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9241) The Heiress
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle's death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold and questions about the infamous heiress come to light. What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious...
9242) Calico
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert... The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge--and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...
9243) The Rosewood hunt
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad's death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close--Gram's role as chair of their family's luxury coat business has inspired Lily's love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram's footsteps one day. Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily's world is upended. Gram's quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared. But Gram has always...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school, Magda has been shipped off to live with her grandparents in Oregon. This is her last chance. She stumbles on Bo, who...
9245) Son of the Mob
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A reluctant Mafia prince . . .
Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids - his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization.
Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy for certain things...
Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids - his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization.
Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy for certain things...
Author
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Then a student...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this New York Times bestselling mystery in the Cat Who series, Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, sense that trouble is brewing in their small town...
Times are a-changin’ in Pickax, giving Jim Qwilleran some newsworthy notes for the “Qwill Pen.” A new senior center is in the works—as well as a frisky production of Cats. And a local mansion is being converted into a charitable...
Times are a-changin’ in Pickax, giving Jim Qwilleran some newsworthy notes for the “Qwill Pen.” A new senior center is in the works—as well as a frisky production of Cats. And a local mansion is being converted into a charitable...
9248) Debt of Honor
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 8
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, the new president's National Security Adviser, sees the problems of peace fully as complex as those of war. Enemies have become friends, friends enemies, and even the form of conflict has changed.
When one of the new enemies prepares to strike not only American territory but the heart of its economy, Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare an untested president to meet the challenge. But how? For...
When one of the new enemies prepares to strike not only American territory but the heart of its economy, Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare an untested president to meet the challenge. But how? For...
9249) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
9250) This Lie Will Kill You
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Will keep readers on edge from start to finish." —Kirkus Reviews
Tell the truth. Or face the consequences.
Clue meets Riverdale in this page-turning thriller that exposes the lies five teens tell about a deadly night one year ago.
One year ago, there was a party.
At the party, someone died.
Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth.
But...
Tell the truth. Or face the consequences.
Clue meets Riverdale in this page-turning thriller that exposes the lies five teens tell about a deadly night one year ago.
One year ago, there was a party.
At the party, someone died.
Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth.
But...
9251) Skulduggery Pleasant
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source--the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer..."--Back cover.
9252) Danger down the Nile
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
9253) Goodbye girl: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols. The result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover."--
9255) Immortal in death
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She is one of the most sought-after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted - even another woman's man. And now she's dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas puts her life on the line to take the case when suspicion falls on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle. Eve finds that beneath the facade of glamour, the world of high fashion thrives on an all-consuming...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth Iris and her sapphic detective agency investigate the disappearance of Iris's cheerleader ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be the creator of a notorious true-crime podcast about Iris's missing older sister."--
9257) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane, where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility - until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story: one of creature...
9259) Fly by night
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dee returns to her small hometown in New Jersey to see if she can help her father and the local police find her missing twin sister Beth, who was a leader in fighting the threat of a pipeline gutting the pinelands, but only finds more mysterious questions while disocovering signs of the supernatural in the surrounding woods.
9260) Girl in the blue coat
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days finding and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the German army invaded. Her illegal work keeps her family afloat, and Hanneke also likes to think of it as a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. On a routine delivery,...
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