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1) 22 seconds
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Women's Murder Club volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
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"22 seconds… until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge—or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it’s...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
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Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
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Dog Man volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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While Petey the Cat has reevaluated what matters most in his life, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world.
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Dog Man volume 5
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"When a new bunch of baddies bust up the town, Dog Man is called into action -- and this time he isn't alone. With a cute kitten and a remarkable robot by his side, our heroes must save the day by joining forces with an unlikely ally: Petey, the World's Most Evil Cat. But can the villainous Petey avoid vengeance and venture into virtue?"--Provided by publisher
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Alex Cross novels volume 24
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After shots pierce the nighttime tranquility of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks like at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: Washington's own chief of detectives. And Alex's former boss, beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree. Now there's a killer on the loose, a long list of possible...
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Alex Cross novels volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. The Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
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Eleven years after his investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to put the case to rest when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about several others, including that of Marie Gesto, until Harry discovers that he and his partner had missed a clue in 1995 that could have found the killer and stopped nine other killings.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 22
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Alex and his LAPD detective partner, Milo Sturgis, are investigating several murders that, at first, appear to have only one thing in common: the perpetrator's use of expensive black automobiles while committing his crimes. Kellerman sticks to his usual modus, the patient and sometimes painfully slow accumulation of detail, as Alex and Milo build their case. A subplot involves a missing child last seen selling magazine subscriptions in a tony neighborhood...
9) Dog Man
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Dog Man volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, faces off against his archnemesis Petey the Cat.
New York Times bestseller, and first in a new series by Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants. George and Harold have created a new breed of justice. With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound digs into deception, claws after crooks, rolls over robbers, and scampers after squirrels. Will he...
10) Hello, darkness
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For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. But when a listener who identifies himself as "Valentino" tells her that her on-air advice to the girl he loves has caused her to leave him and that now he intends to exact his revenge. First he plans to kill the girl, whom he has abducted -- which he says he will do in 72 hours -- then he will come after Paris.
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Dog Man volume 9
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? Could a cat-headed cop replace Dog Man?
12) Memory in death
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"Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She can deal with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." She can take on purse snatchers, drug dealers, and worse. But when Trudy Lombard - a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady - shows up at the station, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she is plunged back to the days when she was a vulnerable traumatized young girl - and...
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State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have shot her husband in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? D. D. must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood, seeking to understand the inner workings of a trooper's mind while also unearthing family secrets. For Tessa,...
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Shadow children volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Gr 5-9-Haddix continues her science fiction dystopian tale about illegal third children in this sequel to Among the Hidden (1998) and Among the Imposters (2001, both S & S). Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police for being an illegal child. She is given the opportunity to save herself by spying on the other three children who are in the jail cell with her. Nina finds herself both drawn to them and fearful for her own life. When she has a chance...
15) Sabrina
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Sabrina Matthews, rescued from a life of prostitution in 1880 by police officer Danny Barshaw and his wife Callie, who lead her to belief in Christ, decides to leave Denver behind and make a new start in Montana Territory, and although she soon finds work and friends in the church family, she is unable to turn her back on women still trapped in the sex trade, and unsure about trusting her newfound faith when she finds herself falling in love.
16) The hate u give
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[2017]
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
17) Visions in death
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In 2059 New York City, technology and humanity still fight for their place in the world, and NYPSD lieutenant Eve dallas searches the darkest corner of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting souls.
18) The Divide
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of...
19) The Fallen Man
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Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal police comes out of retirement for a solution to a case which eluded him 11 years earlier. The case was the disappearance of a local rancher, shortly after he inherited money, while on a hiking trip with his wife. Now his skeleton has been found.
20) Among the free
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Shadow children volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Luke Garner is a third-born in a restricitve society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police Laws. Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped for? When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion...