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361) Smokescreen
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In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
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""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within"--San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home--reluctantly--to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
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"Faced with the harsh reality that there are twenty five thousand more women than men in London, Katie's dating prospects are at an all-time low. While she's glad it's not a man's world anymore, her own world really needs more eligible bachelors, a lot more. Resigning herself to the fact that there's no sex in the city for her, Katie decides to head for the hills--or the Scottish Highlands to be exact. A new job takes her to the charming town of...
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Minotaur Books
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2018.
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210 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm.
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"In the spring of 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple takes a famous train, the Flying Scotsman, to go to Scotland and research a new article. Once on board, she bumps into an old schoolmate, Anne Breton, who, along with all her relatives, is en route to the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. Alistair's will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, to the great dismay of many others in the extended...
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Minotaur Books
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2023.
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370 pages ; 25 cm
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"What happened to Lara? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lara decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavik. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, as the city...
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Rocabolsillo
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2018.
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382 pages ; 19 cm.
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Su vida perfecta era una perfecta mentira... Ani tiene un secreto. Hay algo en su pasado que todavía la persigue: algo privado, oculto, secreto y doloroso que amenaza con destruirlo todo. Como estudiante en la prestigiosa escuela Bradley, Ani FaNelli no pasó la mejor de las adolescencias. Ahora, con un trabajo glamuroso, un armario caro y un apuesto novio, está muy cerca de vivir la vida perfecta y frívola por la que ha estado trabajando tan duro....
367) Watch it burn
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Mira
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[2024]
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330 pages ; 21 cm
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"It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old Beverly Hoffman is discovered in the Guadalupe River, drowned in only two inches of water. After elementary school teacher Nichole Miller discovers the woman's body, she makes two phone calls: first to the police, who call Beverly's death a slip and fall, and second to her best friend, journalist Jenny Martin. Jenny is attempting to revive her flailing marriage...
368) Close to you
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Brilliance Audio
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2010
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9 CDs (10 hr., 40 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Caitlin Prescott was only a baby when her parents disappeared. Adopted by a wealthy Texas oil family, she became Kate Montgomery, and grew up with no memory of her parents or her two older sisters and brother, who have been searching for her, hoping to right a terrible wrong that was committed twenty-two years ago in a small Texas town. Now an ambitious young news reporter, Kate realizes that she is being stalked soon after landing her dream job at...
369) The voter file
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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[2020]
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432 pages cm
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"Investigative reporter Jack Sharpe is down to his last chance. Fired from his high-profile gig with a national news channel, his only lead is a phone full of messages from a grad student named Tori Justice, who swears she's observed an impossible resultin a local election. Sharpe is sure she's mistaken...but what if she isn't? Sharpe learns that the most important tool in any election is the voter file: the database that keeps track of all voters...
370) The ventriloquists
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"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's...
372) Sira=: Sira
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HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022
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727 pages ; 21 cm.
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"La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. Entre hechos históricos que marcarán...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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x, 494 pages ; 24 cm
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"In this suspenseful and heart-pounding novel from New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an ambitious young journalist unravels a dangerous mystery that threatens to devastate the British monarchy. Keeping secrets is a dangerous game. When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret so shocking, it could rock the...
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Jason Bourne series volume 17
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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555 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous or as cruelly inventive as the assassin who calls himself Lennon. Bourne thought he had Lennon cornered in Iceland, only to have the killer escape in a fiery explosion. Now Lennon's trail leads Bourne to New York and then to Washington--and the body count rises with each deadly encounter. But who is Lennon working for? Bourne believes the assassin has a shadowy new employer called the...
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Berkley
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2021.
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341 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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"Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island-a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay-is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her beloved husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 13
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New Millennium Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
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6 CDs (ca. 7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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After five years of legal formalities, Jim Qwilleran has officially inherited his freedom and a fortune, which leaves him with a serious dilemma. What should he do now? Seeking a place of peace and isolation to make up his mind, he heads to the Potato Mountains for the summer. But Qwill lands in the middle of controversy, not solitude. The mountains are haven to the independent roughneck descendants of Prohibition-era moonshiners. The valley is home...
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Jordan Manning novels volume 2
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"After dropping her child off at preschool, Marla Hancock, a stay-at-home mother, disappears. She had recently left her verbally abusive husband in rural Indiana and moved in with her sister, Shelly, who simply can't believe that her sister would ever willingly vanish without her children. But with limited support from the town's police department or media resources, Shelly fears that Marla's disappearance won't get the attention it deserves, or worse,...
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