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34021) Watchdog
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What if your best friend – brilliant, calculating, intense – was victimized by unspeakable police brutality? What if his scheme of revenge was so untraceable, so diabolical, that he just might get away with it? What if you had to keep his secret? And what if his goal wasn't revenge... but something more revolutionary?
34022) Swamp Monster
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Artist Lia Anderson gets a puppy. Detective Peter Dourson gets a bag of bones. Who's in more trouble?Human remains on the banks of Cincinnati's Mill Creek spark a media circus. It's a case Detective Peter Dourson shouldn't have, with attention he doesn't want-even before his former fiancée arrives to fan the flames.And it's the Dog Park Gang's fault it landed in his lap.Starving artist Lia Anderson has her own problems. Her new puppy is on a mission...
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Welcome to the quaint town of Cryptic Cove. Meet Lexi, Jake, Grams and the rest of the quirky people who live in this charming little town.This boxed set contains Books 1, 2 and 3 of the series.Book 1: Murder & MayhemBook 2: Murder & MenaceBook 3: Murder & Mockery
34024) Impulse Control
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Sookie King lives for 5pm, leaving the office and enjoying her twenty-something life. Her boss is the worst, her job is boring, but at least that's not her entire life. In fact, she's not really Sookie King. There's a knife in her handbag. And text messages on her phone from another boss entirely.Five years ago, the Red Creek Killer went to prison. But blood is so much stronger than water-and you can't escape the tide. Following the events of the...
34025) El misterio del cumpleaños
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Se acerca el cumpleaños de Katie y se entera de que recibirá un regalo especial. Está demasiado emocionada como para ser paciente y esperar la llegada del regalo, así que decide investigar con antelación. Las pistas podrían llevarla hasta su regalo, pero ¿será mejor dejar este misterio sin resolver?
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Andy has been looking forward to mountain biking all day. Finally school is over, and he can hit the trail with his friend Josh. But Josh gets sidetracked by a nest of snakes and comes up with the idea to catch one and take it to school the next day to pull a prank on their classmate Megan. Josh thinks it's a great idea. Andy isn't so sure. Sure enough, the snake gets loose in the school hallway. What will Andy do? The ending is Up2U.
34027) Flour Day will Come
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An escaped lunatic, a panicked town, and a murder case that will challenge their sanity…
Summer has arrived in the lovely town of Clovedale Falls, and sisters Rita and Rhonda are enjoying the quiet life at their bakery. But when they stumble upon a rumour that an escaped patient from a mental asylum is closing in their town, they struggle not to get caught up in the whirlwind of panic and suspicion.
But the mental patient isn't the only person...
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Meurtres à la gare.
Niort, printemps 1936. En cette veille de Pâques, le train de nuit de Paris arrive avec deux passagers de moins qu'il n'en avait embarqués. Quelques heures plus tard, deux corps sont retrouvés sur la voie à Thouars. Le commissaire spécial Bonsergent est chargé de l'enquête, qui prend vite une tournure inattendue, au moment o le ministère de l'Intérieur est en pleine chasse aux espions qui veulent tout connaître du potentiel...
34029) A pesar de mi tía
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Ángela se empeña en resolver el misterio de un asesinato y de sus propios sentimientos. A través de la descripción aguda de personajes y situaciones cotidianas, la historia se tiñe de un profundo realismo lírico.
34030) The Happy Family Facade
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Irene and Joe face their most curious case yet when a woman asks them to investigate the wealthy family she began working as a housekeeper for a few months prior. Locked doors and secret rooms permeate the household and the further Irene and Joe probe into the family's life, the deeper the secrets become. They play a dangerous game of undercover to see just what mysteries lay beneath the floorboards of this dark household, but what they discover is...
34031) Under the Stairs
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Themes: Trust, Monsters, Mystery, Friendship, Horror, Fiction, Tween, Emergent Reader, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Diego's dad buys an old house to flip, previous owners all murdered, Diego's friends find something gross in the basement. White Lightning...
