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121) A dash of death
Author
Series
Cocktails and Catering mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly single and unemployed, Samantha Warren reinvents herself as a mixologist and serves her homemade bitters at a meeting of the local historical society, only to become the prime suspect when one of the council members is poisoned.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 17
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fast on the trail of Lennon, a dangerous and cruelly inventive assassin, Jason Bourne, believing Lennon’s employer is the Pyramid, a corrupt conglomerate, draws his ex-lover, reporter Abbey Laurent, into his investigation and must keep her safe when Lennon sets his sights on her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During an exclusive meeting of the New York Yacht Club at Beacon Rock, which she is attending with her fiance, reporter Emma Cross discovers a woman's body floating in the water, and she, when all signs point to murder, must sort through a who's who of Newport's elite.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist who fought against prejudice.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective John D. Coughlin, struggling...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this part memoir, part how-to guide, a self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” goes from cluelessness to competence by using “first-hand food” as her guiding principle, learning to scrounge dinner from the landscape around her and changing the way we think about our food—and ourselves.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Philippine journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize traces her career spent challenging corruption in her country and presents strategies for speaking truth to power and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of the advice column "Yours Cheerfully." Emmy is dedicated to helping readers face the increasing challenges brought about by over three years of war. The postbags are full and the magazine is thriving. When socialite Cressida Porter becomes the new publisher of the magazine, she fills the pages with expensive clothes...
134) The echo killing
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a murder that eerily resembles a 15-year-old cold case rocks Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of a calculating killer.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Luciana Cimino's meticulously researched graphic-novel biography tells Nelly Bly's story through Miriam, a fictionalized female student at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1921. While interviewing the famous journalist, Miriam learns not only about Bly's more sensational adventures, but also about her focus on self-reliance from an early age, her career as a newspaper columnist, and her dedication to the empowerment of women.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While dealing with his Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Russian detective Arkady Renko agrees to search for an acquaintance's missing daughter whom he discovers was an anti-Putin activist, as the country's leaders begin to plot an invasion of Ukraine.
Author
Series
Butternut Lake volume 6
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Years after a high school tragedy, writer Quinn LaPointe returns home to Butternut Lake to find both old friends and old flames have changed and are harboring secrets.
139) Murder at the Elms
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While at coal baron Edward Berwind’s fete, Emma and Derrick discover murder is in attendance when a chambermaid is found dead in the coal tunnel, and, asked to assist in this investigation involving a stolen diamond necklace, discover dark deeds that must be brought into the light.
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