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1901) The Marathon conspiracy
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. But if Nico was hoping they'd be able to get hitched without a hitch, he was overly optimistic. When they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most famous school for girls. When one of the children is killed,...
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Series
Verlaque and Bonnet mysteries volume 7
(Mary Lou),Verlaque and Bonnet mystery volume 7
(Mary Lou),Verlaque and Bonnet mystery volume 07
(Mary Lou),Verlaque and Bonnet mystery volume 7
(Mary Lou),Verlaque and Bonnet mystery volume 07
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valere Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a grand house left empty for decades. But Valere's ideas of a peaceful retirement are quickly dashed. Rambunctious neighborhood children, a fast-talking gossip of a housekeeper, and a rival novelist filter through the home...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una investigación profundamente documentada sobre la forma en que el narcotráfico aniquila o seduce a periodistas. Conuna pluma violenta, aguerrida, profundamente humana, Javier Valdez Cárdenas revela quiénes han sido víctimas de los narcos por buscar la verdad, por escribir con valentía sobre la impunidad y las injusticias, y cómo actúan algunos reporteros o analistas que colaboran para los narcos con tráfico de información y servicios...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
767 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
1905) The conjure-man dies
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Description
Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten African-American black police detectives, investigates the murder of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man. Also includes the short story "John Archer's Nose."
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful exposé, investigative...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the...
1908) The hook
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Series
Raymond Donne mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the rooftop of Raymond Donne's school, Maurice 'MoJo' Joseph's lifeless body is found with an arrow sticking out of its back. Mojo had recently gone through drug rehab, but was turning his life around. He had a baby on the way while also working at the school and for a security company. But was he so clean? Heroin was found in his system and in his possession, and he'd been secretly carrying out security work for a notorious White Nationalist....
1909) A study in emerald
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xi, 171 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
"In 1875, an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimore's white community chose a different path....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed...
1912) Angeles & demonios
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
18 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"La primera aventura de Robert Langdon antes de El código Da Vinci"--Container.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system... Open Season is more than Crump's incredible mission...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 467 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Higgins Clark is one of the most critically acclaimed mystery writers of our time. The "Queen of suspense" has sold over 100 million copies of her novels in the U.S. alone. Known for her intriguing, clever and suspenseful writing style, now you can enjoy 5 of her bestselling works adapted to feature films.
Pretend you don't see her: When a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
322 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.
1916) Season of darkness
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Who was Isabella blackmailing, and why? Led on by fragments of a journal discovered...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men; all of them innocent....
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 57 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Powerful and haunting, this depiction, detailed with full-color artwork, names those who were lynched and tortured in late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, including one black woman, Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
1919) The day freedom died: the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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