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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Ace Atkins
It’s 1985, what will soon become known as “The Year of the Spy,” and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom’s new boyfriend is a Russian agent. “Gary” isn’t in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies—a has-been pulp writer and muckraker named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure.
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Stuart Woods' Blown Away
by Brett Battles
Teddy Fay whisks away to join Peter and Hattie Barrington in Palm Springs. But his hope for a relaxing vacation vanishes when he attends a prominent actor’s annual birthday party, where he witnesses a heated squabble between two women, only for one of them to turn up dead the next day. Teddy investigates who might be lurking in the shadows and uncovers a web of intrigue involving a sinister plan to take over a cutting-edge energy company. If he doesn’t act fast, valuable secrets risk falling into the wrong hands, but more importantly innocent lives could be in jeopardy.
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Huguette
by Cara Black
After Libération, spring 1945: Seventeen-year-old Huguette Faure is a survivor. The war has taken everything from her—both her parents and her sense of safety. Now, pregnant and on the lam, she cannot return to her childhood home in Paris. Forced to reinvent herself, she must outrun her father’s enemies, who want her dead. After narrowly avoiding jail time—thanks to the help of a kindhearted police officer named Claude Leduc—Huguette lands a job assisting a legendary film director. As her role develops from helping him with chores to cooking his books, she sees an opportunity to break free from the ghosts of her past once and for all.
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Spasm
by Robin Cook
Taking a break from city politics, medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton travel to Essex Falls to investigate two extremist deaths, uncovering bizarre symptoms, a town obsessed with the 1950s, and the terrifying possibility of a bioweapon poised to endanger the entire nation.
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Terror on the Train
by Jeanne M. Dams
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, are leaving England behind to attend a wedding on Vancouver Island, Canada. Opting for the scenic route, the pair board the Empire Builder sleeper train from Chicago to Seattle. But the journey takes a terrifying turn when Dorothy witnesses a person falling from the train. The body of a man is quickly found, and Dorothy feels compelled to investigate. Who was he? Was he alive or dead when he fell? Could his fate be linked to a confrontation on the train? As Dorothy and Alan unravel the secrets surrounding the dead man, they uncover disturbingly dark truths. This twisty, engaging mystery featuring an Anglophile sleuth is perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin.
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The Quiet Mother: A Detective Konrad Novel
by Arnaldur Indridason
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth—for her and for himself. As Konrad digs into her tragic past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder, and to shadows from Konrad's own family history.
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Born to Be Killed
by William W. Johnstone
Big Rock, Colorado, has seen its share of wagon trains pass through town, but never one like this. For starters, it's led by a woman—a sweet southern belle named Annabelle—and the passengers are young Civil War widows and orphans. The only man on board is Annabelle's father, a former colonel blinded in the war. They're on their way to Purgatory Butte, Wyoming, to run the ranch the colonel inherited. Smoke Jensen's wife, Sally Jensen, thinks it's a noble goal and wants to help the women by volunteering her husband's protection on the treacherous journey north. In spite of his doubts, Smoke agrees. The trouble starts before they even leave town. First a pack of ruffians harass the women, then a pair of saloon girls decide to join the wagon train. To top things off, Sally insists on coming along, giving Smoke one more thing to worry about. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But this road has plenty of bad ones, too. If Smoke Jensen can't figure out which is which, this whole train will be dead on arrival.
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The Cyprian
by Mercedes Lackey
Elena Whitstone and her seven brothers are abandoned by their mother and face a cruel stepmother who turns out to be a water magician. After she tries to kill the brothers, they escape by transforming into swans. Their father dies from the shock, leaving Elena in her stepmother’s care. The stepmother retreats to Bath, resumes life as a courtesan, and forces Elena to pose as a page. As Elena matures, her stepmother plans to sell her. Elena must escape and break the spell on her brothers.
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White Wolf: An Evan Ryder Novel
by Eric Van Lustbader
As a revolutionary communication technology threatens to upend global power by rendering all encryption obsolete, agent Evan Ryder must outmaneuver the lethal assassin known as White Wolf—each woman locked in a deadly race to control the future of information itself.
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Silent Bones finds DCI Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there?
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Scot's Eggs
by Catriona McPherson
It's egg-hunt season, but Lexy Campbell is spending Easter hunting a killer! Not even Cuento's Easter bonnet parade can distract Lexy Campbell from conception woes and missing tourists Bill and Billie Miller. The Millers' vintage Mustang has been abandoned, its interior covered in blood. Is this a double murder, and if so, where are the bodies? Why were the Millers spending the night in their car? Did they pitch up at the Last Ditch Motel only to be turned away? Are they really dead? The Trinity for Trouble are quickly on the case! As they start to identify the guests staying at the motel the weekend before Easter, disturbing evidence comes to light. Can Lexy see though all the deception to unmask the truth and save the Last Ditch? Fans of Janet Evanovich and Sarah Strohmeyer will fall head over heels for this addictive mystery that's full of twists and laugh out loud humor.
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The Birdwatcher
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When she is convicted of a double murder, Felicity Wild, a brilliant grad student turned high-priced escort, declares, “I may not be innocent, but I’m innocent of this.” Reenie Bigelow never doubted it. A jury may have given Felicity a life sentence, but Reenie knows that her childhood best friend is not capable of murder. And so, Reenie, a journalist, decides to use her deep connections to Felicity’s past to unravel the truth. The more she uncovers, the more Reenie is convinced that the story the prosecution told is wrong, despite the puzzling fact that Felicity said not one single word in her own defense. But there's one thing Reenie knows for certain: Felicity would never lie.
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The Time Hop Coffee Shop
by Phaedra Patrick
When Greta stumbles into a magical coffee shop, she’s transported into the perfect life she once portrayed on TV. But as fantasy clashes with reality, she must choose between glossy perfection and the messy beauty of real life.
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The Award
by Matthew Pearl
David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him—until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book. Suddenly Silas is interested—if intensely spiteful. But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices.
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Tailored Realities
by Brandon Sanderson
"Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe. Along with the new novella Moment Zero, Tailored Realities includes nine works of short fiction never before gathered into one volume, many available here in print for the first time: Snapshot Perfect State Defending Elysium (from the world of Skyward) Firstborn Mitosis (from the world of the Reckoners) and four other stories. Also including author's notes and stunning interior illustrations for each story, this visionary collection is a must-read whether you're new to Sanderson or a longtime fan"-- Provided by publisher.
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At Morning's Light
by Lauraine Snelling
In 1890 Norway, newlywed Maya's dreams are crushed when a fierce winter storm steals her husband away before their voyage to America. Though anguish and grief engulf her, she travels to Iowa, where her new neighbor, Eben Miller, seeks to help mend her broken heart. Can they weather these trials together and overcome the difficulties this land holds?
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W. E. B. Griffin Direct Action
by Jack Stewart
Charley Castillo, the original Presidential Agent is in Virginia Beach to visit his son when two gunmen appear. Charley is able to thwart a deadly mass shooting, but he is hit and badly injured. Meanwhile Pick McCoy is at the Naval Academy catching up with some old friends. When the news of the attack reaches him, he senses that this is no random event. While Charley clings to life, Pick searches for the men responsible and in the process uncovers a deadly plot that threatens to strike deep at the heart of American democracy.
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Oswego Public Library District
Montgomery Campus - 1111 Reading Drive, 60538Oswego Campus - 32 West Jefferson, 60543 (630) 554-3150
https://www.oswego.lib.il.us/
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