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An Acquaintance With Darkness An Acquaintance With Darkness Ann Rinaldi Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of … OL112464W
Civil War ends Civil War ends Corinne J. Naden Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, including the assassination of Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. OL14856464W
Don't blink Don't blink Howard Roughan,James Patterson The Lombardo Steak House in New York has three reasons why it's famous, the menu, the clientele and now the murder of an infamous mob lawyer. The assassin is able to slip through the police's fingers… OL14920138W
Diamondhead Diamondhead Patrick Robinson From the author of the critically acclaimed Admiral Morgan series comes a topical, provocative, military thriller that marks the start of a brand-new series starring Navy SEAL Mack Bedford. OL14924762W
The Lord of Death The Lord of Death Eliot Pattison Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th… OL14924899W
Valkyrie Valkyrie Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus Freiherr von Follows Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his fellow officers as they begin to understand the horrors perpetrated by the Third Reich and decide that they must assassinate the Führer. OL15416557W
The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia Edward Steers, Jr. This book is the definitive A to Z reference on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The first book of its kind, The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia is a truly indispensable guide to one of the m… OL15646486W
Dirty dealing Dirty dealing Gary Cartwright A flamboyant family of smugglers, the assassination of a Federal judge, the costliest FBI investigation in history - these are the elements of this riveting true story. It is a tale that, as it unfol… OL15835801W
The mark of the assassin The mark of the assassin Daniel Silva When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling… OL15838201W
Breach of trust Breach of trust Gerald McKnight A meticulous and devastating dissection of the Warren Commission's work argues that the Commission's own documents and collected testimony reveal two conspiracies surrounding the assasination of Pres… OL15859967W
The death of a president The death of a president William Manchester A self-portrait of the successful call -girl business run by a socially prominent young woman in New York which counted among its clients the world's business and political elite. OL15892502W
An African affair An African affair Nina Darnton After the assassination of a prominent Nigerian politician, New York journalist Lindsay Cameron moves to Lagos to follow a trail of corruption, drug smuggling, and murder. What begins with the most c… OL16116538W
National treasure National treasure Ann Lloyd Benjamin Franklin Gates looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln since one of the conspirators might have been a member of his family. OL16493774W
Petrograd Petrograd Philip Gelatt Cleary, a reluctant British spy, finds himself assigned to the most difficult assignment of his career: orchestrate the death of Grigoi Rasputin, the mad monk who is extremely influential over the Ru… OL16617338W
Angels at Sunset Angels at Sunset Tom Mach The novel begins in 1920 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Jessica Radford listens to the very first radio broadcast on KDKA, which broadcasts the presidential election returns. Because of the passa… OL16803855W
John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth W. C. Jameson Very well done report of actual historical information. Summarizes what some other authors have written and makes inconsistencies in government records clear. Points out many assumptions that are no… OL16805896W
Deadly Censorship Deadly Censorship James Lowell Underwood On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina's most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales's stingin… OL16813098W
The ides The ides Stephen Dando-Collins Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many … OL1707532W
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy Eric Van Lustbader Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassinati… OL17562240W
Justice denied Justice denied Robert Tanenbaum A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is c… OL17736270W
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