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1) Low pressure
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bellamy Lyston Price was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene as well as her memory of one vital fact that still eludes her...Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a novel based on Susan's murder. It's her first book, and it's an instant sensation. But because the novel is based on the most traumatic event of her life,...
2) Black out
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Annie Powers, who had dissociated from the tragedy of her old life as Ophelia March, lives under the protective love of her husband Gray but starts to experience strange memories after her psychologist is murdered and a familiar figure appears on the beach.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
She wanted to save lives. The killer wanted to end hers.
The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody's target.
Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance. And the gifted scientist is awakening to a nightmare world where a...
The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody's target.
Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance. And the gifted scientist is awakening to a nightmare world where a...
4) Daddy's girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Natalie Greco loves being a teacher, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. She loves her family, too, but her boyfriend fits in better with the football-crazy Grecos than she does. Then a colleague, handsome Angus Holt, talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, and her world turns upside down.
A violent prison riot breaks out, and Nat rushes to save the life of a mortally wounded guard whose last words...
8) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When her husband is convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Kate plots her revenge on the people responsible.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
As Carolyn MacKenzie unravels the mystery behind her brother's disappearance...
10) The divide
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his...
13) Hokus pokus
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After the members of the Sisterhood are exiled to a remote mountaintop, they get a panicked call from Supreme Court Chief Justice Pearl Barnes requesting their help, so they must figure out how to sneak back into the United States.
14) Under the radar
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 13
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Members of the Sisterhood are contacted by Judge Pearl Barnes, who has assisted fourteen pregnant teenagers escape from a secret polygamist sect and needs the sisters' help to keep them hidden in a secure place.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac.
16) The husband
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
One morning, Southern California gardener Mitchell Rafferty gets a call on his cellphone from a stranger saying that Mitch's beloved wife, Holly, has been kidnapped and that he has less than three days to come up with $2 million in cash. Of course, he's warned not to involve the police. While Mitch is still on the phone, the kidnapper proves his seriousness by directing Mitch's attention to a man walking a dog across the street. A moment later the...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
18) Fatal error
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy-not to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her family's restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali's old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely...
20) Come home
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her---though it is stressful---and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking...