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Ali Cross volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Alex Cross's son Ali is an accomplished mystery-solverand #1 bestseller. A crime at a concert near his school sparks his newest investigation, and it gets dangerous fast. Sometimes it's good to have a father in the detective business. Ali Cross just solved his first real case.Alex Cross knows it's only a matter of time before his son finds his way into more trouble.Neither of them expected Ali to get caught up in another case so quickly.Ali and his...
322) Beast of burden
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
323) Witness
Pub. Date
2005
Description
An Amish boy traveling with his mother witnesses a murder; the detective assigned the case flees with them, trying to blend in with the Amish and avoid detection after the boy exposes a narcotics agent as the murderer.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
As the sole survivor of a massacre at the Boston restaurant where she was a chef, it's no wonder Reece Gilmore wants to escape her life. She hits the road with no destination in mind, desperately wanted to make a clean start. When her car gives out in a Wyoming town, Reece takes a job a the local diner, hoping to earn enough cash to keep moving. But when she meet a young writer named Brody, Reece considers putting the past behind her and settling...
325) The family
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The FBI is protecting Sara Walsh from the man who abducted her as a child and continues to stalk her as an adult. Her name and her life are not her own anymore. Then she falls in love with Adam Black. Sara can't take the risk of love and children, but if she doesn't her life will never be her own.
328) Eraser
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A U.S. Marshal must protect an executive who's uncovered a deal to put a new superweapon into the wrong hands.
329) The witness
Pub. Date
[2016].
Description
"On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was repeatedly attacked on a street in Kew Gardens, Queens. The New York times published a front-page story asserting that 38 witnsses watched her being murdered from their apartment windows-and did nothing to help. The Witness follows the efforts of her brother, Bill Genovese, as he looks to uncover the truth buried beneath the story."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. His purpose is to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. He panics and drops his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale goes back to Saul to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to...
331) The November man
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Code named 'The November Man, ' Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules,...
332) Hiding
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big inner city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new 'family.' Jo slowly begins to make new friends and build a new life when her past comes catching up to her and the fight of her life has...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
"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...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Attack force: After Marshall Lawson loses his strike force team in a seemingly random, cold-blooded attack, he takes it upon himself to investigate the killings. He uncovers a covert military operation so secret that the military wants Lawson dead so their secret will be protected. Lawson engages in a merciless battle with a drug-dealing operation that appears to be funded by a rogue arm of the military.
The hunt for Eagle One: A daring raid becomes...
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C.B. Strike volume season 2
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The riveting HBO drama series C.B. Strike return for a much-anticipated second season. Based on the fourth of the best-selling Strike novels, written by executive producer J.K. Rowling under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Lethal White finds private detective Cormora Strike (Tom Burke) and his trusted partner, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger), racing against the clock to uncover the connection between two highly perplexing cases. Over four sharp and...
337) Option to kill
Author
Series
A Nathan McBride novel volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Nathan McBride leads a secretive life. The ex-CIA agent doesn't give out his phone number and never reveals his operative name. So how does a twelve-year-old girl whom he's never met know both? The girl's name is Lauren, and after she's been kidnapped, she sends a text for help to Nathan's cell phone. Nathan rescues her, but with the kidnappers hell-bent on reclaiming their prize, the ordeal has only just begun. As he tries to stay one step ahead...
338) The cinder path
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Torn between two sisters, a farmer seeks redemption in the Great War.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
340) 4 Movie Marathon: family comedy collection : Dudley Do-Right ; Sgt. Bilko ; Cop and a half ; Ed
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Dudley Do-Right: Follow the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash.
Sgt. Bilko: Sgt. Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces. Instead of training his troops for battle, he passes on his legacy of gambling and shunning responsibility. Times get tough however, when the base is threatened with a shutdown, and a by-the-book...