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1) The innocent
Author
Language
English
Description
Some mistakes can change your life forever. Like the one Matt Hunter made when he attempted to help a friend stop a fight that resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned. Now, nine years after his release, he's an ex-con taking nothing for granted. Married, and with a baby on the way, he feels like a lucky man. Then the phone call comes and in an instant the unraveling begins.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
3) Tar baby
Author
Language
English
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Description
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
4) Suspect
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed. in the United States of America.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin's life takes a dramatic turn when he is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease; but as he tries to cope with his fate, the police ask for his assistance in solving the murder of a nurse with whom he once worked not realizing that he would become a prime suspect.
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 1
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 1
Mike Bowditch Mystery
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 01
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 1
Mike Bowditch Mystery
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 01
Language
English
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Description
Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive--his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed...
7) Labor Day
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful
adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the
eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later
becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot,
and life-altering weekend.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
9) Lethal
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Susan Choi…proves herself a natural-a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn't put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again." -Joan Didion
A novel of impressive scope and complexity, "American Woman is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of…history and politics, of power and racism, and finally, of radicalism." (San Francisco...
11) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lester Ballard, always an outsider in his East Tennessee community, descends into a world of murder, madness, and necrophilia after the forced sale of his property and a false accusation of rape.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Jersey teens Jake Stephenson and Amanda Blake are turning into zombies and, having devoured half of their senior class, they are on the run, pursued by teen psychic Cass, a member of a government unit charged with killing zombies and keeping their existence secret.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy never dreamed she would become a killer, but after she strikes out in self-defense, she finds herself on the run from the police and trying to adjust to her new identity.
14) The power of Six
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
15) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
16) Reckless abandon
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Stone Barrington teams up with police chief Holly Barker to find a killer who has fled Barker's home turf in Orchid Beach, Florida, hoping to gain anonymity in the streets of New York City.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xx, 168 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heart of Darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post. "The "Secret Sharer" describes the conflict of a young captain torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a young officer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaing order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits. Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Big Horn Mountains. After transporting Shade and a group of other convicted murderers through a snowstorm, Walt is informed by the FBI...
19) Unsouled
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever, while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"In 1809, just when it looks like Jacky Faber and her beloved Jaimy will finally find their romance, Jacky is accused of treason and must flee Boston while her friends attempt to clear her name. Of course that means wild adventures for our fun-loving heroine, who manages to secure a job as a governess--and run away with the circus"--
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