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1) Never Caught
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President...
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jerry McGill was growing up in the housing projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980's, his future seemed bright. Though times were tough for a family led by a single mother, McGill was a charming, precocious teenager, already excelling as an athlete and a dancer. But everything changed one night when he was thirteen. Walking home from a New Year's party with a friend, McGill was shot in the back by an unknown assailant, who was...
Author
Publisher
37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"--
Author
Series
Unsub novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2—A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier.
Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares...
Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a domestic violence...
Author
Publisher
KS Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An urban tale about a cunning, street savvy chick named Tina Martin who also goes by the name Green Eyes. She is a master manipulator, who takes from her victims until she can't take anymore.
Tina Martin, aka "Green Eyes", never caught a break in life until she got hired as a housekeeper at one of the most lavish, five star hotels in Atlantic City. Recruiting her baby sister Shelby Martin, to be her partner in crime the two found a lucrative, side...
10) Knot on her life
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"While quilter Martha Rose awaits the birth of her granddaughter, a neighborhood girl appears at her door with a mystery that can't be pinned down . . .Martha's eager to finish the baby quilt she's making for her new granddaughter, but she scraps those plans when a young girl rings her doorbell begging for help. Poppy Halaby, the foster child of Martha's neighbor, is an orphan whose parents were murdered by a killer who was never caught. When Poppy's...
11) Blood trails
Author
Series
Searchers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Her father's deathbed confession reveals that Holly Slade's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter," and that her mother gave Holly up to save her life. But The Hunter was never caught -- and Holly's mother simply vanished. Haunted, driven, Holly leaves her home and Bud Tate, the handsome ranch foreman she's afraid to love, to search for her father - and hopes her mother was wrong.
12) The final child
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Erin and her brother Alex were the last children abducted by 'the Father', a serial killer who only ever took pairs of siblings. She escaped, but her brother was never seen again. Traumatised, Erin couldn't remember anything about her ordeal, and the Father was never caught. Eighteen years later, Erin has done her best to put the past behind her. But then she meets Harriet. Harriet's young cousins were the Father's first victims and, haunted by their...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An escape to an idyllic Irish seaside village is about to turn deadly in this riveting new novel by master of romantic suspense Carla Neggers.
For marine biologist Julianne Maroney, two weeks in tiny Declan's Cross on the south Irish coast is a chance to heal her broken heart. She doesn't expect to attract the attention of FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, who are in Ireland for their own personal retreat.
Ten
...Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thomas Cook is one of today's most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of forbidden love and devastating secrets. Now he has written an unforgettable novel that weaves one man's tortured life with a deadly mystery that spans five decades....
Riverwood is an artists' community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft. But for all its beauty and isolation, it was once touched...
Riverwood is an artists' community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft. But for all its beauty and isolation, it was once touched...
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school's Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They're beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they're always ready...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. She was working with the young auteur Serge Grumet and was on her way to becoming the next indie darling. But then the movie tanked and Jenny never caught a second break. Now, two decades later, after floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, she's barely keeping afloat running...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover's lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He was never caught.
"After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there is only one name their equal
...Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents five more of L'Amour's fine short stories about the West, restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.
"Riding for the Brand"
Jed Asbury was stripped naked by Indians and forced to run the gauntlet. He ran it better than they had
20) The never game
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation...
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