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2) Fearless
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Hoping to destroy a drug cartel operating south of the border, DEA agent Rodrigo Ramirez disguises himself as an itinerant laborer to take a job on Gloryanne Barnes' farm, but his growing attraction to his fiercely independent employer could endanger hismission.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"For as long as it has stood overlooking New England's jagged coastline, Lexington House has been the witness to madness-- and murder. But in recent years the inexplicable malice that once tormented so many has lain as silent as its victims. Until now. A member of the nation's foremost paranormal forensic team, Jenna Duffy has made a career out of investigating the inexplicable. Yet nothing could prepare her for the string of slayings once again plaguing...
4) Phantom evil
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Heading a group of paranormal investigators for the government, Jackson Crow, part English, part Cheyenne, uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the mysterious death of a senator's wife with the help of Angela Hawkins, a police officer with paranormal intuition.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officers dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything--her family, her reputation, and her life--to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
At the heart of The Husbands Secret is a letter thats not meant to be readMy darling Cecilia, if youre reading this, then Ive died. . . .Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret-something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.
8) Four friends
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Gerri can't decide what's more devastating: learning her rock solid marriage has big cracks, or the anger she feels as she tries to repair them. Always the anchor for friends and her three angst ridden teenagers, it's time to look carefully at herself. The journey is more than revealing, its transforming. Andy doesn't have a great track record with men, and she's come to believe that a lasting love is out of reach. When she finds herself attracted...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon-the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbor from hell.' But must Ove...
10) After you
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote?s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia?s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Catrin Quinn's job at Falkland Conservation is to protect the sea life in the Falklands' fragile ecology. Why would her goal, her passion, lie in nursing a plan to kill her former best friend, Rachel Grimwood?
"In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, she's had great success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she's not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office. Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird. Emmy is disappointed, but gamely bucks up and buckles down....
17) Iron gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking ... and what she's hiding."--
19) The never game
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...