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Rural crime and poverty : violence, drugs, and other issues / by Ford, Jean(Jean Otto)(CARDINAL)472444;
Introduction -- Defining the differences : diversity among poor, rural youth -- Dealing desperation : drugs and poverty and rural youth -- Deceptive dangers : marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco use -- Doomed daring : rural poverty and nonviolent crime -- Deadly dysfunction : rural poverty and violence.
Subjects: Rural youth; Poor youth; Rural youth; Juvenile delinquency; Rural crimes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cicada : a Western-crime novel / by Heisner, Eric H.,author.(CARDINAL)408645; Emmalei, Adeline,illustrator.;
"A small, rural community is unsettled from its routine when an old murder case, based on lies and deceit, is scrutinized by a resident who is closer to the incident than expected"--Page 4 of cover
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Western fiction.; Murder; Rural crimes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Peril on the peninsula / by Carter, Theresa L.,author.;
"Although Alex Paige is anxious to get back in the field after a year off for cancer treatment, she's afraid she's forgotten how to be a travel writer. A visit to an idyllic resort seems like an easy way to get her feet wet. Lucky for her, she's put at ease when she meets a fellow survivor.But that comfort is destroyed when Alex discovers a greedy developer she'd put in jail during her journalism years is buying the resort. Alex knows if he's involved, something must be fishy.She's quickly proven right when his plans are revealed. But the real threat comes when the evil felon's partner is murdered.With the help of her irrepressible friend William and a lantern-jawed boat captain, Alex is determined to save the resort and marina. Can she expose the real killer before she becomes the next victim?"--
Subjects: Crime; Rural development; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Murder out yonder : an informal study of certain classic crimes in back-country America / by Holbrook, Stewart H.,1893-1964.(CARDINAL)143218;
Subjects: Case studies.; Murder; Rural crimes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The lost man / by Harper, Jane,1942-author.;
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet.In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one anothers nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun.Nathan, Bub and Nathans son return to Camerons ranch and to those left behind by his passing: his wife, his daughters, and his mother, as well as their long-time employee and two recently hired seasonal workers.While they grieve Camerons loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects.A powerful and brutal story of suspense set against a formidable landscape, The Lost Man confirms Jane Harper, author of The Dry and Force of Nature, is one of the best new voices in writing today.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); International crimes; Small Town & Rural;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Badlands [sound recording] / by Box, C. J.author.(CARDINAL)340747; LaVoy, January,narrator.(CARDINAL)340930;
Read by January LaVoy.Grimstad, North Dakota -- a place people used to be from, but were never headed to -- has struck oil. As pipelines snake across the prairie, oil flows out and men and money flow in. And with them, comes crime. North Dakota's new oil capital has a serious law and order problem and newly-qualified detective Cassie Dewell has just been assigned as its deputy sheriff. Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard is one of Grimstad's paperboys. Even though Kyle has been written off as the "slow" kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine -- he wants to get out of town, take care of his alcoholic mother, and give them a better life. While delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and now has money and a lot of white powder in his possession. With the temperature dropping to 30 below and a gang war heating up, Cassie fears she might be in over her head but the key to it all will come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a bike who keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Drug traffic; Petroleum industry and trade; Policewomen; Rural crimes; Women detectives;
Available copies: 39 / Total copies: 44
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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land / by Hesse, Monica,author.(CARDINAL)344314;
Includes bibliographical references."Charge that line!" -- "The South starts here" -- "Orange in the sky" -- Charlie -- Monomanie incendiaire -- Tonya -- "Like a ghost" -- "Tell us what you know about that" -- Charlie and Tonya -- Schrödinger's evidence -- The eastern shore arsonist hunters -- "I've seen enough ass to know" -- "Like hell was coming up through the ground" -- Tonya and Charlie -- "They're not hunters at all" -- "I didn't light them all" -- "Someday they'll go down together" -- "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life" -- "I can't tell you something I don't know" -- "Midnight without makeup" -- The broken things -- "Time to wake up" -- Burned -- "We'd done it before" -- "They came out of everywhere" -- "Moral turpitude" -- What happened next -- "It's over"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate--there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to these crimes, is a story of twenty-first century America....Though it's hard to believe today, one hundred years ago Accomack was the richest rural county in the nation. Slowly it's been drained of its industry--agriculture--as well as its wealth and population. In an already remote region, limited employment options offer little in the way of opportunity. A mesmerizing and crucial panorama with nationwide implications, "American Fire" asks what happens when a community gets left behind. Hesse brings to life the Eastern Shore and its inhabitants, battling a punishing economy and increasingly terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. The result evokes the soul of rural America--a land half gutted before the fires even began.
Subjects: Arson; Rural crimes;
Available copies: 36 / Total copies: 40
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Bent Road : a novel / by Roy, Lori.(CARDINAL)502643; Gavin, Marguerite.nrt(CARDINAL)341285; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Marguerite Gavin.For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him more than his past, he and Celia pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died. While Arthur and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children struggle to fit in; Daniel is counting on Kansas to make a man of him, since Detroit sure didn't; Evie, the youngest and small for her age, hopes she will finally grow; Celia grapples with loneliness and the brutality of life and death on a farm. When a local girl disappears, the family finds itself catapulted headlong into a dead man's curve.
Subjects: Audiobooks collection; Audiobooks.; Mystery fiction.; Country life; Farm life; Girls; Rural families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Badlands [large print] / by Box, C. J.,author.(CARDINAL)340747;
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Women detectives; Rural crimes; Petroleum industry and trade; Drug traffic; City and town life;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 30
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Before she was found [large print] / by Gudenkauf, Heather,author.(CARDINAL)341619;
For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, they have no idea of the consequences of their innocent games. Later that night, Cora Landry is discovered on the tracks, bloody and clinging to life, her friends nowhere to be found. Soon their small rural town is thrust into a maelstrom. Who would want to hurt a young girl like Cora? In the ensuing investigation, everyone is a suspect and no one can be trusted--not even those closest to Cora.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Girls; Sleepovers; Rural crimes; Secrecy; Bullying; Victims of violent crimes; Criminal investigation; Friendship; Social pressure; Girls.; Secrecy.; Bullying.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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