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Detective and mystery stories Insomnia Fiction Intelligence officers Fiction Large type books New York (N.Y.) Fiction Private investigators New York (State) New York Fiction Rhodenbarr, Bernie (Fictitious character) Fiction Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character) Fiction Tanner, Evan (Fictitious character) Fiction Thieves New York (State) New York FictionBlock, Lawrence
Summary: While robbing houses, apartments, and a museum, burglars Bernie Rhodenbarr and Carolyn Kaiser stumble over a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Block 2015Block, Lawrence
Summary: Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.Brings together seventeen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Block 2013Block, Lawrence
Summary: High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over the price, and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he can trust to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: Bernie Rhodenbarr and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: Collects eighty-four short stories, arranged in part in chronological order, that feature the author's popular characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Alley 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: A collection of stories in which a killer describes his hits. In one he kills the wrong man and has to do a repeat, in another he must decide which client to kill first, both having put out contracts on each other. As he goes about murdering, J.P. Keller, a quiet unobtrusive man, reflects on his profession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BlockBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: When a heroin kingpin's wife is kidnapped by some bad hombres, he haggles over the ransom and receives her back in pieces, leaving Scudder to track down the killers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOHill, Lawrence
Summary: Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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Summary: In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Igor yearns for a normal life, but since he was five and his father witnessed a crime,his family has been on the run from the sinister figure he calls The Lizard Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2021
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Summary: "Avani is the new kid in town, and she's not happy about it. Everyone in school thinks she's weird, especially the girls in her Flower Scouts troop. Is it so weird to think scouting should be about fun and adventure, not about makeovers and boys, boys, boys? But everything changes when Avani is 'accidentally' abducted by a spunky alien named Mabel. Mabel is a scout too--a Star Scout. Collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAWOsborne, Lawrence
Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSBWright, Lawrence
Summary: "Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the family's daughter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIBlock, Lawrence
Summary: Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Block 2019Block, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: Byrne and Susan Hollander are wealthy patrons of the arts. One night, they are murdered by robbers. Days later, the bodies of the thieves are discovered in a seedy Brooklyn apartment. They are surrounded by the stolen loot and have been shot in an apparent murder-suicide. Case closed? Not for Scudder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBlock, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOHill, Lawrence
Summary: Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016