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Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by recent true events, the all-original stories in Witnesses for the Dead are set in motion by the act of witnessing; the characters who populate these pages are not themselves the original perpetrators of crimes, but find their lives indelibly changed by what they see, as they grapple with coming forward, taking action, or retreating into the shadows. In "Envy" by Christopher Chambers, a sweet, shy wallflower watches as something horrific...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in vivid and pulsating prose, alternating between a young woman's present life and passages of a translated manuscript, Akil Kumarasamy's Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a remarkable, genre-bending exploration of memory, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the costs of caring for others in an age when we are so often lost in the swamps of our own minds. In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's...
4) Extinction
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley--poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey--Ben must choose the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--
In 1934 Eliot Ness-- fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history-- arrived in Cleveland. In 1936 the city would host the Great Lake Exposition, which would be visited by seven...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms. Nixon...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events, from car accidents to incarceration, and how we forge new identities when our lives are cleaved irrevocably into a before and after "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," the saying goes. But does it really? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced catastrophic, life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances of what happens after one's life is cleaved...
Author
Publisher
Pebble, an Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With power and versatility, Humvees roll into battle. Leave other vehicles in the dust as you learn all about the military's toughest troop of terrain vehicles. Little Pebble books have an ATOS level of 1.0 or below. Download the Capstone 4D app to access a variety of bonus content."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A call-center worker patiently troubleshoots a customer's broken printer, while a cartoon character in a corner of his screen chides him for sounding too unengaged. An exhausted Uber driver needs extra cash, so she accepts a pop-up Quest on her app: drive another three trips to get a $6 bonus. At home, her partner spends hundreds of hours combing through obscure forums about the QAnon conspiracy theory: uncovering clues and drawing connections feels...
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