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1) Animals
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo's tigers....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Author Rachel Love Nuwer takes readers on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to ten countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers,...
3) Lost luggage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents' Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees--and everywhere else--then sneaks out of her Atlantic City hotel room at three a.m. Back in Brooklyn, when she reads about smugglers stopped at JFK with skinks in their socks or monkeys down their...
4) Redback
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Description
June 1989. Tijuana, US-Mexico border. A DEA undercover operation goes horribly wrong and informant Billy Takado lies dead, gunned down at point-blank range. The fallout costs Special Agent John Marquez his DEA career. Eighteen years later, Marquez is working for California's Department of Fish and Game when the past returns. The FBI is targeting the shadowy empire of drug cartel moneyman Emrahain Stoval. Frustrated by their inability to charge and...
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A martial arts expert travels from Thailand to Australia to reclaim prized elephants stolen by a gang trafficking endangered species.
6) Wild things
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
It is a rare occasion when Annie Dawson receives a visitor from her old hometown of Brookfield, Texas, and she is decidedly puzzled when Seneca Marchal shows up unannounced on Main Street of Stony Point, Maine. Seneca is traveling alone, her husband and grown children still back in Texas. It was Seneca, a hard-hitting journalist, who provided the strongest shoulder for Annie following the death of her beloved husband, Wayne. Seneca helped Annie pull...
7) Rio: Rio 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After Blu, a macaw who does not fly, discovers he is one of the last of his species, he sets out on a journey to Rio to find Jewel, the only other bird like him, meeting a host of crazy characters along the way; Blu, Jewel, and their three chicks travel to the Amazon to get closer to nature and discover that Jewel's family is still alive and well.