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The price for the truth might be their family.When Theo and Auggie return home-safe and sound and miraculously alive after being dragged into a murder investigation-all Theo wants is for life to get back to normal. No more murders. No more investigations. Nothing, in other words, that might put Auggie in danger.But when a girl from school goes missing, Theo finds himself reluctantly drawn into looking for her. Shaniyah was his former student, for...
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The Girl in The Bush: A mystery story about a little town's dark secret Step into the enchanting yet deceptive tranquillity of Willowbrook with "The Girl in The Bush" an absorbing mystery novel tailored for English language learners at the B1-B2 level. Harper Bono, a seasoned detective, thought he'd hung up his hat for good. Leaving the noise and chaos of city life behind, he sought refuge in the idyllic town of Willowbrook, dreaming of a peaceful...
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A girl and her cat examine their reflections in a mirror in this charmingly illustrated fiction book for children. Kindergartners will increase early reading skills and reading comprehension through sight words and repetitive words and phrases. This 12-page guided reading book is ideal for kids ages 3-5.
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"The deceiver knows the Hungarian, the wise man keeps twenty-six ghosts in his library, and the widow carries the words of the dead."This is the final, cryptic entry scrawled in the journal belonging to the late John Chapel – a journal that detailed his obsession with finding a woman who didn't exist. Hers was just one of several faces that he insisted he saw there in the rain, and one of the many voices that called to him every night, drawing him...
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Her child is missing. And she'd do anything to find her… I stare at the little girl in the photo, her big eyes looking straight at me. 'Please,' the woman pleads holding the photo up. 'You have to help me. No one else will.' Every Friday Mercy Hamilton goes to the same supermarket. She doesn't go to buy groceries, instead, she shows a fading photo of a little girl to anyone who'll look – begging for help to find her daughter. One Friday, Erica...
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Danni has seen more in her eight years on this planet than most people see in a lifetime. The sole survivor of a motorway pile-up which took her mother's life, she is now safe and thriving with her adoptive family. Until the day the bad people come knocking. Forcing Danni to face the memories she has done such a good job forgetting . . .
Josie's quiet life is dismantled with a knock at the door. When she and her daughter are violently kidnapped,...
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As the January wind whips down the stairs to the train platform, Ellen Randall huddles into her coat, shivering. Suddenly, a flash of red catches her eye and she turns. It's a scarf. Red and cream, in a large, checked pattern. And the person wearing it- No! It can't be…
Three weeks later. In the dimly lit depths of the abandoned station, an eerie silence hangs heavily in the stale air, wrapping around the young man like an invisible shroud. Every...
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Traversing three generations of women torn apart by family trauma, The Girl in the Maze explores the complex relationship and challenges involved in both mothering and being mothered. I would caution you against delving into the past. The past is often best left exactly where it is. Emma Bowen has never had a close relationship with her mother, barely speaking with her in the last years of her life. But after her mother's death, Emma finds something...
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The woman falls. Her body begins to shake. Her brown eyes turn upwards, showing a mix of panic and desperate hope. She takes a deep breath and says one word: Blake. Then her eyes close, her face pales, and she goes still forever… The victim: Shannon, a woman who went out of her way to help the lost and hopeless, left abandoned to die by the side of the road. Where was she in those last few days before her death, and why was she so frightened? The...
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A mother calls for her child repeatedly in the soft summer air, her voice rising with panic. She runs across the decking to lean over the thick glass balustrade, her eyes searching the dark waters of the loch. Her only child is missing, and nothing will ever be the same again.
The disappearance of a three-year-old girl from her isolated Highland home one summer shook the nation. A massive police search involving divers in the loch and dogs combing...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets True Grit in this heartfelt novel of resilience, hope, and discovering a family where you least expect it, from award-winning author Robert Sharenow.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York City. Twelve-year-old Sarah has always dreamed of America, a land of freedom and possibility. In her small village she stares at a postcard of the Statue of...
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Merideth Gardner is about to give up on her dream of working for a city paper when fate intervenes. Tall, handsome billionaire Ian Stirling has just offered her the job of a lifetime … and all she has to do is pretend to be in love with him.Seven days. That's all Ian needs to convince his grandfather that he's given up his philandering ways. Then Meredith will get her payment - a job at the Daily Herald.Everything changes when the story of a missing...
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On the way home from a friend's house late one night, Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard. A mysterious girl keeps popping up from behind gravestones, and her face resembles a doll that belonged to Bradley's sister, a doll he stole from her as a prank. Could the spooky doll be back for revenge? Find out the answer to this question and many more in this collection of scary tales.
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Summary of David Lagercrantz's The Girl in the Spider's Web is the fourth novel in the Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz. This book follows Lisbeth Salander, a Swedish hacker who, while looking into her father and sister's criminal empire, uncovers information about ties between a criminal organization, the National Security Agency (NSA), and a massive technology corporation.
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A contract killing on a remote coastal track.
A deadly boat explosion occurs in nearby waters soon afterwards.
Are the two connected?
Meanwhile, Angelina makes an audacious escape with the assistance of her underworld connections and continues her ruthless agenda.
To follow is a chain of events that, when unravelled, shocks Nic Drakos to the core and links him inextricably to Elena Perez, imprisoned by Angelina on the other side of the world....
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A group of women in their 30s live in a cosy apartment building long enough to become good friends. In comes a young, live-in landlord who proves to be a perfect fit for their happy 'community'. He cooks and bakes for them – even gets a cat he calls Oprah. Much of the book is taken up with their sunny escapades.
However, under the surface of this carefree life lurks another reality, hiding in plain sight, in the person of a fifth woman who has...
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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When her hot one-night-stand turns out to be the man leading the restoration project she's been hired to photograph, and his sweet little girl has decided she's her new bestie, Flo Dennison, as things become complicated, must decide if one wild night can become so much more.
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