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''John Marrs’s creative, high-concept thrillers never fail to keep me furiously turning the pages."—Sarah Pearse "John Marrs can do no wrong." —Jack Jordan "John Marrs is a master of suspense." —Jeneva Rose How far would you run to escape your past? Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth. Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood. But for eight strangers at a beach-front hostel, there is far more on their...
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Argeneau series volume 24
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When she rescues a naked man from a plane's cargo hold, Abigail Forsythe, miles away from civilization and hunted by his kidnappers, finds a passion like no other in the arms of this immortal creature.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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There she sits, the girl on the train. What she sees gazing out the window, will change everything. Every day the same. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She looks forward to it. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason...
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"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
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In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently...
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Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
12) Stranger safety
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Adventures in the roo world volume 1
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Roo Publications
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Random House
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[2021]
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English
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"In The Power of Strangers, journalist Joe Keohane takes us through an inquiry into our shared history, one that offers surprising and compelling insights into our own social and political moment. But if strangers seem to some to be the problem, history, data, and science show us that they are actually our solution. In fact, throughout human history, our address to the stranger, the foreigner, the marginalized, and the other has determined the fate...
15) Clue: the movie
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Paramount
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[2017]
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English
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When six strangers are invited to a party, they become involved in solving the mystery behind several murders.
16) The visitor
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Gecko Press
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2018.
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English
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"Elise is scared of everything -spiders, people, even trees. So she never goe out, night or day. One day a strange think flies in through the window and lands at her feet. And then there comes a knock at the door. Elise has visitor."--Back cover.
17) The shifter
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Berkley Sensation
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cp2012
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English
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"Years have passed since there was any sighting of Family Mongrel on the the Shifting Plains. Yet traces remain, and they lead south into the Correda Mountains. As a favor to his brother and sister-in-law, Kenyen Sin Siin has taken it upon himself to track down these hints from the past and make sure the curs have not survived. The trail grows colder, more tangled, until he's trapped in a valley where no everyone is as they seem. He will either adapt...
18) Sweet Virginia
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Shout! Factory
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[2018]
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English
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A former rodeo star who owns a small motel befriends a mysterious stranger who is responsible for a wave of violence that has suddenly gripped his town.
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"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...
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