown and cuffed by the aggressive (and cute) Detective McKittrick. San Diego homicide detective Kit McKittrick...
130) The girls I've been
Author
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's proťǧ. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial. And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she's moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister's killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere--and feared what might happen if she...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
134) Tracking game
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex. An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb and Cole Walker reeling into the night, where they discover a burning van and beside it the body of outfitter Nate Fletcher. But the explosion didn't kill Nate--it was two gunshots to the heart. The investigation leads them...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every town needs a hero--and Detective Cal Farrell fits the bill. He stopped an active shooter six months earlier, and now he's become the darling of the Alexandria press. The problem is that Cal remembers nothing from that day. He's working with a psychiatrist to recover his memories, but hasn't had much luck. Then, on one of his morning runs, he is once again the first on scene for a grisly discovery--a body hanging impossibly high on a tree. Soon...
136) The lies we told
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while Rebecca became the risk taker.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Squre Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
530 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there is a third child who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of...
138) The lost souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Dan Padavona
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiler Scarlett Bell knows her job will require her to enter the minds of murderers. But when she joins forces with fugitive Logan Wolf to track a deranged serial killer in Georgia, she learns the true meaning of fear. In the dead of night, a couple out for a moonlight walk discovers a woman's severed head on a well-traveled bridge. She isn't the first victim, and she won't be the last. While Scarlett follows the evidence...
139) The color of lies
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.