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Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Kimball Pharmaceutical...
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When Victor Holland came flying out of the night, he ran straight into the path of Catherine Weaver's car. Having uncovered a terrifying secret that leads all the way to Washington, Victor is running for his life - and from the men who will go to any lengths to silence him. Though Victor's story sounds like the ravings of a mad-man, the haunted look in his eyes - and the bullet hole in his shoulder - tell Cathy a different story. As each hour brings...
3) Targeted
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Series
Deadly Ops volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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Former Marine sniper and current NSA agent Jack Stone has a new face to go with his new identity. But he still has the same tortured memories which include the woman he let get away years ago, when they were teenagers. Now his new assignment in Miami will put him so close to the woman he has never been able to forget, he could reach out and touch her if only she weren't under suspicion. When Sophie Moreno uncovers evidence linking the medical supply...
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"Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank, same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy. After posting...
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Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young priest who, during his first parish appointment, gets swept up in the "Crisis" after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. When he reports the abuse, he is rebuffed by the archbishop and, vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police, learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic Church. Later, forced to testify in a court hearing, Father Hoffman...
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Dr. Harry Kent novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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After a suspended whistle blower at a hospital is found dead in an apparent suicide, medical examiner Dr. Harry Kent and detective Frankie Noble discover that she was actually murdered and try to unlock the secrets that led to her death.
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2014.
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English
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"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
10) Infamy: a novel
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Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 28
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When a former Army veteran suddenly murders a colonel in New York, he claims that he had to do it because he was being used in mind control experiments. Surprisingly, a top Wall Street criminal defense lawyer, one with ties to the White House, decides to defend the killer, arguing that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress from his tours in Afghanistan and that it's his patriotic duty to assist him. As New York District Attorney Roger "Butch"...
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Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
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37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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English
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Family love, faith, and singing angels led by Grandpa playing his penny whistle all come together to help rambunctious Little Boy James to recover from his accident.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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The Bears are on a steam train trip across Bear country. Mama and Papa enjoy the scenery but the cubs want to learn about the train. With luck, Grizzly Jones might let them blow the train whistle.
15) Take my hand
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
16) Buck's tooth
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Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Aladdin paper-over-board edition.
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"All beavers have flat tails and furry coats. Most beavers have two front teeth. And then there's Buck. Unlike the rest of his family, he has one gigantic front tooth--and he hates it! His tooth ruins everything for him, especially the Annual Talent Show. Whatever Buck tries to do for the contest-- whistle, walk on stilts, blow bubbles-- his tooth gets in the way. Can Buck learn to embrace his inner tooth?"--Publisher. [This is an easy-to-read illustrated...
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Jace Salome novel volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Zachary County Sheriff's Office jailer Jace Salome is suffering nightmares as well as backlash from some deputies who are nurturing vehement and sometimes violent anger against her because her whistle-blowing brought down a ring of dirty cops. Just before Christmas, an assistant doctor is murdered in the jail amid rumors of drugs and inmates, and the jail medical provider cutting corners to save money. Jace gets yanked into the investigation by a...
18) Summerland
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do you catch a spy who's already dead?"
Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build...
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Castle Rock Creative
Pub. Date
[2008]
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327 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Retired Chicago cop Harry Bentley was lying low after blowing the whistle on a gang of rogue cops and was awaiting the day when Internal Affairs would call him to testify. His cover was working as a doorman in a Chicago lakefront luxury highrise. Through penthouse resident Gabby Fairbanks, Harry meets the Yada Yada brothers and a new circle of friends to replace his old police cohorts. When Harry discovers he has a grandson he didn't know about, will...
20) Driving heat
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Nikki Heat mysteries volume 7
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English
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On the morning of her first day as the new captain of the Twentieth Precinct, Nikki Heat is rocked when her NYPD shrink washes up dead on the banks of the Hudson River. But the jarring murder of the man who knew her most intimate secrets is only the first of a series of blows to batter New York City's top homicide detective. She is soon blindsided by the discovery that her fiance, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jameson Rook, had been secretly meeting...
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