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How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel--and how far will we go to protect it? David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle years--raising two children; overseeing care for David's ailing mother; leaning into their careers, both at David's university teaching job, where he's up for an important promotion, and at the ad agency where Caroline has recently returned to work after years...
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Luck has never been on Lucie Palmer's side. She feels her life is a cursed one, full of loneliness and cruel blows. How else can she explain being removed from the family she loved as a child? Or being imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit as a young woman? Her life isn't fair...
But now it's time to rebuild her life, to start afresh. Lucie attempts to learn the secrets of her family's past, about the people she was never allowed to love. But...
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FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when a prolific serial killer begins terrorizing the area, Ella suspects there's more going on than meets the eye.
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)
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GIRL, UNKNOWN (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense...
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This is an intriguing, fictional account, one meant to stir the imagination of anybody, especially of an Old Testament reader. So many times we read a verse, and go right on to the next, and never meditate on what we have just read. Much of this story is fiction, imagined from meditating on two such verses. II Kings 5:2,3 mention a servant girl of Naaman's wife. Neither are ever named. However, the girl is brave enough to tell her mistress of a prophet...
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One evening after work hours, Jenny, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It's only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.
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For reasons never explained to him, Edgar Arden was raised and educated on the Continent, away from his father and sister Clare. Now after the death of his father Edgar returns as squire of Arden Hall. The only shadows in his path are the enmity of the next heir, his cousin Arthur Arden, and vague rumours that Edgar is not the legitimate heir. But meanwhile he settles into his new role, and finds himself attracted to a neighbourhood family of lively...
7) Girl, Lured
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FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when a new killer begins claiming victims who have suffered tragedies themselves, Ella is at a loss. What could the connection mean?
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)
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GIRL, LURED (An Ella...
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FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when victims of a new killer are found with classical music blaring nearby, Ella must decode the meaning of this macabre symphony-and fast.
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)
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GIRL, MISSING...
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
10) The bear
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"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
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Investigators of the unknown volume 3
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Georgina and Poco try to help their friend Walter who is suffering from an identity crisis and receiving strange messages from his dead mother.
12) The in-between
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Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won't stop staring at him. So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. It's the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago in...
13) Ordinary girls
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Fifteen-year-old Plum and her older sister Ginny find their relationship tested by family finances, personality differences, and the secrets they are keeping from each other.
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Cape Charade volume 2
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"One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot wound on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence and her very self. She finds herself in...
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Read Beth Hoffman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of
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A baker's dozen tunes from Alicia Key's chart-topping fifth CD. Includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of the hit singles "Girl on Fire" and "Brand New Me," plus: De Novo Adagio (Intro) * Fire We Make * Limitedless * Listen to Your Heart * New Day * Not Even the King * 101 * One Thing * Tears Always Win * That's When I Knew * When It's All Over.
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40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate.But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she...
20) This tender land
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"1932, Minnesota.The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and...