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English
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Returning home to Ocean Vista on the Jersey Shore with her teenage daughter and her nine-year-old son Daniel, who has bipolar disorder, Olivia must finally embrace the birthright inherited from her mother, Myla, a beautiful and erratic psychic, when Daniel disappears.
62) No one saw
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A.I. McKittridge and his partner, Rena Morgan, must untangle a growing web of lies to find a five-year-old girl before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two years after her adult daughter's apparent death in a canoeing accident, Marcy Taggart thinks she sees her while on holiday in Ireland, and frantically tries to find her again, all the while hoping to finally put her own mind at ease.
64) Good as gone
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk, now a private contractor, crosses Europe in search of a missing 6-year-old girl.
65) Dr. Knox
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors{u2014}a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles{u2019}s Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls{u2014}cash only, no questions asked{u2014}on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care....
Author
Series
No place for monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It all began with a midwife's secret, long buried but if uncovered could save two families from the bitter tragedy that binds them. And prove the key that will free them all...1969 On New Year's Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent...
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Series
Evan Ryder novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Evan Ryder is back in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister's children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis's supporters,...
70) The missing
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old boy's disappearance exposes the guilty feelings of a family whose members have a history of lying to each other.
When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, there isn't a single member of Billy's family that doesn't feel guilty. The Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn't until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth...
73) Torn apart
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Series
Storm front volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When her young son Bobby goes missing during a tornado, Katie Earle must reunite with her ex-husband to search the wreckage in hopes of exposing a kidnapper who is using the storm's aftermath to cover his tracks.
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Language
English
Description
"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran -- teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family....
75) Ink and bone
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Language
English
Description
In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance.
77) Coyote
Author
Publisher
Les Figues Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy{u2014}after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident{u2014}is the story of COYOTE. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar...
78) Blue Monday
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes...
79) The last child
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
80) Fire with fire
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Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been...
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