January LaVoy
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Baxter family volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history paper for a freshman English class. He decides to interview his grandfather about that long ago love story. John is hesitant,...
63) Never
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English
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Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
Author
Series
Mistletoe collection volume 1
Language
English
Description
Alone and distrustful after a bitter divorce, Elise surprises herself by accepting a proposition from a man who lives in her building that they pretend to be a couple for the weeks preceding the Christmas holiday.
66) The October list
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Language
English
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Two days ago, Gabriela's life was normal. Then, out of the blue, she gets word that her six-year old daughter has been taken. She's given an ultimatum: pay half a million dollars and find a mysterious document know as the "October List" within 30 hours, or she'll never see her child again.
67) It had to be you
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Series
Under suspicion volume 8
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way-handsome, intelligent, popular-until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death...
68) Coma
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English
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A third year medical student at a Boston teaching hospital uncovers a medical black market dealing in human organs when she investigates why two young patients have lapsed into comas. They called it minor surgery, but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others; all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Considered one of the...
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English
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Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A storm builds as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs, and there are dark currents of conflict coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the...
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Series
Rachel Knight novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A Deputy DA specializing in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realizes she might not know those around her as well as she thinks.
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Series
Nina Reilly volume 13
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
At her law office in South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly sees a client who wants to locate the remains of his son, missing nine years and presumed dead. Although she suspects that her former investigator and lover, Paul van Wagoner, may have had something to do with the son's disappearance, Nina accepts Peter Brinkman's case. Soon, caught between two body snatchers and desperate to protect Paul, Nina is forced to step outside the legal system.
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English
Appears on list
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Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top. When they are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, dark secrets of their team begin to be laid bare. The biggest mystery to solve in this...
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Series
Jake Brigance volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
75) Killer ambition
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Series
Rachel Knight novel volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown.
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Language
English
Description
"The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to...
77) The silken web
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One woman, two men--all trapped in a silken web. Kathleen is a young sophisticate marrying one man while still in love with another--and hiding her pain behind hard work. Erik is a talented videographer who let Kathleen know he found women easy to love but not to marry. Seth is the wealthy heir to a department store fortune who could give Kathleen everything she wanted--except the one thing that would make her happy. Now all would be caught in a web...
78) The lioness
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor...
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Agenda 21 volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
It was once called America, but now it is just 'the Republic.' Following the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, the once-proud people of America have become obedient residents who live in barren, brutal Compounds and serve the autocratic, merciless Authorities.
80) The Snow Angel
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Radio and television personality Glenn Beck is the author of seven consecutive #1 New York Times best-sellers spanning multiple genres. The Snow Angel is a heartwarming tale about pain and forgiveness, memories and hopes. Tragically robbed of a mother's love as a child, Rachel now feels trapped in an abusive marriage. But when her husband turns his drunken rage on her daughter Lily—the only light in her dark world—Rachel finds the courage
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