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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
742) Winter’s mourn
Author
Series
Winter Black volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A killer is watching…Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find her parents brutally murdered and her little brother gone—taken by a serial killer called The Preacher. Now a rookie FBI agent assigned to her first murder case, Winter has returned to the small Virginia town where she grew up. But when bones found by a hunter lead to the discovery of a secret burial ground containing the remains of children, the investigation...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Bates Wilson was a force of nature, like a river. Or a flash flood. And the course he carved through the desert landscape is still apparent today. Though he never received a high school diploma, Bates became one of the most respected men in the National Park Service. Canyonlands National Park today stands as a testament to his singular love of place, his ability to transcend political partisanship, and his damned good dutch oven cooking"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Cassandra Kircher was in her twenties when she was hired by the National Park Service, landing a life that allowed her to reinvent herself. For four years she collected entrance fees and worked in the dispatch office before being assigned as the first woman to patrol an isolated backcountry district of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. There, Kircher encountered wonder and beauty, accidents and death. Although she always suspected the mountains...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era."--
In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know...
746) True Believers
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968, an episode she's managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she's about to let the world in on that shocking secret, as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions.
748) Original sins
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It’s a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It’s a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for duty as an FBI agent on her first assignment. Teamed with a man she’s not sure she can trust and struggling to prove herself—while fighting the pull of her old life and family...
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In 2015, at the age of 97, President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson, whose life inspired the movie "Hidden Figures", the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation’s highest civilian honor--for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA’s first flights into space. In this memoir, she shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement,...
750) Beautiful redemption
Author
Series
Pub. Date
♭2015.
Description
FBI Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox and FBI agent Liis Lindy go undercover to spare Thomas' brother Travis Maddox from a prison term by recruiting him into the FBI, but Liis wonders if her feelings for Thomas are more than just a cover story.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit fraternity of soldiers, cops, lawyers, and spies. Together,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely--they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War. Using newly declassified documents,...
753) Winter’s rise
Author
Series
Winter black volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
One dead. One risen. One caught in between. For more than thirteen years, Winter Black has believed her little brother is dead—kidnapped and murdered by the same lunatic who killed her parents. The news of a lead into Justin’s whereabouts brings her out of her hiatus and back to work at the Richmond FBI office. And face to face with the co-workers she’s been avoiding. Winter can’t avoid them for long because a body is discovered in a fifty-five-gallon...
Series
Incursion volume 6
Description
eremiah 46:14b - …WAKE UP! BE PREPARED! WAR’S COMING! Tears run down my cheeks. “We Americans have no clue how to stand against persecution. We’ve watched it happen in other countries but never dreamed it could happen here.”“Rose, honey, we have the same Bible as those believers who continue to face all manner of torment and death,” Seth searches my eyes before placing a kiss on my shaking hand, “all at the hands of authorities who...
755) The following
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree, the FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy, a psychologically scarred veteran who captured Carroll nine years earlier, after Carroll murdered fourteen female students on a college campus where he taught literature. Knowing Carroll better than anyone and close with Carroll's ex-wife, Claire, Hardy works closely with an FBI team, which includes no-nonsense...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On his quiet fishing trip, Detective Mason Callahan finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. The FBI assigns the case to Special Agent Ava McLane, Mason's fiancé, when they learn of the mask left at the scene. The FBI realizes that they are hunting a serial killer that targets police officers.
760) The longest yard
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
A sadistic warden would make any sacrifice to push his prison guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.