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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
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"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Brynn Wilder must confront a dark and dangerous walk back into her traumatic past. Eighteen years ago, twelve-year-old Brynn Wilder's life changed forever when her father and a teenage girl were severely injured in a brutal attack in the woods. Jonah Wilder died, but fifteen-year-old Tessa Cavanaugh survived to tell the world about her horrific ordeal, and Brynn's devoted father was soon identified as the infamous Genessa Point serial killer. Brynn...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden"--
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Stillhouse Lake novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom.With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When they begin receiving threatening messages they believe are from their villainous parents, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay know they must return to the Isle of the Lost to find out what is going on before the plot to destroy Auradon succeeds.
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Series
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"Freddie is the daughter of Dr. Facilier. She's got voodoo in her blood, a deck of shadow cards in her hands, and a song in her villain kid heart. When Freddie's dreams of joining the a cappella group at Auradon Prep fall apart, she uses her shadow cards to get her way . . . But dark magic always comes with a price." -- Publisher's description.
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Encounter Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens....
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TED Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his childhood, he did not become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that people conditioned to be terrorists are actually well positioned to combat terrorism,...
10) Kajillionaire
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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When a family of longtime con artists convince a stranger to join them, they find their lives rapidly changing.
11) Buried
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Series
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes lie untouched in an old Victorian cottage, the hidden legacy of the Dolly Rawlins and her widows, but the millions are not forgotten. Released from prison, Esther Freeman is determined to retrieve the money. And so too is Mike Withey, Shirley Miller's brother and Audrey's son. When a fire breaks out at the derelict cottage, with a badly charred body inside along with what looks like thousands of burnt bank...
12) Descendants 2
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there's a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, Uma unleashes havoc on...
13) Absurdistan
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English
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“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner alive.”
–Aleksandar Hemon
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante’s...
–Aleksandar Hemon
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante’s...
Author
Series
Brute Force novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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From #1 bestselling author Lora Leigh comes Collision Point, part of the thrilling Brute Force seriespacked with powerful men, steely women, and explosive passion. SHES NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. Riordan Malone is more than a bodyguard. As an Elite Ops agent, hes ripped, raged, and ready to rumblea true warrior, inside and out. But no war zone can compare to the battle in Rorys heart when he lays eyes on the only woman hes ever lovedand thought he had lost...
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Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn't exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion; she and her mother crisscross the country, from California to New York to Miami and back again. When her father finally returns home, months later, his absence is never explained--and the family has a new last name. It's only much later that Jenny discovers that theirs was a...
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Series
Karen Vail novels volume 7
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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FBI profiler Karen Vail is on the hunt for an escaped serial killer.
18) Justice
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Series
Lawless volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. But now that life is behind her. Faced with the existence of a weapon that could threaten all life on Earth, M Freeman is ready to fight the good fight for a change. That means joining the Fulbright Academy. In their ancient cops-and-robbers conflict against the Lawless School,...
19) Demonic
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Carly still has nightmares about her estranged mother, Angela, who committed a series of inexplicable murders decades earlier. Now in a comatose state after a head injury, Anglela is in a medical research facility. Carly reluctantly agreees to be part of an experimental trial to make contact with her mother through a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulator. Once in her mother's mindscape, she unwittingly unleashes terrifying demons that have...
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