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The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him t
63) Fade out
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Morganville vampires volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, life has changed--dramatically. The resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost s
64) Half-past dawn
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Waking up with suspicious injuries and no memory of the previous night, attorney Harper Keller is horrified to discover that he has been reported murdered and that his wife is missing.
65) Stay close
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Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
66) Summer's child
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THERE'S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES . . .
From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made . . .
On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden-and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant...
67) Happiness Falls
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2023.
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“We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk...
68) The quiet girl
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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical...
69) The neighbor
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Detective D. D. Warren novels volume 3
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Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren struggles to understand what is going on beneath the surface of wholesome normality projected by the Joneses, a young South Boston couple who have become the objects of a media frenzy since Sandra, a beautiful young teacher, disappeared, leaving her four-year-old daughter asleep in the house, and making her husband Jason, a reporter, look like suspect number one.
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 2
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English
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Missing persons expert Frankie Elkin, goes into a national forest in Wyoming looking for a young man who disappeared without a trace. But when the search team encounters immediate threats to their survival, Frankie realizes she's up against something very dark--and she's running out of time.
71) Flash and bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 14
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English
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"Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones --returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs's trademark blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" ( Entertainment Weekly ) and breathless suspense have made her books major bestsellers worldwide. Now, she delivers the fourteenth thriller in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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While visiting Chicago, twins Ashley and Bryce catch up with old friends, visit the house where they grew up, see many reminders of their deceased father, and help search for their best friends' uncle, who disappeared days before his wedding.
73) Looking for me
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2013].
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English
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Opening an antiques shop in Charleston after discovering a talent for restoring furniture, Teddi Overman struggles to come to terms with her shattered family and sense of self after receiving news that her long-missing brother might still be alive.
74) Ladder of Years
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“BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION.” The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family’s knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace. But Delia didn’t disappear. She ran. Exhausted with her routine and everyone else’s plans for her,...
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2014.
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Katie Chase, wife of Hal Chase - a guard in the San Francisco County Jail - has disappeared. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about it, Katie has been missing for five days. The case has become a suspected homicide, and Hal is the prime suspect. He wants Hardy as his defense lawyer. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to identify other possible suspects, and there is no shortage of them. As Glitsky probes further,...
76) Fragile: a novel
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Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 1
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Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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77) Gone
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Pierce Quincy novels volume 5
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
78) Beloved
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Where the heart lives volume 3
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English
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With her husband Tyson missing for eight years, Diana Brennan seeks to declare him legally dead in order to remarry, but when Tyson returns as a supposedly changed man, Diana must decide if he has really changed for the better.
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Published in January 1922, "The Secret Adversary" is the second detective fiction novel by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The book introduces the characters of Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, two out-of work twenty-somethings in post-war London. The two agree to form "The Young Adventurers, Ltd" company, hiring themselves out with the slogan "no unreasonable offer refused". They are quickly enlisted to solve the mysterious...
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