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1561) The innocent: Playaway
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
America has enemies, ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target.
1563) Forsaken country
Author
Language
English
Description
"Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt--he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle's daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle's certain Sandy's ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate....
1564) The Sisterhood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lil's heart was broken when her sister Mella disappeared. There's been no trace or sighting of her since she vanished, so when Lil sees a girl lying in the road near her house she thinks for a heart-stopping moment that it's Mella. The girl is injured and disorientated and Lil has no choice but to take her home, even though she knows something's not right. The girl claims she's from a peaceful community called The Sisterhood of...
1565) The curse
Author
Series
Seacliff High mystery volume Book 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In book two of the series, two Seacliff High students turn up missing just days before Halloween. The police believe that they have simply run away, but when strange and unexplained things begin to happen at the annual Haunted Hayride, Alyson begins to suspect there may be more going on than the adults in town would like to believe. After the props and decorations for the annual event turn up missing, Alyson and the gang decide to look into the case...
Author
Series
Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood.
1567) The one who came back
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Eddie Chavez disappears after they have spent the day together in the mountains of New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Alex cannot get anyone to believe his story and is even suspected of murdering the missing boy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Author
Series
Katie and Annalise volume 3
Publisher
Skipjack Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Katies already on edge when a dead guy shows up at Estate Annalise and shady locals claim there are slave remains in the foundation, but when Nick doesnt come home to her and the kids one day after work, shes ready to lose it. A frantic Katie launches a Caribbean-wide manhunt, calling on Kurt, her stoic, steady father-in-law, and Collin, her badass big brother, to help her search air, land, and sea for her husband, who may be in very big trouble indeed....
1570) She is not invisible
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers, a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: she is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her younger brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City. Surviving will take...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Cypress grew up as a nomad. Everything she knows of life, she learned inside the confines of an Airstream camper while traveling the country from one street fair to another. As an adult, Cypress left her gypsy life behind to plant roots and open a boutique. But she has never been able to stop looking over her shoulder as her past continues to haunt her.
Chris is a missing-person detective that has dedicated his career to saving women from fates worse...
1574) Bright and deadly things
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A remote back-to-basics mountaintop retreat in the French Alps turns deadly as an Oxford fellow finds herself in the crosshairs of her late husband's dangerous secrets. The Chalet des Anglais should be the ideal locale for recently-widowed Oxford don Emily to begin cutting through the fog of her grief. With no electricity, running water, or access by car, the rustic chalet nestled at the foot of the verdant, snow-topped Alps should afford Emily both...
1575) Off to a bad tart
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jillian Green gets roped in to instructing a teen baking class through the local parks department. Everyone participating in the class is full of enthusiasm except the program director, Louisa Byrne, a recent transplant to Moss Hollow who's failing to conceal her shaky nerves. When Louisa skips class unexpectedly, Jillian doesn't quite believe the woman's coworker when he claims she went to visit her sister. Did Louisa really ditch town for a family...
Author
Publisher
Post Mortem Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A hard-boiled detective story of murder and mayhem, a war story of pathos and survival, an action story of intrigue and violence, a love story of abandon and betrayal, a stick in the eye of the entertainment industry, wry social commentary on how America treats its veterans of war, but mostly a rousing tale of brotherhood in war and beyond. And of course, a foul-mouthed monkey named Jerry.
1577) A hard ticket home
Author
Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he's willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn't), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: Nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from...
Author
Series
Witches of New Orleans volume 1
Publisher
47North
Language
English
Description
From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series comes the story of a young witch's quest to uncover her family's terrifying history...Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who've relied on it for countless centuries increasingly hopeless. While some see an inevitable end of their era, others are courting madness-willing to sacrifice former allies, friends, and family to retain the power they covet....
1579) All our hidden gifts
Author
Series
Gifts (O'Donoghue) volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find.