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Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II. The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden Doves, the two were arrested for working with the Resistance and were bound forever when they lost everything-including Arlette's...
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Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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On a December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk, and was never seen again. For newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett, the case launched a superstar career. Bennett's obsession with the case turned up enough evidence to hang his suspect even though her body was never found. Filmmaker Catherine Heathcote turns her camera to Bennett and struggles to understand why questions from forty years ago have different...
3) Look again
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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something makes her look again, and her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was legal. But she's a journalist, and she won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth....
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Series
Buddy files volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.
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BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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115, 15 pages ; 18 cm
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"Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down--but nothing is what it seems...."--Amazon.com.
7) The wild one
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Series
Peter Ash novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
[xii, 381] pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the bestselling author of The Drifter"--
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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373 p. ; 25 cm.
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After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
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Where are the children? volume 2
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A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa's new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris-silent,...
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"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents-telekinesis and telepathy-who got to this place the same way...
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Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. The two couples have known each other since childhood. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are also the best of friends. When they and two other local...
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BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This effective self-defense guide empowers children with the skills they need to keep from becoming the next victim of predators. Youngsters will learn to spot the tricks predators use, the most effective ways to fight back, and much more!
15) The woods
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Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealing with raising his six-year-old daughter...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 24 cm
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When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, both still recovering from personal catastrophes, team up to solve the series of killings and abductions that ensues. As they follow the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, one thing becomes clear: what's really going on is much darker than anyone imagined. -- Provided by publisher.
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Jonathan Stride novels volume 5
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In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted, or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game.
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Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
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Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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"One morning the residents of Dull-on-Sea wake up to find their town is overrun with rats! Big rats, small rats, fierce rats, hungry rats . . . It's an infestation! Just when everyone is at their wits' end, a nautical stranger who plays the pipe turns upand offers to get rid of the rodent problem for a fee. But once the rats are gone, the greedy mayor of Dull-on-Sea refuses to pay, so the Pirate Piper plays an enchanted tune and leads the children...
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