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"What happens when your worst fear comes true? Her only daughter has just gone away to college, and Maggie O'Farrell knows she's turning into one of those helicopter parents she used to mock. Worrying constantly, texting more than she should, even occasionally dropping by the campus "just to say hi." But Maggie can't shake the feeling that something terrible is about to happen to Emma. And then, just as Maggiestarts to relax, her daughter disappears....
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Delia Moss isn't quite sure where she went wrong. Everything was going smoothly. Ok, she had a slightly rubbish job working for the council and she hadn't seen her best friend Emma in God knows how long, but she'd been working up to proposing to Paul for months. This. Was. It. But with one annoying little 'beep beep', Delia's life is turned upside down and rather than stick around and commit GBH by punching her cheating scumbag boyfriend (who still...
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Boxcar children volume 138
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"During auditions for the show 'Pop Star Sensation' at the local mall, one of the judges, a famous pop star, disappears, and the Aldens must find out where she went"--
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick-one of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O'Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre,...
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Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her, and where the search leads changes the family forever.
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"The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket. Kate and Hans cherish Hester, despite the pointed question of Hans's mother--'What...
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We do not know where Becfola came from. Nor do we know for certain where she went to. We do not even know her real name, for the name Becfola, "Dowerless" or "Small-dowered," was given to her as a nickname. This only is certain, that she disappeared from the world we know of, and that she went to a realm where even conjecture may not follow her.
10) Going Dark
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"An intense rollercoaster of a thriller and a searing indictment of which victims get our attention and sympathy."
–#1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu
In this ripped-from-the-headlines Gone Girl meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz weaves a white-knuckle YA thriller about a beautiful young influencer who vanishes after going...
–#1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu
In this ripped-from-the-headlines Gone Girl meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz weaves a white-knuckle YA thriller about a beautiful young influencer who vanishes after going...
11) Truth and Lies
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The search for Dayna has led the crew of the Liberator half way across the galaxy, but now Avon knows why she left them. He knows where she went. He knows what she was looking for. But can he find his missing crewmate before it is too late? The answers lie on a planet called Appallon Five – but so does danger and betrayal.
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Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
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This was it-Sarah Jo Foster's last year of school! Even though it was home school, it was still school. Being finished-graduating-was a big deal. She knew her friends Abby Jacobs and Callie Morris were just as excited. For that matter, so were Wendy Granton and Laura Sanders who lived in faraway Addison where Sarah Jo had once lived. But now she was back in Pine Moor where life had begun for her. It would always be home no matter where she went. She...
15) Left for Dead
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Hiking should be fun and exhilarating - not scary and dangerous.The San Bernardino National Forest is beautiful, especially in the early morning when the sun peeks through the treetops.Helena has returned from Maui, rested, and ready to return to work. She wasn't expecting to be called on to solve another mystery so soon.One of her best friends has a missing employee with no evidence of why she left or where she went except for the snacks she left...
16) All My Hexes
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Crystal left all her exes (and hexes) behind in Texas… or so she thought. Pastry chef and witch, Crystal, is living with her sister in Louisiana while she gets her baking business off the ground. The arrangement gives her bonding time with her niece and space to figure out where she went wrong-both in her last romantic relationship and in her relationship with her magic. When Erin and her little brother go to a pumpkin-carving playdate, the last...
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Think of an event that rocked your world so much you felt like your life was spinning out of control. Did you feel like nothing made sense? Did you feel hopeless? Carmen suddenly finds herself thrust into a world of uncertainty swirling around her. After being torpedoed with a career killer, Carmen struggles to understand how everything she's ever worked for could be swept out from under her. Recounting events throughout her entire working life, from...
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Father Allan's Island, by Amy Murray, with a foreword by Padraic Colum is the story of her visit to the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, where she went to collect folk melodies and stayed "from a Lady Day to a St. Michael's." In some ways the volume is reminiscent of The Aran Islands of J. M. Synge, but Miss Murray's journey was more of an adventure and less of an introspection. Her style is a mixture of Elizabethan and Hebridean colloquialisms...
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After her marriage unexpectedly ends, 26 year old Marisa takes her cat and moves halfway across the country for a fresh start in a nowhere town on the Maine coast. With free lodging in the form of housesitting a cozy, log cabin, Marisa makes herself overlook the town's local legend about the woman who lived there first. Some people believed Evie killed a guy, others think she cursed him, but everyone knows neither she nor her alleged victim have...
20) Vanished
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Gone Girl meets Pretty Little Liars in the first book of this fast-paced psychological thriller series full of delicious twists and turns. Friendship. Obsession. Deception. Love. Kalah knows better than to fall for Beth Taylor . . . but that doesn't stop her from falling hard and falling fast, heart first into a sea of complications. Then Beth vanishes. She skips town on her eighteenth birthday, leaving behind a flurry of rumors and a string of broken...