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Pub. Date
2016.
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Three-year-old Sophia Lassiter disappears at the playground only to return after 40 frantic minutes-- but her mother Jill's relief is short lived. Jill is convinced the tiny dots on her daughter's arm are puncture marks. When doctors find no trace of drugs in her system, Jill accepts she won't ever know what happened during her daughter's absence and is simply grateful to have her home safely. Except Sophia isn't safe. Three months later, she disappears...
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[2014]
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Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it became a runaway best seller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a...
14885) Surface tension
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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After witnessing an act of domestic terrorism, Jake experiences memory loss and is targeted by the terrorist leader's teenage daughter, bullied by an FBI agent, doubted by his mother, but aided by his girlfriend, Laurissa, through it all.
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p2009
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While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Though authorities think Katie might have been kidnapped or run away, those theories shatter when Katie's blog is uncovered. They reveal a girl troubled by a mysterious relationship with an older man, possible a U.S. Senator. As three women known as the Triple Threat race against time to find Katie alive, their increasing emotional involvement...
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Strangelands volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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Will the Lands survive yet another face-off with the man who's been hunting them since the moment they ignited? Stranded on a boat on the Mediterranean sea, Adam and Elakshi were hoping to experience some kind of downtime. But Agent Hardman from MI6 has found them again, and this time, he's in a position to wipe them out for good. He soon learns he's not the only one on Adam and Elakshi's tail...there's another agent in the picture, and his involvement...
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2011
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On November 22, 1963, three shots changed the world. What if it never happened? Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely impossible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
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Pub. Date
2012
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In a true-to-life story about preserving what's important, Ranger Jack Chastain returns to the canyons of New Mexico after fighting wildfires, and steps into a political firestorm. When a mysterious set of provocations pit neighbor against neighbor, a battle between 'self interest' and 'do the right thing' ensues, trapping Chastain between people who must face hard truths about who they can really trust. A beautiful woman makes Chastain take a stand....
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store-- marriage, a love affair, a child-- all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war.
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Anonymous volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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Tiffany Morrow had thought she only imagined the demon horse with glowing red eyes at the airport but there was no mistaking the mountain view she had seen out of the window this morning. She was really and truly in Denver. Home. The nightmare of the jungle was over. She really didn't know how much time had passed since she'd been carried out of that vile cabin in the Amazon. She did remember that - waking for a moment or two in the arms of someone...
14893) Hard fire
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Series
A Jon Reznick Thriller volume Book 10
Pub. Date
2022.
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Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when a group of masked men murders his closest friend, he swears to exact vengeance. The now-deceased Bill Eastland had been Reznick's last living tie to his father, leaving him devastated ... and furious. Whether or not the FBI approves, he swears to hunt down whoever issued the hit on his friend. With the help...
14894) No legal grounds
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Pub. Date
c2007
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At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have his life in order. The dark years of too much drinking and all-consuming ambition have given way to Christian faith. His marriage is strong again. Everything seems finally on the right track. Then a voice from the past comes back to say hello. Suddenly Sam faces a danger more real then he ever imagined - danger from someone who will not rest until Sam's life comes crashing down around him....
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2021.
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"A "sublimely creepy" psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover (Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author). Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen...
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[2013]
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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Pub. Date
p2005
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Irene Stenson returns to the Northern California town of Dunsley when her friend Pamela dies suddenly. Irene is assisted by lodge owner, Luke Danner, a hazel-eyed ex-Marine. Will they risk more than local gossip to find out what really happened?
Tutor Concordia Glade places the safety of her four young orphan charges in the hands of Ambrose Wells, who endeavors to protect them from a notorious crime lord.
Ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything...
14898) Black Cat
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Series
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2006-2009.
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Durham Glaster vows to claim the title of the "ultimate gunman" from the Black Cat and beats where to find Train out of Train's friends. When the two finally meet, how far will Train go for revenge?
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Series
Southern Reach Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.