Barbara Rosenblat
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Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 19
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English
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In 1922, as her husband Radcliffe Emerson unsuccessfully tries to persuade his rival Howard Carter to turn over digging rights in the Valley of the Kings to him, Amelia Peabody and her family head for Luxor to search for the long-lost tomb of King Tut.
2) Borderline
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 15
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English
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Following a string murderers at Isle Royale National Park, park ranger Anna is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and is forced to take leave. In an effort to lift her spirits, Anne and her husband, Paul, go on a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park. While rafting, though, the two discover the body of a pregnant woman caught between some riverside boulders and branches. Instead of enjoying their vacation in the Chihuahuan Desert, the...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
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English
Description
It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relixc to its tomb.
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English
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Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s...
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English
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Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 8
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English
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Mrs. Pollifax's approaching vacation to Thailand is given a spin when Mr. Carstairs of the CIA hires her to pick up a small package.
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Darkness descends upon New York City's picturesque Manhattan waterfront as Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman, forced to split up as they seek a cunning killer, explore their budding relationship and face a threat that strikes far too close to home.
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 18
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English
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Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation--an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a trip to test a new, cutting edge line of camping equipment designed to make camping and canoeing more...
11) Lady killer
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 10
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English
Description
Mary DiNunzio's teenage angst comes flooding back when her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone (dubbed "Trash" by Mary) comes seeking her help. It doesn't matter that Mary is now the rainmaker of Rosato & Associates, Trish's mere presence is enough to make Mary feel like she's at the bottom of the food chain. As it turns out, however, Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive South Philly mobster,...
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HighBridge Company
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A raucous novel of the lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, "a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan." Jessie, "thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine," inherited the cafe years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters.
13) Hell gate
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English
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"In 'Hell Gate', Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has a contraband cargo-- human cargo-- and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace"--Container.
14) Night watch
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English
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Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Luc’s matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the distinguished...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Stink's parents win tickets to an aquarium sleepover for the whole family, could it be science-freak Stink's dream come true or his worst nightmare? He loves learning about sharks, but does he want to sleep in the same room with them? He's nuts about gross stuff, but does he want go to bed thinking about the eating habits of the vampire squid? Especially Bloody Mary, the mutant, glowing Frankensquid that's supposed to be on the prowl? Creepy,...
16) Death dance
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 8
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English
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Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper has always been fascinated by the stage, especially the Metropolitan Opera. Whena world-renowned Russian ballerina is murdered at the Met shortly after her performance, Cooper quickly launches into an investigation, eager to go behind the scenes. But she soon discovers that the clues--and the suspects--are as complex as the corridors that zigzag throughout the great opera house.
17) Let me go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts of torture. Nearly three more decades would pass before...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 16
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English
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From the world́'s largest Tiffany clock decorating the 42nd Street entrance to its spectacular main concourse, Grand Central has been a symbol of beauty and innovation in New York City for more than one hundred years. But the world's loveliest station is hiding more than just an underground train system. When the body of a young woman is found in the tower suite of the Waldorf Astoria, one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan Assistant DA...
20) Death angel
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English
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Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer before yet another young woman is found dead. Is the body found in the ramble the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or are other missing women in years past? Is this enormous urban park a sanctuary in the middle of the city, as it seems to the thousands of New Yorkers and tourists who fill it every day, or is it a hunting ground for a killer with a twisted...