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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Kathy Kelly's world was shattered when a plane carrying her husband--an Iraq War veteran and devoted father--and her two children vanished from the sky one night. No trace of the plane was ever found.Eight years later, Kathy has struggled to rebuild her life, but then wreckage of his plane is found in the wilderness of Great Smoky Mountain National Park--hundreds of miles from where her husband's plane should have been. The pilot perished in the crash,...
662) Westwind
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In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: a British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact...
Author
Series
Shawn O'Brien volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Description
On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry, whose weapons of war have spread death and destruction around the world--and made a few men in Big Buck, Texas, incredibly rich. Now, a Mexican-born teenager has disappeared into this fortress factory, where men work and sweat as slaves. This boy's sister wants to learn her brother's fate, and she just happens to know a man...
665) Ilusionarium
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Christian Bennet, veterano periodista ganador de un Premio Pulitzer, recibe una enigma?tica llamada de Martha Sullivan, propietaria del diario El Sentinel de Nueva York, postrada por una enfermedad mortal, que le hace un singular encargo: quiere que localice a su hija y u?nica heredera, Angela, desaparecida an?os atra?s, ya que si esta no aparece el perio?dico caera? en manos de un grupo inversor.
El mundo quiere ser engañado. Una vibrante novela...
Author
Pub. Date
p2014
Description
Beautiful, spirited Abigail Hale, daughter of the surgeon at Aldersgate School of Medicine, detests the challenging, hard-bargaining Max almost as much as Jack. But she must procure the necessary specimens if she is to save the college and her father's career. She believes she is going to be successful, until Jack double-crosses her. Then she's swept into a plot of danger and intrigue, one where Max must intervene to protect her, no matter the risk...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must.
668) Before I fall
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
Rose Montgomery parks her family's trailer in Fort Glory, Oregon, with one goal: to carve out a new life for herself and her little brother, Charlie. They need a fresh start for their family, and she thinks she's finally found it in a town where nobody knows their names.
But Rose's plans come crashing down when, in an instant, Fort Glory disappears and every person in town vanishes into thin air--including Charlie. Rose and a small band of teens,...
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her neighbor Evie Verver are best friends. Lizzie believes her neighbor's family is idyllic and loves spending time over there. But when Evie disappears, Lizzie is beset with questions about her friends whereabouts. As she begins her own quest for the truth, Lizzie uncovers a series of secrets that makes her question everything she knew about Evie.
Pub. Date
p2015.
Description
This collection includes tales of four Disney Princesses all in one volume!
Ariel: The Shimmering Star Necklace
Ariel's young friend Marina is missing! The only clue she left behind is a mysterious diary entry about a secret new friend. Now Ariel must follow the clues along with Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle in order to find Marina in this delightful princess adventure!
Belle: The Mysterious Message
It isn't
...671) Just the way you are
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Series
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Working for an answering service to support herself while searching for her long-lost siblings, separated after the disappearance of her parents, Hope Prescott finds herself falling for wealthy businessman Zachariah Givens after she mistakes him for a butler.
Author
Series
Lunch lady comics volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, investigates a suspicious author after he visits the school and the gym teacher goes missing.
When the crime-fighting school lunch lady works as the cook at summer camp, she investigates the mystery of the legendary swamp monster.
Author
Series
Jessie files volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When Jessie and her friends decide to go camping as part of the Weekend in the Woods event, it doesn't take long for them to start discovering strange clues that could have something to do with a hiker who went missing years ago. Soon after they begin their investigation, they start receiving threatening messages from someone who wants them out of the woods, immediately. Could someone be trying to cover up what really happened to the missing hiker?...
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Wyatt Hunt is a self-employed P.I., working low-profile surveillance and insurance fraud cases. When a federal judge is found murdered in Pacific Heights, Hunt enlists his confederation of friends, stringers, and associates--the Hunt Club--to help bring the murderer to justice.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan. There, Gary meets a beautiful woman, but she leaves before he catches her name. All he has to remember her by is the title of the book she was reading: The Clementine Complex. And when Brendan goes missing, too, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Clementine to get some answers.
677) Sunny: a novel
Series
The Dark Manual volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Description
In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto is mourning the loss of her husband and son to a plane crash. Alone in her big modern house, which feels like more of a prison, Susie spends her days drinking heavily and taking her anger out at the only “sentient” thing left in her life: Sunny, the annoying home robot her husband designed. Susie despises Sunny, and sometimes even gets a sinking feeling that Sunny is out to hurt her.
To escape her paranoia...
678) Shadow of the dragon
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When brilliant and eccentric scientist Liu Wangshu disappears from his apartment in China, the Ministry of State Security is furious, and certain they know what's happened: A defection to the Americans. President Jack Ryan knows how valuable an asset Liu would be - responsible for much of China's recent technological progress, his latest project rumoured to be the biggest yet. The problem is that none of Ryan's team have any idea where Liu is....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
When his daughter's father-in-law, legendary navy officer Hkåan von Enke, inexplicably disappears during a routine walk, Inspector Kurt Wallander personally spearheads the search. As he investigates, Wallander starts to uncover a conspiracy dating back to the Cold War, one which threatens to plunge all of Sweden into a scandal. However, Wallander's efforts are hampered when he begins to experience memory loss.