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"Violet and Finn were "meant to be," said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't help thinking that she can't believe her luck. Life is good. So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach -- just packs up the hotel room and disappears....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on Nate McClusky's head and target his family. They've already murdered his ex-wife, so Nate takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school, knowing she'll be the next target. With barely any time to mourn her mother, Polly is thrust into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
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A runaway mother's dilemma. Susanna Miller of Colorado loses custody of her baby daughter because of a stint in a mental home. She absconds with her to Maryland and resumes life under an assumed name. The dilemma comes when she learns of a serial killer's next move. If she goes to the police she risks losing her daughter. By the author of Reflection.
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2018.
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"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
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A woman fights to free herself from a heartless husband in a novel that “delivers romance, a variety of relationships, and suspense in one appealing package” (Library Journal).
Noelle realizes it is time to move on when, rubbing lotion on her leg, she cuts herself with her wedding ring. The cut is slight, but it makes her realize that her marriage to Robert Van Doren is causing her nothing but pain. Although successful,...
Noelle realizes it is time to move on when, rubbing lotion on her leg, she cuts herself with her wedding ring. The cut is slight, but it makes her realize that her marriage to Robert Van Doren is causing her nothing but pain. Although successful,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a "richly textured and engaging" (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman's past—a past she didn't even know she had—catches up to her just in time to threaten her future.
How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?
Delia Hopkins...
How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?
Delia Hopkins...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2019.
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"When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and effervescent. It has been a while since her dad has spent time with her, just the two of them, and so when he scoops her up and promises to take her on the adventure of a lifetime, Dolly is thrilled. The first days on the road are incredibly exciting. Every pit stop promises a new delight for Dolly and her favorite plastic horse, Clemesta, who...
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Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn't keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes...
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When Cory Brandel's affair with Sheikh Damon El Karim ended, she kept their son, Michael, a secret from him. But when the Skeikh learns the truth, he kidnaps Michael and takes him away to Kasmara. Cory must travel to the desert and confront her scorned ex-lover to rescue Michael.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz takes readers into the darkest recesses of the human mind—and into the tempest of a father's obsession.
A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the...
A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the...
12) The wild one
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"Losing ground in his fight against post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane--until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her eight-year-old grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter's husband, is the sole suspect, and he has taken his young son and fled to Iceland for the protection of Erik's lawless family. Finding the boy becomes more complicated when Peter is...
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Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, the family should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood. When her children, Ally and Reed, disappear from the hotel they stop at, blind panic slides into ice-cold terror. Liz realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night-- someone she trusted completely has betrayed her. Now she must follow the...
15) In a dark house
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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator — a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old
Harriet's
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."