Springfield-Greene County Library District
Springfield, Missouri
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Blasphemy
by Douglas Preston
CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.
Bourne Deception
by Eric Van Lustbader
Jason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted
Heaven's Prisoners
by James Lee Burke
Ex-New Orleans cop Dave and his wife, Annie, are fishing on the gulf when a small plane crashes nearby. The plane's passengers are Nicaraguan refugees attempting to enter the United States illegally, and they all perish except a young girl whom Dave rescues. This encounter lands Dave and Annie in the midst of an immigration squabble and then a drug war.
Look Again
by Lisa Scottoline
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a Have You Seen This Child? flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stopsthe child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But shes a journalist and wont be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth. And she cant shake the question: if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up? She investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own lifeand that of the son she loves.
Moonraker: A James Bond Novel
by Ian Fleming
Moonraker, Britain's new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something's not quite right. At M's request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M's club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they appear to be.
Saving Cascadia
by John Nance
Wealthy developer Mick Walker has sunk a hundred million dollars into a world-class resort on tiny Cascadia Island. What Mick should have known and refuses to believe is that his island is situated directly over a massive fault line. Seismologist Dr. Doug Lam attempted to halt the building of the resort, predicting that the pile drivers and explosives used in the construction could trigger a major earthquake and the resulting tsunami. As Mick and hundreds of his friends and supporters pour onto the island to celebrate the grand opening, the earthquakes begin. Dr. Lam's girlfriend, Jennifer Lindstrom, chief pilot and president of a helicopter business, supplies the aviation angle that all of Nance's books are built upon. Her skill and courage prove pivotal as the earthquake disaster begins to unfold.