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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white-sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here.This book explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation...
Author
Language
English
Description
A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth. Robert Reid moved his family to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, driven by hope, craving safety and community, and hiding a terrible secret. But despite his best efforts to fit in, Robert is always seen as an outsider. And as the legendary and violent Hebridean storms rage around him, he begins to unravel, believing his fate on the remote island of Kilmeray cannot be escaped....
144) Naked heat
Author
Series
Nikki Heat volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Formats
Description
When New York's most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, NYPD Homicide Detective Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat's murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (2 hr., 19 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 1/4 x 2 in.
Language
English
Description
The search for sunken treasure: Geronimo and his friends set sail to the Ratlapagos Islands to search for a sunken treasure. He soon begins to suspect that they aren't the only ones looking for the treasure.
The mummy with no name: Geronimo and friends go to the Egyptian Museum just before Halloween to investigate what seems to be a real live mummy.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
148) Freelance
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (approximately 103 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
MASON PETTITS leaves law school with one year left to start his career in the military. After intensive training, a mission in Paldonia, South America goes awry, and half of his team is hit by an RPG that struck their helicopter while trying to assassinate the country's president, JUAN ARTURO VENEGAS. Deeply impacted by this experience, Mason goes back to his family life with his family and tries to get it together in a mediocre law office. When his...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to - people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a "reminiscent montage" from a writing life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the '80s - and, of course, the seven husbands...
152) The last election
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Last Election is a unique political thriller about an outlandish yet frighteningly possible—even probable—scenario in America's near future, during the crucial 2024 presidential election. Though it is fiction, it is a wake-up call to a country tearing itself apart. The story focuses on two characters: Mikey Ricci, a political operative who has lost faith in traditional structures following the bitter races of 2016 and 2020; and Martha Kass,...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition."
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Val McDermid introduces her newest series in 1979, a thriller that follows investigative journalist Allie Burns as she looks into the murder of a friend and fellow journalist during the upheaval of 1979."--
156) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, PHILOMENA focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dench), mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock--something her Irish-Catholic community didn't have the highest opinion of--and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn't allow for any sort of inquiry into the...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda...
158) Slime for dinner
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo receives a mysterious package. It was a coffin. And it was gift-wrapped! It was an invitation to a spine-tingling mystery dinner at Cacklefur Castle. Geronimo, Thea, and Trap find spiders, bats, and ... something slimy. Can Geronimo solve the mystery before he is frightened out of his fur?"--Amazon.com
159) Luckiest girl alive
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This riveting debut novel follows a young woman striving to create the perfect life-- husband, home, career-- until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all"--