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A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth. Everything changed the night she disappeared . . .On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Flora's mother, her sister Heather, and Heather's best friend Jess had to somehow carry...
83) Full speed
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Jamie Swift, owner of a local South Carolina newspaper, and her enigmatic partner, millioniare playboy Max Holt, posing as husband and wife as they become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of gangsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.
86) Little secrets
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside. The clock is ticking for Rose Blakey. With nothing but rejections from newspapers piling up, her job pulling beers for cops at the local tavern isn't nearly enough to cover rent. Rose needs a story --a big one. In the weeks after the courthouse fire, precise porcelain replicas of Colmstock's daughters...
87) The separatists
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Series
Newsmakers novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Journalist and newscaster Erica Sparks is only planning to report on an explosive story--until she gets caught in the middle of it"--
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Max Revere novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Investigative reporter Maxine Revere has a theory: that the five New York City murders for which Adam Bachman is being tried are just part of his killing spree. In probing the disappearance of a retired couple who vanished the prior summer, Max uncovers striking similarities to Bachman's MO and develops a theory that Bachman wasn't working alone. Max wins a coveted pre-trial interview with the killer, whose disarming composure in the face of her questions...
89) Tell me
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English
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Just as a woman who was convicted of killing her daughter, Amity, twenty years prior is about to be set free after her son recants his testimony, reporter Nikki Gillette, a childhood friend of Amity, seeks the real truth.
91) Sharp objects
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and...
95) Rising darkness
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Series
Finding Sanctuary volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Years after leaving her Mennonite background, Sophie's newspaper job gives her access to information she can't ignore, and when she travels to Sanctuary, Missouri, for answers and recognizes a man she used to love, her own past gets tangled in the dangerous investigation"--
96) Gorko-slatko
Author
Series
Biblioteka Ambrozija volume knj. 40
Publisher
V.B.Z
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
Bosnian
97) The ice maiden
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Ridley Jones thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
100) Are you sleeping
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Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A "psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a long-closed murder case--and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter"--
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