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81) Light it up
Author
Series
How it went down volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara is terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible-and loving Adam could get her killed! Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They...
83) Obsession Falls
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Taylor Summers witnesses a death threat to a young boy, she does the only thing she can do--she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a brutal winter, and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, and her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face-to-face with the knowledge that to get her life back,...
84) Nightcrawling
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
85) Dead of winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lily Dale, New York, has witnessed its share of eerie occurrences. But things take an even stranger turn when a murderer dumps a corpse into the lake across Valley View--just as widowed mom Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she's seen. Bella's also unaware that the killer has spotted her silhouette and is headed straight for her door, stopping only when he's interrupted by the specter of a black cat. A superstitious...
86) Fatal mistake
Author
Series
White knights volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tara Parrish is the only person ever to survive an attack by the Lone Wolf bomber. Scared and emotionally scarred by her near death, she goes into hiding with only one plan--to stay alive for another day. She knows he's coming after her, and if he finds her, he will finish what he started. Agent Cal Riggins has had only one goal for the past six months--to save lives by ending the Lone Wolf's bombing spree. To succeed, he needs the help of Tara Parrish,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She had the perfect life. She had the perfect cover. She was the perfect witness. Until they found her. From the blockbuster bestselling author of the Eve Duncan novels comes a new, stand alone thriller about a woman with a photographic memory who has lived her life in the Witness Protection Program. What she once saw put her entire family in jeopardy and now, years later, her cover is blown. She's on the run, and the lives of those she holds dear...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is the dramatic story of two young girls, Megan and Jen, who meet in first grade and quickly become inseparable friends. Inseparable, that is, until one of them is snatched away by kidnappers as the other young girl watches helplessly. The remaining child grows up with the haunting memory of her friend's abduction...and absence from her life. Then, sixteen years later, the stunning truth of the disappearance is revealed. And once again,...
90) Following
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Alden likes to follow people. He's not trying to be a creep, he just wants to be an investigator someday, and it's good practice. But spying on people comes with risks, like when Alden sees popular Greg Matthes seemingly murder his girlfriend, Amy, one night in the bad part of town. But the facts aren't adding up, especially because Amy may be alive. Now Alden has to figure what he could have seen... and what secrets Greg is hiding.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the run after discovering her brother-in-law was behind her husband's murder, Faith Cooper can think of only one safe place--her Amish grandmother's home. But when danger follows Faith to the quiet Amish community, her childhood friend Eli Shetler is her only protection. And their survival depends on outlasting a relentless killer...one who has nothing left to lose." -- Page [4] cover.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"His name is Chance Gambel. His occupation: Witness Seeker. It's a perilous profession where he is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify for or against the accused in trials held throughout the frontier territories of the Southwest, circa 1880. He embarks on his most perilous assignment when he teams with a mysterious Mexican named Francisco Velasquez to search for the vicious outlaw gang leader, Silvano Ramos, who brutally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A remote Colorado mountain town and a fake identity have been Ashley Willis's safe haven since fleeing after she witnessed a murder--but now the killer has found her trail. Desperate and terrified, she's prepared to run again...but Deputy Sheriff Chase Fredrick won't let her. With the lawman by her side, can she face danger head-on...and live long enough to bring a murderer to justice?" -- Page [4] cover.
95) Copycat killer
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a double homicide is strikingly familiar to a twenty-year-old cold case, Detective Nate Slater is rattled by the parallels. With a child as the only witness, he and his K-9 partner must protect little Lucy and her aunt, Willow Emery. Nate's rough past means he always keeps an emotional distance...but in this case getting closer is the only way they'll all survive." --Page [4] cover.
96) House witness
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thriller volume 12
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Minority Leader of the House and DeMarco's long-time employer John Mahoney has kept more than one secret from his wife over the years, but none so explosive as this: He has a son, and that son has just been shot dead in a Manhattan bar. Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to New York to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, but with five bystanders willing to testify against the killer--rich-boy Toby Rosenthal--the case seems like a slam-dunk. That...
Author
Series
Alaska wild volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Language
English
Formats
Description
Something is wrong with Cooper. He's plagued by a fear he doesn't understand and can't control. Cooper just wants to escape, and a summer vacation aboard the restored cabin cruiser, The Getaway, with best friends Gordy, Hiro, and Lunk seems like the perfect way to do it. Two weeks of fun with no mysteries or life-and-death danger. That'' the plan. But their plans are shattered the very first night when they witness a murder. Or did they? Despite their...
99) On the run
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a desperate criminal pulls a gun on her in the ER, nurse Janie Kirkpatrick is in deep trouble--until undercover cop Brad Benton saves her life. Now Janie's a witness with a lethal enemy and on the run with a stranger. She has no choice but to trust Brad. But can he take down the criminals before a murderer parts them forever?" -- Page [4] cover.
100) Fraser
Author
Series
Minnesota marshalls volume 1
Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fraser Marshall is pretty sure his career as a Spec Ops fighter is over. Yes, he's gone into private security, working for Jones, Inc, but his last gig ended with him wounded and taken captive. And those wounds just won't heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family's winery pressing grapes. But what choices does he have? The answer comes via a panicked phone call from his kid brother, Creed. Help, Fraser. I'm in over my head......