Maggi-Meg Reed
1) Home front
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English
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
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Lexile measure
720L
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English
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Henry De Tamble, a rather dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in, say, 1998 to find himself suddenly, usually without his clothes, which mysteriously disappear in transit, at an entirely different place 10 years earlier-or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby...
4) Come home
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English
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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...
5) Hide
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It was the case that nearly killed him and changed Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodges life forever. Now, a gruesome discovery a twenty-five-year-old mass grave on the grounds of a former mental institution is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. The trail to catch this killer leads Dodge and his ex-partner back to a dangerous woman from Bobby's past a beautiful survivor-turned-avenger with an eerie link to a mystery girl named Annabelle....
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English
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Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
8) Home
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The must-hear anthology for mystery fans who can't get enough of the dark side of Sweden! This short story collection features Sweden's most distinguished and best-loved crime writers, including Henning Mankell, Asa Larsson, Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo and Sara Stridsberg, with a special highlight being a Stieg Larsson story never before published in English. Larsson's companion Eva also contributes a story.