Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute...
2162) The promise
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in the new masterpice of suspense from #1 New York Times--bestselling author Robert Crais. When Cole is hired to find a grief-stricken mother, his first stop is an ordinary house in Los Angeles's Echo Park. Only, the house is not ordinary, and neither are the people hiding inside. At the same time, Scott and Maggie are tracking a fugitive to this same house,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
2164) The covenant
Author
Series
McCain chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The exciting, explosive new series from the bestselling author of The Plainsman western series begins with The Covenant... It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The wild west was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples, Blackfoot,...
Author
Language
English
Description
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the twenty-seven-year-long search for her son Jacob-and its astonishing conclusion.
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains.
What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Unsolved Crimes, Cold Cases, and Mysterious Stories
This collection of cold cases examines crimes that are dark, scary, mysterious, and still waiting to be solved.
Unsolved crimes, unanswered questions. Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they're not? For the individuals involved-from the victims and their families to police investigators-this is the most frustrating part of all. For them there's no resolution, no justice, no tidy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The St. Paul of the gangster era springs vividly to life again... A captivating glimpse into a shadowy era in the city's history." -Community Reporter From their home base in Minnesota, the Karpis-Barker Gang cut a swath of crime and terror across the Midwest in the early 1930s. They kidnapped two important businessmen and held them for exorbitant ransoms. They stole payrolls and robbed banks as the bullets flew. Corrupt police and wily crime bosses...
Author
Language
English
Description
A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award—winning author (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years...
2170) Daylight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of her sister's kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo. With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey...
Author
Series
Eva Evergreen volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Young witch Eva Evergreen embarks on a journey to find the source of the powerful, magical storm known as the Culling and put an end to it once and for all.
2172) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna's, but Savanna's body would not be found for days. The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native...
2173) Westwind
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with...
2174) The lady's command
Author
Language
English
Description
Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies--and love
2175) A confession
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher ... quickly realizes that this is no ordinary missing persons case. A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards. In this fight to get justice...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Isabel has been sheltered in a high-society world. All that changes, when she breaches an invisible barrier, and steps into a magical and dangerous city where war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
2177) Copper: Season 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Loyalties will be bought and sold as Detective Kevin Corcoran struggles to tame a lawless New York City.
Author
Language
English
Description
In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple, Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, hijacked a Polish airliner and diverted it to the American sector of West Berlin. Along with the couple, several passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and were welcomed by US officials. But within hours, Communist officials reminded the West of the anti-hijacking agreements...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the US Department of Justice, the true stories of the world's top national security agency-the FBI-revealed for the first time!
There has been much turmoil at the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of late, including the firing of James Comey, the installation of Christopher Wray, the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, and more. The FBI Story provides a look inside at the top intelligence organization in the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.
Patricia Roush's girls were kidnapped more than 16 years ago and taken by their Saudi father, who they hardly knew, to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They were three and seven at the time. At Any Price is the story of her fight to get them back from a father with a documented history of severe mental illnesses and violent...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try submitting a purchase suggestion. Submit Request