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The ship was storm-tossed, no one at the helm, its sails tattered and ragged.Unless the couple got to the ship's wheel soon, they and the ship would be destroyed.It seemed years before the couple could struggle against the rocking waves and gusting wind to reach the quarterdeck - to at last get control over that ship's wheel.The two of them were able to finally wrestle the ship's rudder to start pointing the ship's travel with the waves instead of...
34033) The Brass Starling
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When Thomas Edison's corporate thugs steal her father's invention, Willow Locke must find a way to defend her family. Willow finds an unexpected ally in Nikola Tesla, who works in secret in a basement lab away from his main facility at Wardenclyffe, which he fears has been infiltrated by spies. Tesla is creating advanced technology that is a century ahead of its time, but everything he makes must be kept hidden. Willow will use his inventions to unravel...
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L'Australie déploie ses paysages somptueux de roc et de sable dans cette nouvelle enquête de Napoléon Bonaparte, I'inspecteur sangmêlé créé par Arthur Upfield, un policier bien étrange en vérité, qui nia pas son pareil pour déchiffrer les pages du "Livre de la brousse" et qui n'hésitera pas à se faire coffrer pour prendre un meurtrier dans ses filets.
34035) Saddled With Death
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A murder. A family in mourning. An old promise.It's the 1870s, and Emma Haythorne's comfortable life on her family's sheep station on the Murray River is about to be turned upside down. She isn't the only one dismayed by the quarrelsome visitors who arrive at her neighbour's property, where she is helping care for a terminally ill woman. But nor is she one to step away from a problem. So when one of those visitors turns up dead in the stable, and...
34036) Ghost Girl
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Cara Moreau is dying from a supernatural curse. Her only chance of survival lies with the warrior, an enigmatic man who comes from a realm in between. Quin St. Clair lived hundreds of years ago, but now exists solely to protect the world he once called home. That's all he will tell Cara, the woman he must keep alive by remaining close to her. Very close. But Cara is determined to discover more answers as she grows to like her warrior. While they search...
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Une nouvelle enquête du commissaire Baron!
Un soir d'hiver, le journaliste Guillemet rencontre fortuitement Charlotte Meyer, ancienne connaissance qui affirme avoir aperçu une nuit, deux hommes transportant un corps sur une brouette dans la campagne morbihannaise gelée. Délire dû à son état alcoolisé?
Guillemet soumet ces confidences troublantes à la perspicacité de son ami, le commissaire Nazer Baron. L'enquête va le mener de la région...
34038) La Conexion Viena
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El ex experto en inteligencia Darren Priest intenta distanciarse de su antigua vida, y toma una nueva vocación como escritor de vino y comida.
Rápidamente descubre que hay cosas para las que no se puede dejar de ser voluntario. Llamado a Viena por el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Priest emprende una misión encubierta donde el amigo se convierte rápidamente en enemigo.
Con numerosos enemigos amenazando su misión, ¿puede Priest averiguar...
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Le capitaine Pierre Bourguignon est en poste depuis quelques mois à Oléron o les forêts, les dunes, l'océan et les marais l'aident à vivre avec ses douloureux souvenirs. Et son travail l'accapare jour et nuit sur cette île o souffle un vent de folie : braquage, meurtre, disparitions.
À Oléron la lumineuse, le capitaine et son adjoint naviguent pourtant en eaux troubles, au milieu de voyous et de prostituées. Ils doivent se plonger dans le...
34040) All Aboard for Murder
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Who knew a seven-foot nutcracker could be a murder weapon?Finding the body of the toy store owner Betty King is the latest in a list of reasons Michael Bellemare feels far from jolly this holiday season. Having secured jobs for two local teens at the store, obligation leads Michael to help uncover the killer and clear both their names.Unfortunately, the mounting evidence seems to point to one of the teens.Partnering with detective Janis Jets, Michael...
