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41) The empty grave
Author
Series
Lockwood and Co volume 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Hardys' wealthy neighbor is robbed, Joe and Frank are asked by their father to help solve the case.
Author
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.
44) Woman last seen
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
46) A valiant deceit
Author
Series
Olive Bright mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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,...
47) The next to die
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A stand-up comedian wonders who she can trust when she anonymously receives the same token clue, a small white book, that has been found at each scene of a serial murder case.
What if having a best friend could put you in the crosshairs of a killer? A psychopath the police have dubbed "Billy Dead Mates" is targeting pairs of best friends, and killing them one by one. Before they die, each victim is given a small white book. For months, detectives...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Alex Taylor opens her eyes, she is hooked up to an IV, is bound to an operating table, and her legs are raised in stirrups. A man in the room claiming to be a doctor calmly and methodically tells her how he's about to attack her. Before Alex can even scream for help, she succumbs to another dose of anesthesia, rendering her unable to defend herself. When she wakes up, she immediately reports the attack and rape. The police are skeptical of...
50) Bloody Sunday
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
52) The boogeyman
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
53) Facing the enemy
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Glass and Steele volume 4
Publisher
C.J. Archer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble. To fix Matt's magic watch, they must find an old diary that once belonged to a doctor magician murdered decades ago. The hunt drags them into a sordid mystery involving two of London's craft guilds. With old and new enemies determined to stop them, and long-held secrets...
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.