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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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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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Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke--until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After witnessing something shocking, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
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Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
National bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with another breakneck, trigger-happy historical western featuring the redoubtable saloon ranger Ben Savage. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. ALL SHOTS ON THE HOUSE. Running a small town saloon is no easy task, even for a former Texas Ranger like Ben Savage. A lot of men get mean after a few shots of hooch. Some get violent. Others get revenge—bloody, bloody revenge . . . SLAUGHTERDAY...
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Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''* An ABA "December 2023 Indie Next List" pick. From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd...
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Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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When her elderly mother falls under the spell of a handyman who's a little too kind, a little too involved, Connie, when he moves in, finds her desperate attempts to unmask him leaving her wondering if she's lost her grip on reality-and if that's been hisplan all along.
"A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he's taking over. Paul's just here to help, or so he claims—sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly...
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