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4721) The last note of warning
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2024.
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English
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"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found,...
4723) Obsession
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English
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While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios' business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived...
4725) Close to death: a novel
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[2024]
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English
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When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates.
4726) The missing baseball
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe follow clues to find Zach's missing baseball, signed by his favorite major league player, while competing in Spirit Week events at school.
4727) The campsite cold case
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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While camping, Jessie and her friends start discovering strange clues that could have something to do with a hiker who went missing years ago, but soon after they begin their investigation, they start receiving threatening messages from someone who wantsthem out of the woods--immediately.
4728) Birder, she wrote
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed. First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions...
4729) The disappearing dog
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
Feeling skeptical about a new kid's boasts about his magical talents, Frank and Joe Hardy wonder about a neighbor's prized show dog's recurring disappearances and reappearances, which seem to support the bragging newcomer's claims.
4730) A hard ticket home
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Pub. Date
2004
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English
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When a friend is diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant from her long-lost older sister, former cop Rushmore McKenzie embarks on an investigation that takes him to Minneapolis in search of the missing woman
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2015.
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English
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"Meet Dahlia Moss, the reigning queen of unfortunate decision-making in the Saint Louis area. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own she's offered a job. A job that she's woefully under-qualified for. A job that will lead her to a murder, an MMORPG, and possibly a fella (or two?). Turns out unfortunate decisions abound,...
4733) The raging storm
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2023.
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English
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"Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
4734) Dead girls talking
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2024.
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English
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Bettina Holland, known for being the daughter of The Smiley Face Killer, confronts her past and questions her beliefs about her father's guilt when a series of copycat murders emerge, as she teams up with Eugenia, the mortician's daughter, to unmask a murderer closer to home than she ever imagined.
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Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.
4736) Dance off
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
Nancy and her friends investigate when it appears the auditions for the new reality television program "Kids Can Dance" are being sabotaged.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
4739) We'll never tell
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2023.
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English
Description
While investigating an infamous Hollywood murder mystery for their final YouTube episode, four teenagers visit the scene of the crime, but one does not come out alive, leaving the others to solve crimes old and new--or die trying.
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