“As the nation grapples with prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John who found a source of illegal income. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of who succumbed to the mysterious disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another [...]
“It’s mid-May, and Crozet, Virginia, is heating up fast, or so it seems to Harry. The town’s beloved ex-postmistress is never idle, dividing her time between raising this year’s bounty of crops; taking care of her veterinarian husband, fair; indulging her passion for classic cars; and adding further to her reputation as a nosy neighbor. [...]
“Dr. Pietro Brnwa is on the run from the Mob he used to kill for. with a new name and a new job that’s tolerable only because it keeps him alive, he’s looking for a way to hurt the Mob so badly that it will leave him alone forever.
Dr. Violet Hurst is a sexy and self [...]
Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourists season when a string of car thefts disturbs what’s usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians [...]
“As the nation grapples with prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John who found a source of illegal income. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of who succumbed to the mysterious disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. After an act of violence against her, Rosa flees with the children and her precious heirloom quilts. As a flash flood traps them, only one man is brave enough to come to their rescue: Lars Jorgenson, Rosa’s first love and the father of her healthy daughters.”
“It’s mid-May, and Crozet, Virginia, is heating up fast, or so it seems to Harry. The town’s beloved ex-postmistress is never idle, dividing her time between raising this year’s bounty of crops; taking care of her veterinarian husband, fair; indulging her passion for classic cars; and adding further to her reputation as a nosy neighbor. It starts when Harry’s dear friend Miranda Hogendobber takes her on a leisurely drive that ends in a narrow drainage ditch. The chaos continues when the very Reverend Herbert jone’s Chevy pickup also abruptly goes kaput. But these vehicular mishaps are nothing compared to the much more distressing state of a mechanic discovered by Harry in a local repair shop: His head’s been bashed in.
Despite numerous warnings from her much-loved coterie of friends,human and otherwise, Harry quickly surmises that the time has come to pop the hood and conduct her investigation. Her animal companion’s see disaster fast approaching but can do little except try their best to protect their foolishly intrepid human. Harry’s race to the truth leads straight to powerful forces determined to avoid scrutiny at any cost-even if it means running Harry Haristeen off the road for good.
“Dr. Pietro Brnwa is on the run from the Mob he used to kill for. with a new name and a new job that’s tolerable only because it keeps him alive, he’s looking for a way to hurt the Mob so badly that it will leave him alone forever.
Dr. Violet Hurst is a sexy and self destructive palentologist in the employ of a reclusive billionaire whose obsession with an urban legend living in the woodsof Minnesota can’t possibly be justified. Or can it?
The offer of a job protecting Violet while she finds out could be just the opportunity Pietro’s been looking for. Alternatively, of course, it could be a hellish morass of murder, corruption, insanity, and international drug smuggling, not to mention the occasional lake monster. With Pietro Brnwa involved, the odds are guaranteed. Things are about to get wild.
Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourists season when a string of car thefts disturbs what’s usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a Burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summer concert destination may have run afoul of the law.
Anf when a mysterious figure from Jesse’s past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in paradise, especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.
“PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey Shore with her parents. But the weekend gets off to an early start Thursday when Regan’s mother, famous suspense novelist Nora Regan Reilly, asks her to come immediately.
Nora’s childhood friend, Karen Frawley, just learned that her mother, Edna Frawley, has sold the family hoe at the Jersey Shore and is having a garage sale. Included in the sale is everything the beautiful young actress Cleo Paradise left behind when she recently rented the house. Karen asks Nora to please go to the house and curtail any other outrageous antics her mother might have in mind.
Regan and Nora arrive at the Frawley home to find a mob of Cleo’s biggest fans waiting at the front gate. And once inside the house, Regan becomes suspicious. Why did Cleo leave so suddenly that her belongings were left behind? And where is Cleo? It isn’t long before Regan finds herself searching for Cleo, whose next hours may be her last.”
“A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New york City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: In ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse -far worse- than mere Armageddon”
“Although his father had been reluctant to become a field operative. Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a season Special Forces drill instructor, he’s honing his skills to transition his work within The Campus from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists whereever he can-even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for relection as President of the Unted states.
But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and he personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack Sr. launches a privately funded vendetta to discredit him by connecting the presidential canidate to a mysterious killing in the past by John Clark, his long time ally. A shadowy mercenary team is dispatched to capture the former Navy SEAL.
With Clark on the run, it’s up to Jack Ryan Jr. along with Ding Chavez, Dominic Caruso, and the rest of the Campus team, to stop a threat emerging in the middle east: A corrupt Pakistani General has entered a deadly pact with a fanatical terrorist to procure nuclear warheads, which can be used to black mail any world power into submission.”
“When the stock markets crash and the U.S. economy falls into a crippling recession, everything changes for newly elected president Kenneth Phoenix. Politically exhausted from a bruising and divisive election, Phoenix must order a series of massive tax cuts and wipe out entire cabinet level departments to reduce goverment spending. with reductions in education and transportation, an incapacitated National guard, and the loss of public safety budgets, entire communities of armed citizens band together for survival and mutual protection. Against this dismal backdrop, a SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stole by a group calling themselves the Knights of the True Republic. Is the battle against the goverment about to be taken to a new and deadlier level?
In this time of crisis, a citizen organization rises to the task of protecting their fellow countrymen: the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), the U.S. Air Force auxillary. The Nevada Wing-led by retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, his son Bradley, and other volunteers-uses their military skils in the sky and on the ground to hunt down violent terrorists. But how will Patrick respond when extremists launch a catastrophic dirty bomb attack in Reno, spreading radiological fallout for miles? And when Bradley is caught in a deadly double-cross that jeopardizes the CAP, Patrick will have to fight to find out where his friends loyalties lie: Are they with him and the CAP or with the terrorists”
You can find A Time for Patriots in the new fiction book section of the library
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“Ike Parsons is the Sheriff of a small Montana town, with a reputation for fairness, common sense, and kindness. When he hears that Chas Stubblefield has fallen on hard times in the bitter winter, he heads out to the rancher’s spread o offer assistance. What Ike finds shocks him to his core: cattle starving in the snow, or freezing where they stand, and a brooding Stubblefield near bankruptcy, living off the meat of his dying herd, too proud to accept help.”
“Stubblefield is the heir of an old Montana family; Ike, a Wisconsin native, came west to marry a daughter of another rancher. As sheriff, Ike is something of an outsider, caught between one ranchers rights and the larger law of the community. His attempt to help backfires, and Ike is troubled to learn the Chas is gathering support in town among people who believe that a man’s land and property are his own to use as he chooses. But Ike does not know that the rancher is planning revenge, a plot that will target Ike’s wife, Pattiann a woman with a past her husband does not fully understand, a past in which Chas Stubblefield figured intimately.”
You can find Winter Range in the new fiction book section of the library