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List view record 21: The blood is stillList view anchor tag for record 21: The blood is still
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The blood is still

Skelton, Douglas2020
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When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged the right-wing group Spirit of the Gael which is conn...
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Blowback

Patterson, James, 1947-2022
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He's America's most brilliant president ever. He's also a psychopath. US president Keegan Barrett swept into office on his success as director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with a deadly motive - revenge. President Barrett personally orders Specia...
[15 copies, 12 available]
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Blowback

Patterson, James, 1947-2023
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He's America's most brilliant president ever. He's also a psychopath. US president Keegan Barrett swept into office on his success as director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with a deadly motive - revenge. President Barrett personally orders Specia...
[13 copies, 10 available]
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The boys' club : a novel

Katz, Erica2021
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They made the rules. She's going to break them. When Alex Vogel gets a new job working at a corporate Manhattan law firm, she thinks all her dreams have come true. The pay checks are huge, the work is exciting, and the drinks are flowing every Friday night. But underneath the glossy veneer of the...
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The boys from Biloxi

Grisham, John2022
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs - even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small ...
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The boys from Biloxi

Grisham, John2023
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs - even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small ...
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A burning

Majumdar, Megha2021
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For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, this is an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise - to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies - and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
[1 copy, 1 available]
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The burning land

Alagiah, George2020
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South Africa has become a powder keg with precious land being sold off to the highest bidders while the country's corrupt elite pocket the profits. As the dreams and hopes of its people are threatened, frustration turns to violence. With the shocking murder of one of the country's bright young ho...
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The burning time

Hanington, Peter2023
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Australian inventor and geo-engineer Clive Winner is the genius who brought the Great Barrier Reef back from the brink, yet his ambition goes well beyond that. He wants to save the planet. To Winner, climate change is just another engineering problem, and he is determined to find the solution. Fo...
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Camino ghosts

Grisham, John2024
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A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable histor...
[14 copies, 0 available, 35 reserves]
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