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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Will Matthews came to Wall Street with hopes and dreams of hitting it big. But things have not been going as expected. He's on the verge of being fired when he meets the devilishly mysterious and fabulously wealthy Sam Abaddon. Winning Sam's business answers Will's prayers, catapulting the young stockbroker into the privileged world of money and luxury. Not only that, but Will also has met his dream girl, ambitious attorney Gwen Lipton. All at once,...
42) Knock knock
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets. Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor--and witness--was the five-year-old daughter. The girl was placed in the witness protection program,...
43) Hidden away
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When he falls in love with Sarah Daniels, the woman he has been hired to protect from her murderous half brother, KGI agent Garrett Kelly will do anything to keep her safe, despite her dark past.
44) Half blood blues
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café.
45) The vanishing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed--they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists from a mysterious government agency arrived. Determined not to become research subjects of strange experiments, the residents of...
46) Forged in love
Author
Series
Wyoming Sunrise volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After surviving a brutal stagecoach robbery, Mariah Stover attempts to rebuild her life as she takes over her father's blacksmith business, but the townspeople meet her work with disdain. She is drawn to the new diner owner as he faces similar trials in the town. When danger descends upon them, will they survive to build a life forged in love?" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route, where Mrs. Epifanio, the elderly woman who lives there, says she hasn't seen her usual caretaker, Diane, in a few days. Supposedly, Diane has the flu-or so Diane's son Vincent said when he first dropped by and vanished into Mrs. E's bedroom to do no-one-knows-what....
48) Are you awake?
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"They both think they saw her. But can they trust their own eyes? With two young children, Mary hasn't slept in what feels like years. For his part, Tim never feels safe enough to sleep. And so one hot, exhausting night, the two strangers meet while seeking solace in a nearby park. There, they witness something horrific: a violent attack in the window of a neighbouring house. Bonded by what they've seen, Tim and Mary are desperate to find answers....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton is the oldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher and faith healer. Every summer, the Hortons pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time during which Miriam's father holds massive healing services, drawing thousands of people looking to be cured of ailments and disease. This revival season, though, doesn't go as planned, and after one service in...
Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas...
52) Otra vida
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
El responsable y honorable Nick se enamora de la apasionada Testigo de Jehová Anna en el transcurso de un caluroso verano. Cuando la estricta religión de Anna amenaza con dividirlos, debe elegir entre el amor y la familia. Pero Nick está demasiado asustado para luchar por Anna, y Anna se aleja. Años más tarde, cuando la relación de Nick con su impulsivo hermano menor, Sal, llega a un punto crítico, Anna regresa a la vida de Nick. ¿Encontrará...
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor and into the web of their family secrets and double lives. The same night she photographs the Reynolds holiday get-together, Morgan becomes witness to a homicide of a cop that triggers the discovery of a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the zDark Star.y Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
55) Following
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Alden likes to follow people. He's not trying to be a creep, he just wants to be an investigator someday, and it's good practice. But spying on people comes with risks, like when Alden sees popular Greg Matthes seemingly murder his girlfriend, Amy, one night in the bad part of town. But the facts aren't adding up, especially because Amy may be alive. Now Alden has to figure what he could have seen... and what secrets Greg is hiding. -- from Amazon....
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On the now infamous night of August 31, 1997, a young woman's life is thrown into turmoil when fortune places her at the scene of the fatal car crash in which Lady Diana Frances Spencer, then Princess of Wales, lost her life. Scared and alone, she flees the scene of the accident. While there are no immediate repercussions resulting from her flight, as news of the tragic event spreads and TV stations, papers and radio talk of nothing else for days,...
57) Run man run
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witness. A few days after Christmas, a white cop in New York is as drunk as he's ever been. And he's convinced his car has been stolen. He believes the thieves are the Black workers at a luncheonette on 37th and Fifth avenue, and when he staggers in, his .32 caliber goes off....
Author
Series
In Death series volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is...
59) The hate u give
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Series
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Realistic Fiction [High School Readers]
Award Nominated Women Authors
Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
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Award Nominated Women Authors
Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
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Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty. Soon to be a major motion picture from Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Teenagers, Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe witness a murder. Poppy is convicted of murder while Serena is set free. Years later, Poppy attempts to set the record straight, while Serena, married with children, attempts to forget about her past.
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