Jewel
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life...
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 2
Description
Two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Author
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back thirty times with a kitchen knife in their own homes. Someone must have seen something. Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years working in Ibiza. She and her husband Alfie are eager to find a place of their...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The author of the "rich, dark, and intricately twisted" (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Pick's life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt's spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations...
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Formats
Description
"On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young womanand her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is thewriter's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, "DIG...
10) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
12) Paradise on fire
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Description
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (760 min.) : si., b&w and tinted b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 p. : ill.)
Description
To win a lady and save the family business, a young man seeks fame; a scientific detective investigates an opium smuggler; a suicidal man changes his mind and must elude the assassin he hired; a young couple tries to elope via train; a small town createsa Wild West fantasy for a rich Easterner; a button factory worker discovers he is European royalty; a D'Artagnan-wannabe heads out west for adventure; a mad doctor attempts to drive a patient to suicide;...