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"Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case. Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family's vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage,...
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Series
Cape Charade volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"I have three deadly problems: 1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer. 2. I just had a bullet removed from my brain. 3. My new daughter is growing up too fast--and she's in the line of fire. Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California means safety from the murderer who hunts Kellen Adams and her new family.... Or does it? Family time becomes terror-time, and at last, alone, Kellen faces a killer playing a cruel game. Only one...
23) Cold snap
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for attacking a female jogger. Investigators believe they have finally captured the sadistic serial killer. But one deputy is sure they have the wrong man. In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Alaska, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts...
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Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her long-time friend Sadie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Sadie's disappearance. Mariah's uncanny knack...
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"Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with all summer. Seven years later, Maya is just managing to move on; she lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is finally kicking the secret Klonopin habit that's allowed her to cope with what happened all those years ago. But her past comes back to haunt her when she discovers a recent YouTube...
26) Jar of hearts
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English
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"This is story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong--one of the most popular girls in school--disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who...
27) The empty grave
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Series
Lockwood and Co volume 5
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--
Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission. They have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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When the Hardys' wealthy neighbor is robbed, Joe and Frank are asked by their father to help solve the case.
29) Woman last seen
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two boys goes missing on Monday. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman Daan and vanishes the same week. Detective Clements knows that people disappear all the time--far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run toward and others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds. Their disappearances are unlikely to be connected....
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Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease, and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
31) A valiant deceit
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Series
Olive Bright mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It's not the daring role she'd envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined... Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance,...
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"After Caroline's dear friend is kidnapped...she has no choice but to work with Lord Valentine Thorn, the same man who broke her heart. Worse, when her actions put her father's business at risk, a marriage of convenience may be her only solution... Val, the new Viscount Wrackham, is in an untenable position: His father is demanding he find a respectable bride to secure the succession. Yet the only woman he's ever loved, Miss Caroline Hardcastle, is...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her 'accident' on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business--known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls--is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest...
34) The boogeyman
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Kath and her boyfriend arrive at a remote cabin in the redwoods, they find a mysterious young couple already there. But when her boyfriend disappears with the young woman, Kath becomes obsessed with finding an explanation.
36) Facing the enemy
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death. On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as an English teacher at a local college, only to see her past and present collide when one of her students, Carson Mercury, turns in an assignment that reads like an eyewitness account of her brother's murder, with...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (769 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In March 1986, eight months after the events of season 3, several Hawkins teenagers are killed in mysterious ways by a powerful being that lives in the Upside Down, Eleven goes to a secret facility in Nevada to help regain her powers, and Hopper and his fellow inmates in a Russian prison camp battle a Demogorgon that the Russians have captured.