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1) Child Finder
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In this first story in the Child Finder Trilogy, Major Patrick O'Donnell, an Air Force Special Agent assigned to the Pentagon, begins experiencing haunting nightmares about children who have been abducted and murdered-before their bodies are found. It quickly becomes apparent that he has a special psychic gift that the government is all too eager to exploit.
He is drawn into a Top Secret black world community overseen by the FBI that leverages his...
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Just when Special Agent O'Donnell thought he had put the past behind him he receives a call from his mentor. In this second novel of the Child Finder Trilogy, the TOP SECRET child rescue program O'Donnell had been a part of has been revised, revamped, resurrected!
The government needs his psychic skills more than ever. An evil, menacing child killer is on the loose and no one, but Pat can stop him!
But O'Donnell soon discovers this new nemesis is...
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New York, NY (August 1, 2011) Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Special Agent Mike Angley writes his military/political thrillers with the genuine voice, insight and realism that comes with actual experience in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. Angley's novel brings the reader into a dangerous game of international intrigue.
North Korean terrorists stage a brazen attack on the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, stealing his twin daughters in...
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Three years ago Madison Culver went missing at the age of five while looking for a Christmas tree with her family. Private investigator Naomi Cottle continues the investigation and believes that Madison's disappearance can only be the result of an abduction. Naomi's personal journey from foster child to adulthood parallels her search for Madison, and as her fears and sources of determination come to light, the narrative also dips into Madison's mind,...
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HER BABY HADBEEN KIDNAPPED… Former Las Vegas showgirl Dakota Armstrong was desperate when her son was stolen from her. He'd been taken by one of the most dangerous men in Nevada, and she had little hope of recovering him by herself. When handsome and charming Russell Andreini of Child Finders, Inc., promised to find the boy, Dakota insisted on helping him. But while they fought to save her son, she found herself fighting a different battle-against...
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"A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the...
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Join award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens of Moms Don't Have Time to Read on a quarantine journey filled with food, exercise, sex, books, and more.
It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on living during the pandemic.
Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do...
8) FaceOff
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Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
9) Suspicion
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"The thriller to read in 2014, about a single father who is forced to make a choice with unspeakable consequences-from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder. When single father Danny Goodman suddenly finds himself unable to afford the private school his teenage daughter adores, he has no one to turn to for financial support. In what seems like a stroke of brilliant luck, Danny meets Thomas Galvin, the father of his daughter's new best friend,...
10) Finders keepers
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"In a moving, unforgettable Southern saga of lost and found, a woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity. Now in trade paperback for the first time! Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for nothing. But as she grows into young adulthood, all she feels is loss and a desperate need to break free from the stifling possessiveness...
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To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story--an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she was chosen to be the first (and only) black child in the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in 1960. At the time, Ruby was too young to understand how the simple act of attending school would change the lives of many to come. Her courageous act left the legacy that given a chance, anyone at any age can make a difference in the world.
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Antarctic Press
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2018
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Having joined with a quasi-military adventuring band, fighter farm girl Clariette has survived her first, fierce taste of battle. Now, she and the wounded troops arrive at a town filled with orphans. There, a dear friend pleads for help in rescuing one child from nearby, but will Clari be caught between this and her obligations to the Warriors of Dawn?
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Miss Julia has decided to turn over a new leaf and is determined to stop meddling in other peoples' lives. But her hands are full before long! Etta Mae is worried about losing her job now that the retirement care center is closing. Meanwhile, Mildred is sent into a tizzy when a grandchild she's never met shows up on her doorstep. With her husband fighting a mysterious illness, Mildred's all on her own. Luckily, Miss Julia has experience dealing with...
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"Bai Jiang--San Francisco's best-known souxun ("people finder")--is hired to track down the mysterious Daniel Chen. Police inspector Kelly suspects Chen of being involved in a botched drug heist that resulted in the death of an officer. Bai has her own suspicions. She thinks the police just want to see Chen dead. Her investigation leads Bai into deadly intrigue as she finds herself caught between international intelligence agencies and merchants of...
17) The Lewis man
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Lewis trilogy volume 2
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The male Caucasian corpse - marked by several horrific stab wounds - is initially believed by its finders to be over two-thousand years old. Until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The body, it transpires, is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the twentieth century. Meanwhile, Fin Macleod has returned to the island of his birth. Having left his wife, his life in Edinburgh and his...
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Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, "How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?" For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.
Collected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished...