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The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in thier small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost -- until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods... A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It's a triumphant story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing... Adapated from back...
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When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had...
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"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
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On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past,...
6) Obsession
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Alex Delaware novels volume 21
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Tanya Bigelow asks Dr. Alex Delaware to help her uncover the truth about her aunt's deathbed murder confession, and Alex's search for the unknown victim leads him into L.A.'s seedy underside and a new murder case with explosive links to the past.
7) Stillwatch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States. With the help of an old flame, Congresman Sam Kingsley, Pat delves into Abigail's life, only to turn up horrifying facts...
8) Murphy's law
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Molly Murphy never dreamed she would become a killer, but after she strikes out in self-defense, she finds herself on the run from the police and trying to adjust to her new identity.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Alice Bullock is a young newlywed whose husband, Charlie, has just joined the Union Army, leaving her on his Iowa farm with only his formidable mother for company. Equally talented at sewing and gossip, and not overly fond of hard work, Alice writes lively letters to her sister filled with accounts of local quilting bees, the rigors of farm life, and the customs of small-town America. But no town is too small for intrigue and treachery, and when Alice...
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A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school...
12) Ink and bone
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Hollows novels volume 05
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In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance. For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things...
13) Girl missing
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Detective Kaitlyn Carr volume 1
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A young girl from a wealthy family is found hanging from a tree in a secluded canyon. How did she get there? Who did this to her? Detective Kaitlyn Carr is determined to find out and bring the killer to justice. But when her thirteen-year-old sister vanishes on her way back from a friend's house, Kaitlyn must split her time and confront demons from her own past in order to bring her sister home. A murderer is lurking in the shadows and the more of...
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"In post-World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, encounter an uncharitable killer at a charity luncheon sponsored by a posh school for girls . . . Good deeds build good character, and good character is what the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies is all about. Lady Phoebe - with the tireless assistance of Eva - has organized a luncheon at the school to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War, encouraging the students...
15) The watchers
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Twenty-year-old Abby Sherman is pulled into a centuries-old battle against an evil foe when a series of vivid dreams sets in motion a chain of events that will change the world.
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"A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
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"Laura is a young intern in Washington, D.C., working for handsome and likable Congressman Hal Gannon. Laura falls for the charming Gannon, but when she catches a stewardess at Gannon's apartment, she vows to destroy him. Private investigator Robert Brixton is a former cop who has also worked for the FBI. When Laura goes missing, Brixton is hired by Laura's family to gain insight into the case that the police might have missed. Brixton tracks down...
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"In this suspenseful thriller, Thomas Marks, a young, intelligent man, admits to being with both women just before they were murdered. Though investigators don't believe him, he claims to be innocent. The only problem is none of the evidence corroborates his story nor confirms the guilt of anyone else. When another suspect surfaces, Thomas thinks he's in the clear, but appearances can't always be trusted. Will an arrest stick? Find out in this mystery...
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Ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew is terrified of letting any man get too close, including her longtime boyfriend, Tommy, but when she begins ghostwriting for a popular soap star, Lee finds herself drawn to the star's good-looking manager and begins a clandestine affair that jeopardizes everything Lee holds dear.
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