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Double play [playaway]
Robert B. Parker
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It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers - and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. A World War II veteran, Burke is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Ricky to guard Robinson. ...
2008; ; isbn:9781605147741 More Information |
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Hundred-dollar baby [playaway]
Robert B. Parker
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When a former client, prostitute-turned-madam April Kyle, comes to Boston PI Spenser for help figuring out who is trying to shake her (and her business) down, the investigator finds ties to organized crime and a prostitution franchising scheme tied up in her problems
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Sudden mischief [playaway] : a Spenser novel
Robert B. Parker
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When Spenser's girlfriend, psychiatrist Susan Silverman, asks him to investigate charges of sexual harassment leveled against her ex-husband, Brad Sterling, the detective agrees, though the assignment "shows every sign of not working out well." As the sexual harassment allegations melt like April snow, Sterling drops out of sight, a dead body ...
2008; ; isbn:9781605148472 More Information |
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Thin air [playaway]
Robert B. Parker
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Her name is Lisa St. Claire. Her husband is a cop. Her whereabouts are unknown. Spenser thought he could help a friend find a missing wife. Until he learned the nasty truth about Lisa St. Claire. For starters, it's not her real name
2008; ; isbn:9781605148489 More Information |
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The 5th horseman [playaway] :
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation
2006; ; isbn:1598951521 More Information |
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Beach road [playaway] :
James Patterson, Peter De Jonge
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"A struggling Montauk lawyer agrees to defend a local man accused of murdering several flashy Hamptons types and finds himself in the midst of another trial of the century"--Library journal
2006; ; isbn:159895153X More Information |
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Cross [playaway]
James Patterson
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Alex Cross has left the FBI, once again pursuing a job as a psychologist. He sets out to avenge his wife's murder when one of his new cases has a connection to her death years ago
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A cure for night [playaway]
Justin Peacock
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Peacock's novel features Joel Deveraux, a former corporate-law hotshot whose downward slide finds him plying his trade at Brooklyn's Public Defender's office. Thrust into a high-profile case involving black-on-white crime, Joel quickly discovers he is in over his head
2009; ; isbn:9781436198660 |
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At knit's end [playaway] : meditations for women who knit too much
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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"reflections on the knitter's life will keep you in stitches and unravel your tensions for many warm and woolly moments to come."
2007; ; isbn:1602527407 More Information |
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A Christmas beginning [playaway] : a novel
Anne Perry
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Rumpled London policeman Runcorn is sent to a lonely Welsh island for Christmas, where he gets pulled into the case of the murder of Olivia Costain, the town vicar's lively single sister. Runcorn employs his bare-knuckle investigative skills in interviewing Olivia's family and her various suitors, to the chagrin of the local constable, Sir Alan Faraday, ...
2007; ; isbn:9781605145648 More Information |
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Fidelity [playaway]
Thomas Perry
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When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And, most of all, who was he if he wasn't the man she thought she married? Jerry Hobart has some questions of ...
2008; ; isbn:9781606405550 More Information |
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Silence [playaway]
Thomas Perry
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Six years after a private detective helped a woman disappear, her ex-boyfriend and former business partner is framed for her presumed murder in order to make her return, and the detective must find her before hired assassins can ensure her permanent silence
2007; ; isbn:9781605145051 More Information |
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