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The Negro Leagues / by Harris, Duchess.(CARDINAL)494649; Kies, Alex,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early 1900s, African Americans faced widespread discrimination. Professional baseball leagues banned Black ballplayers. So African Americans formed their own professional baseball leagues. This book explores the history of these leagues and their legacy today. Includes text, images, and back matter, plus a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
Subjects: African American baseball players; Baseball; Discrimination in sports; Minorities in sports; Negro leagues;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Graveyard bay [large print] : a Geneva Chase mystery / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Random road [large print] : introducing Geneva Chase / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Large print books.; Murder; Recovering alcoholics; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shadow Hill / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
"Just days before an oil executive is scheduled to give a pseudo-scientific report to Congress, aiming to delay crucial action on climate change for decades, he and his wife are found shot to death in their Greenwich, CT home. It's ruled a murder-suicide, but their son refuses to accept this conclusion and hires Geneva Chase, ex-journalist turned detective, to prove otherwise. With the report still due to Congress, the lead scientist of the study missing, climate activists turning violent, and members of the executive's family seeking revenge, Geneva races to find answers, stay alive, and stop the report from reaching Washington"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Oil industries;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Darkness lane [large print] : a Geneva Chase mystery / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
When two unrelated crimes collide, Geneva works to uncover the connection, but as her town is descended upon by a Hollywood production company and her personal battles accelerate, she realizes she may be over her head.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Large print books.; Missing persons; Recovering alcoholics; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Whisper room / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
"We waited for the deafening thunder of flash grenades, the sickening barrage of gunshots, and the possible outcome that both hostage and hostage taker were dead. There's nothing journalist Geneva Chase hates more than predatory men. So when a local news anchor is arrested for holding his wife hostage to prevent her from releasing incriminating information about him, Geneva is more than ready to dig into the dirty details of the man's life. What she finds is worse than she expects. A long trial of blackmail and deception leads her to the doorstep of Whisper Room, an exclusive escort service-but it's unclear what exactly goes on inside. When young women working for the Whisper Room start turning up dead, however, Geneva digs deeper--and inadvertently puts her own life in danger"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Television journalists; Reporters and reporting; Murder; Prostitutes; Extortion;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Graveyard bay / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader with a proclivity for bondage and S&M who had recently broken out of prison. In the videotape, he's wearing a black leather bondage mask. With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, journalist Geneva Chase investigates pill mills, crooked doctors, and a massive money laundering scheme in an attempt to identify the murdered woman and find the killer. Along the way, she finds herself working with a disgraced New York cop and a host of other unlikely characters with ties to the criminal underworld.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Women journalists; Gangs; Money laundering;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 11
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Random road / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
"It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase, whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper. The Sheffield Post headline shouts, 'Cops Call Murder Scene "Slaughterhouse."' On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, 'Six bodies--all nude--hacked to pieces.' Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut's moneyed Gold Coast?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Women journalists; Murder; Recovering alcoholics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Darkness Lane : a Geneva Chase mystery / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498;
The newshound in Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Ant then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters and thus, out of the news. Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town and her personal battles accelerate.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Missing persons; Women journalists; Recovering alcoholics;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Random Road [sound recording] : introducing Geneva Chase / by Kies, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)354498; Gibel, Rebecca.;
Read by Rebecca Gibel.It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Murder; Recovering alcoholics; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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