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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The gardens of the dead The gardens of the dead William Brodrick Investigating the death of an attorney whose demise has been marked by bizarre puzzles, barrister detective Father Anselm discovers a link between the dead woman and his own choices in a difficult ca… OL16069925W
100 Bullets 100 Bullets Brian Azzarello To kill without consequence: If you were given a chance at deadly retribution with a guarantee that the law could not touch you, would you take it? That’s the opportunity that Agent Graves provide… OL16654850W
Payback at Morning Peak Payback at Morning Peak Gene Hackman "Life, not death, drove Jubal Young, but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his bl… OL17779417W
Time of the locust Time of the locust Morowa Yejide ". . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold he… OL17879796W
El mal camino El mal camino Mikel Santiago 426 pages ; 22 cm OL17922333W
The whole golden world The whole golden world Kristina Riggle Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her -- popular high school teacher TJ … OL17922465W
Savidge Savidge Sean Kennedy "Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some dirty dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada, with little more than … OL17925020W
Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal Thomas E. Sniegoski,Mike Mignola 261 pages : 24 cm OL19650556W
American Virgin American Virgin Becky Cloonan,Steven T. Seagle A group experience in a black-out room, underwear hot tub wrestling, and the receiving end of a live birth may not be where youth minister Adam Chamberlain expects to find himself, but if he's seekin… OL19664991W
The whole golden world The whole golden world Kristina Riggle Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her, popular high school teacher TJ Hi… OL19709458W
River of dust River of dust Virginia Pye On the windswept plains of northwestern China, an upright Midwestern minister develops a following among the Chinese peasants and is christened Ghost Man for what they perceive are his otherworldly p… OL19985650W
The drifter The drifter Nicholas Petrie "An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind . . . " -- "Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with on… OL20017802W
The hardest part of love The hardest part of love Catherine Ryan Hyde Hayden briefly has it all: a wife and daughter he adores and a baby on the way. But when his son dies at birth, a deep anger emerges, robbing Hayden of everything. Years on, Hayden is living in self-… OL20868922W
Mascarada a la luz de la luna Mascarada a la luz de la luna Jude Deveraux "Después de ser abandonada abruptamente, Sophie Kincaid huye al lugar que su amiga Kim Aldredge llama el cielo en la tierra. Pero despues de que su auto se descompone en un camino rural, casi es atro… OL21447663W
Calveron's chase Calveron's chase Caleb Rand After spending five years inside Redrock Stockade, the ontime US marshal Jackson Calveron sets out on a manhunt: travelling a gruelling 250 miles, across the border from Arizona to the New Mexico tow… OL24252794W
Revenge and retribution Revenge and retribution Josh Wilker Uses literature and case studies to chronicle the historic shift in the philosophy of punishing wrongdoers and examines the continuing tension between the desire for personal vengeance and public int… OL2670992W
Retribution Retribution Katie Reus "Nika and Alena Brennan will do anything to kill a vicious Russian crime boss and they're using his only son to get to him. Yet, when the time comes to execute their plan, psychic Nika hesitates due … OL27690409W
The second key The second key Cheryl Holdefer Three years after losing her husband in a tragic accident, rachel matthews, a single mom of twins, stumbles upon a key to a safe deposit box that unlocks a shocking secret and redefines her picture p… OL27715952W
His Captive (Zebra Debut) His Captive (Zebra Debut) Diana J. Cosby Strangers With a wastrel brother and a treacherous former fiancé, Lady Nichola Westcott hardly expects the dangerously seductive Scot who kidnaps her to be a man of his word. Though Sir Alexander Mac… OL9767574W