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1) The island
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah -- but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.
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English
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Violin virtuoso and former child prodigy Gideon Davies suddenly loses his ability to play. As he works with a psychiatrist to regain his gift, Gideon begins to dredge up memories from his childhood. Suddenly, people involved in an incident from his past, beginning with his mother, are being run over by a big black car. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and constables Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata are asked to investigate the hit-and-run murders....
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English
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"A timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora...
5) Bad guys
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Series
Language
English
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To Zack's family's relief, the stay-at-home science-fiction writer has ventured out of the house to work for the city paper. But while researching an article, Zack stumbles upon what may be a homicide. Suddenly he's at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with an infamous mob figure. And all is not quiet on the home front either, as Zack's kids make some troubling new acquaintances of their own... As his worlds collide,...
Author
Series
(Karen S.)Maplecreek Amish trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a murder case threatens her safety, attorney Brooke Benton seeks sanctuary in the quiet Amish community of Maplecreek. Although the locals disagree with her worldly ways, she soon manages to find a place in their lives. But when a tragic hit-and-run accident turns fatal, Brooke cannot abide by the community's belief in absolute forgiveness. She wants answers. Daniel Brand left his childhood home to explore the outside world years ago. Now he...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime....
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