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1) King Nyx
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Set in November 1918 on the opulent, castle-like island estate of the eccentric millionaire Claude Arkel, a young couple settle in as guests on Prosper Island. They find themselves quarantined in a shabby outpost far from Mr. Arkel's mansion - from which they learn three girls had gone missing. After she encounters a figure in the woods that may be the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, Anna Filing Fort resolves to find out who Mr. Arkel really is,...
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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives inMaine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
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2023
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In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a child goes missing--a case linked to the murder of three children five years earlier--and close friends Cheyenne and Natalie, determined to find the truth, uncover their town's dangerous secrets, rooted in its terrifying past.
4) Hypnotic
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[2024]
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English
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A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a series of strange, reality-bending crimes.
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Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, sunning at the waterfalls and partying at the mansions of the rich vacationers there. The family of her best friend, Audrey Covington, has one of these homes. And last year, when Paige finally got close with Audrey's gorgeous brother, Dylan, she was sure it would be the best summer ever. Except Audrey didn't seem quite like herself. Then one night, she didn't come home....
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Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of the line. A woman with whom he once shared a life of violence and desire claims her daughter is missing-and Jason is the one man who can find her.
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Neal Carey mysteries volume 3
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English
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"From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate. Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle, a task...
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"Detective Inspector Marnie Rome and her partner Detective Sergeant Noah Jake are investigating the recent discovery of two dead boys in a bunker beneath a London garden. Terry and Beth, under whose garden the bodies were discovered, have two children of their own, and are also fostering a difficult boy named Clancy. Clancy reminds Marnie of her foster brother Stephen, who murdered her parents. Is Marnie's past blinding her to the truth? Only one...
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2023.
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In 1836 Wisconsin, Catalina's determination to keep her family alive is tested when a bark-covered man abducts her brother, prompting her to delve into a world of strange beasts and tormented spirits as she uncovers the deep-rooted connection between her fate and the Man of Sap.
14) A taste for red
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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When some of her classmates disappear, sixth-grader Svetlana, along with her new friends, goes in search of the missing students using her newfound ability as an Olfactive, one who has heightened smell, hearing, and the ability to detect vampires.
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A woman is found alone and confused wandering through remote woodland. She claims to be Mara Sitwell, the little girl who mysteriously vanished from her home nineteen years ago. She says she was abducted and has been held captive in an underground cell. But not everyone's convinced she's telling the truth. Her brother-in-law, Damian, thinks she's hiding a dark secret and so psychologically scarred she's a danger to his young family. But no one's listening...
16) Bad things
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Three years after losing his four-year-old son in a bizarre accident involving a lake jetty, John finds his precarious hold on a normal life destabilized when he receives an e-mail from a stranger claiming to know the truth, a situation that triggers a terrifying sequence of events.
17) Cold Florida
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Foggy Moskowitz novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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It's 1974 and Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief, is on the run from Brooklyn authorities. He ends up in Florida working for the first office of Child Protective Services. An unlikely child protection officer, but a tenacious one, he takes on an investigation to find a missing infant, taken from the hospital by her addict mother. But the case takes several unexpected turns as Foggy makes his way from seedy Fry's Bay to Seminole swampland and a...
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"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
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"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside.When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
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"1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving...
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