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Hell Gate Linda Fairstein 2010, 400 pages Setting: New York City Former prosecutor Fairstein adds another fast-paced legal thriller featuring New York City Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper to her resume. Alex is called to the scene of a boat wreck with an unusual cargo – human trafficking victims. Bodies have washed up along the coast, and most of the victims have drowned. Yet one young woman died from a stab wound, and no...
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Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog Susannah Charleson 2010, 288 pages Setting: Dallas Susannah Charleson sees a photo of an exhausted dog handler holding his dog after they searched for hours for victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. She decides that she wants to help in these kinds of missions by raising and training a search-and-rescue dog. It is challenging just bringing up her bouncy golden...
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Date Alan Bradley 2010, 364 pages Setting: English country village of Bishop’s Lacey, 1950 From the author of “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” comes a second book featuring Flavia de Luce. Who is Flavia de Luce? She's an engaging and intriguing 11-year-old aspiring chemist with a passion for poison and a knack for solving murders who travels the countryside on her trusty...
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Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat David Dosa 2010, 225 pages Nonfiction Why does Oscar, one of several cats in the Alzheimer's wing at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, essentially ignore the patients and then suddenly decide to curl up with a patient on their bed? Does he have an uncanny ability to sense when a patient is at death's door? Dr. Dosa scoffs at the idea that...
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Ragtag Karl Wolf-Morgenlander 2009, 225 pages Juvenile Fiction Sound the alarm! Boston is under attack! Boston had been a peaceful city since the formation of the Feathered Alliance, the governing body of city birds that kept it so. But the city is being threatened by the Talon Empire, raptors moving to the city after their forest homes are lost to human land developers. The Talon Empire is not interested in peace but plans to take...
