Mezrich, Ben
Summary: Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex-con Nick Patterson find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: When a black fraternity president is murdered and the white president of another fraternity is accused, defense attorney Jack Swyteck must dig into the area's racist history to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIRosenheim, Andrew.
Summary: A thriller set in the Depression-era years before World War II finds fledgling FBI Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim dispatched to infiltrate the pro-Nazi German-American Bund organization and discovering a sinister plot targeting the White House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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Summary: In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons 2013
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Summary: Gunnie Lizbeth Rose has been hired by a pair of Russian sorcerers as both their local guide and muscle through the small towns of East Texas as they search for a distant relative of an infamous sorcerer, Rasputin, whose bloodline can help save their emperor-in-exile as an ever-increasing number of assassins tries to stop them. Time is middle 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2007
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Summary: When Eve discovers her uncle's bootlegging operation, she struggles with condemning the activity, even though she knows it violates Prohibition law, as it is her family's only means of earning income after her father is laid off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Faye 2019Lehane, Dennis.
Summary: In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: "When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020
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Summary: Manhattan, 1778. A city of profiteers, loyalists and double agents. New York is home to a tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Edward Savill is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists. No sooner does he land than he becomes embroiled in a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYThor, Brad
Summary: "In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023