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When teenager Merrit Strait is admitted to hospital following an attempted suicide, psychologist Alan Gregory takes on the case. Meanwhile Merrit's sister lies in hospital near death where only experimental treatment might save her. When a body is found, evidence mounts implicating Merrit.
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"The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on one year reflecting upon the brief lives of five doomed sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for their tragic acts"--
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Tricks and treats keep the Halloween spirit alive in coastal Maine. But this year the haunted house theme is getting carried a little too far . . .
HAUNTED HOUSE MURDER by LESLIE MEIER
Newcomers to Tinker's Cove, Ty and Heather Moon have moved into a dilapidated house reputed to be a haven for ghosts. Now strange noises and flickering lights erupt from the house at all hours and neighborly relations...
HAUNTED HOUSE MURDER by LESLIE MEIER
Newcomers to Tinker's Cove, Ty and Heather Moon have moved into a dilapidated house reputed to be a haven for ghosts. Now strange noises and flickering lights erupt from the house at all hours and neighborly relations...
4) McGlue
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"McGlue is in the hold, too drunk from the night before to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the seas of literary tradition, Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard, a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection."--
5) Man and wife
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Cal and Marie Bradley are happily married, he is a psychologist and she a loving mother to their three children. Their trouble begins when Peter Blue, an engaging but disturbed young man accused of arson and of assaulting a police officer, comes to Cal for treatment. As Cal becomes involved in Peter's case, it is soon apparent that there are odd, almost supernatural connections between Peter and Marie. Finally, Cal realizes that his whole married...
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Southern Fried mysteries volume 1
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Avery Andrews returns to her small hometown & quickly picks up a client or two. Immediately, the company building owned by one of her newfound clients is destroyed by arson, & the person whose body is found inside was quite possibly murdered.
7) Instinct
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Instinct (James Patterson) volume 1
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Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.
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Shortly after his wife files for divorce, Rick Fallon sets off on a cross-country journey that is put to a halt by the discovery of the almost-dead body of Casey Dunbar, who soon pulls Fallon into a dangerous quest that leads them into the dangerous underground of Las Vegas.
10) The tutor
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Julian Sawyer, hired by the Gardners to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, quickly becomes a favorite with the family, providing business advice to mom and stock tips to dad, all the while setting them up for his own purposes, but in his plans, Julian makes the mistake of overlooking eleven-year-old Ruby, the only member of the family to realize Julian is not what he seems.
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"Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets-no one ever does-but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move-until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead...
12) Casino Royale
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James Bond series volume 1
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James Bond is despatched to the dangerous arcade of Casino Royale, where nothing is ever as it seems, to gamble a decadent Soviet operative known as "Le Chiffre" into oblivion in a winner-take-all game of Baccarat. But the unexpected lurks behind every corner, and Bond must put his trust in the beautiful but enigmatic Vesper Lynd.
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Hilary Craven has been defeated by life. Her daughter has died, her husband has left her and she is convinced she has nothing left to live for. She has decided to leave England, and in an out-of-the-way spot in Morocco, end it all. A number of leading scientists have disappeared without a trace and concern is growing within the international community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman may hold the key to the mystery, but...
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You're a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for what promises to be...
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A seductive literary mystery and mutigenerational story inspired by true events, The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. imaginatively brings into focus the period of promise and tragedy that marked the writing of Sylvia Plath's modern classic The Bell Jar. Lee Kravetz uses a prismatic narrative formed from three distinct fictional perspectives to bring Plath to life-that of her psychiatrist, a rival poet, and years later, a curator of antiquities
16) Suicide Med
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"Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn't even care about her medical school's grisly history of suicides--it can't happe to her. But after Heather's longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble. The pressure is intense. People crack. Thank goodness for Dr. Conlon, her quirky but beloved anantomy professor. He'll do anything to help his students succeed But is it...
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"Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case...
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 5
Miss Marple mystery volume 03
Miss Marple mystery volume 05
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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Miss Marple mystery volume 03
Miss Marple mystery volume 05
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
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Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villanous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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