Will.i.am
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On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
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2019.
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In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
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2016.
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Cork O'Connor has always considered November to be the cruelest of months, yet his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry. When a man camping in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing, Cork is asked by the man's family to stay on the case. The wedding is fast approaching, the weather looks threatening, but Cork doesn't return from the search. Locating Cork's campsite, they find blood-- a lot of it.
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2021.
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Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota?s Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O?Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown,...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
viii, 339 p. ; 24 cm
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"When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don't solve the mystery of how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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320 pages ; 24 cm.
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"New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction" (Booklist, starred review) as Cork O'Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences...
10) Sulfur Springs
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Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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306 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear"--
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
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280 p. ; 24 cm.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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387 pages ; 21 cm.
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Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he's hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a young girl surfaces along the banks of the Copper River -- and then another teenager vanishes. Instead of thwarting his assassins, Cork focuses...
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 11
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
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Discovering a murdered teen while stranded by a gale on the remote Lake of the Woods, detective Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, also discover a mysterious baby boy whose life is threatened by powerful adversaries.
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2009.
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xiv, 512 pages ; 22 cm.
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After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane-the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower-disappears on a drunken New Years' Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs out all search efforts. When her body is found during the spring thaw four months later, preliminary evidence implicates her ex-boyfriend-Ojibwe bad-boy, Solemn Winter Moon. But then a second Charlotte Kane turns up dead, and Cork isn't sure of anything any more.
15) Red Knife
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
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310 pages ; 24 cm.
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When the drug-related death of a powerful businessman's daughter is followed by the execution-style murder of the head of an Ojibwe gang, the Red Boyz, the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red.
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 12
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2013]
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329 pages ; 21 cm
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"Cork O'Connor has gone bow-hunting with Jubal Little, Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, when an arrow out of nowhere slices through Little's heart. Alas, the arrow belongs to O'Connor, and he must find out who framed him for this murder"--Library Journal.
17) The devil's bed
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Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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x, 470 pages ; 18 cm
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A disillusioned First Lady abandons her husband mid-reelection campaign and returns to her Minnesota hometown, where she is stalked by an escaped mental patient.
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 1
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Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
20) The levee
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
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3 CDs (3 hrs., 39 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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It’s 1927, and the most devastating flood in American history has swelled the Mississippi River to a width of eighty miles. In an attempt to save a family trapped by the rising water, four men in a tiny rowboat battle the treacherous flow: three are convicts, on loan from the local prison and pressed into service; the fourth, the leader of the team, is driven by his own hidden motives. But to their surprise upon arrival at Ballymore, an ancestral...