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"Edgar Award-winning author Stefanie Pintoff shoots to thrill in her gripping new novel of suspense. ON THE DAY AMERICANS GIVE THANKS, A MADMAN GIVES THEM HELL. The night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a crowd gathers on Manhattan's Upper West Side to watch the giant balloons fill with helium and rise toward the sky. Then the festive ritual takes a terrifying turn--a gunshot rings out, police commissioner Logan Donovan falls, and panic erupts....
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"A major new work from the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne and The Westies: Through the stories of three desperate men--an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther--T. J. English tells the story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960s New York City"--
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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2021.
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"In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are...
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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version-which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966–67 Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won...
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Driving across the city to have dinner with old friends, Marion finds herself suddenly reminded of an experience she had long forgotten. As the night progresses, the memories surface one after another, some more easily recalled and others feeling as though they occurred in dreams rather than reality-all forcing Marion to wonder about both the importance and the fallibility of memory.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret...
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Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.
Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs,...
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IDW Publishing
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c2015.
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In this graphic novel adaptation of the classic Star Trek episode, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock travel through a time portal to 1930's New York City in order to rescue a delusional Dr. McCoy and prevent him from altering human history.
11) NYPD Red 4
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NYPD red novels volume 4
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When a glitzy movie premiere is the scene of a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD Red gets the call. Traversing the city's highs and lows, from celebrity penthouses to the depths of Manhattan's criminal underworld, Zach and Kylie have to find a cold-blooded killer--before he strikes again.
12) The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
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Documents a series of child abductions against the backdrop of the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the discovery of the teenaged killer that sparked a system-changing investigation and influential debates among the world's most revered medical minds.
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"Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer's sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life--usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge."--Amazon.com.
14) Serial
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In Baltimore Maryland, women are coming up dead which has the city on edge for these murders to be solved. Two seasoned detectives are on the case and racing with the clock to get this killer before he kills again.
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A journalist. A sniper. A city on edge.
As investigative journalist Andrea Kellner is heading out of Chicago for a long weekend, a driver in front of her is shot and killed. The city's gang violence problems have spilled onto a major expressway for the third time in a month.
Or is something else at play?
Her career faltering and marriage all but over, Andrea desperately needs a win, provided she can find out what's really behind the shootings....
16) Fatal chaos
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Fatal series volume 12
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Escaping DC during the dog days of summer is one of the smartest moves Washington metro police lieutenant Samantha Holland ever made. Beach walks aren't quite as romantic with the Secret Service in tow, but Sam and her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, cherish the chance to recharge and reconnect―especially with a scandal swirling around the administration.
No sooner are they back home than a fatal drive-by shooting sets the city on edge. The...
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In a city on edge and in fear of a crazed serial killer that stalks the streets, two debauched and out-of-control drug dealers have a very long day after one of them accidentally kills a local gangster and customer. The body of the feared villain starts a domino effect of accidents, suicides, overdoses and multiple murders that are dealt with through a haze of chemicals, hallucinations and bad decisions.But when what you do is illegal, does it matter...
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Detective Sergeant Dan Ferris is close to burning out.
Victims are turning up beaten, and bodies mutilated, and his relationship appears to be on a downhill slide. His nephew, Coleman Armstrong, is on a dangerous undercover assignment, and a sniper has the city on edge.
When Cassie Hart links Dan's girlfriend, Mia, with the kill sites, he wonders if Mia's past has caught up with her. Rogue cops infiltrate the police force, and lives are threatened.
Who...
19) Ensnared
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Book 2 in the Enchained Trilogy. Perfect for those who like character driven stories like The Hunger Games and Divergent, but also like the dark and horrifying nature of 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World. Recent terror attacks on Arel have put the city on edge as unrest brews, threatening to consume what peace is left, and Noni finds herself trapped between helping the ones she cares about and doing what is expected of her. Burdened by conflicted...
20) Hollis
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Everything looks different underwater. Even murder.
Los Angeles 1937. A nasty heat wave and crippling drought set the city on edge. LA desperately needs water, but Hollis Mulwray-the water department's chief engineer-needs answers. Before he'll build a new dam, he has to find out what happened to the old one. Years ago, the Van der Lip Dam collapsed in the middle of the night. More than five hundred people were killed. Trying to solve the mystery...