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(0)Carol Monda
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Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, catches liars and cheats—and, from time to time, killers.
Cat's brief marriage to runaround Johnnie Rizzo was a bust. But it gave her the mad skills she needed for her agency. She doesn't investigate for insurance companies and she won't find your long lost Uncle Harry. But if you're in Chicagoland and you suspect your partner is stepping out, give her
...42) Perfect match
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Jodi Picoult is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback ed.
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English
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Waking up in the hospital as one of two survivors of a horrifying plane crash, Nell struggles to recover from her ensuing amnesia with the help of family, friends, and memory-jogging music before realizing that the stories she is being told do not feel accurate.
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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“A gloriously over-the-top scare fest that has hidden depths. Readers will root for Kris all the way to the explosive, poignant finale.”—Publishers Weekly
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
Only a girl with a guitar can save us all.
Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead...
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
Only a girl with a guitar can save us all.
Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead...
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Chicago's Pants On Fire Detective Agency targets liars and cheats. But PI Cat DeLuca is once again up to her smokin' skinny jeans in murder.
Cat is out running in a neighborhood park when she crashes over the faceless body of Bernie Love. Bernie was the finance guy to the scary Provenza family, with whom he grew up. And friend to Cat's shady, Ferrari-wheeling-cop Uncle Joey. As she hauls out her phone, Cat is assaulted by someone with a Rolex,
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come Closer and the Claire DeWitt series.
"Gran's writing, like the grimoire, is palpably seductive. The search for pleasure and magic is an aphrodisiac, one that pulses on the page." — Danielle Trussoni, The New York Times
"Gran perfectly captures the eccentric world of antiquarian bookselling
...49) Saint's Gate
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Two people, isolated by their pasts. An obsessive killer who will force them together. Welcome to Saint's Gate.
Emma Sharpe is summoned to a Maine convent, partly for her FBI art crimes work, partly because of her past with the Order. At issue is a mysterious painting of Irish lore and Viking legends. But when the nun who contacted her is murdered, it seems legend is becoming deadly reality.
Colin Donovan is one of the...
50) Only forever
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English
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In "Only Forever," Vanessa discovers that the man she has fallen in love with is linked to a devastating incident from her past, and in "Thunderbolt over Texas," a couple enter into a marriage of convenience that leads to something more.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum.
When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic...
When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book—and find it.
The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie....
The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie....
53) Dark sky
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Juliet Longstreet has made her share of enemies, and now one of them is out of prison and threatening to kill her. Her mission: find him first. But hot on her suspect's trail is Special Forces officer Ethan Brooker, who has a way of dropping into Juliet's life without warning. Haunted by his wife's death, Ethan is a man Juliet knows she should avoid. And now he's focused on a related mission of his own and can't-or won't-give Juliet...
54) Cold Ridge
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Cold Ridge: Carine Winters accepts the job of photographing Sterling Rancourt's historic Boston home knowing she's taking a risk--she could run into Tyler North, the pararescuer who once saved Rancourt's life and the man who all but left Carine at the altar a year ago. Then Carine finds a body in Rancourt's house--and the prime suspect in the murder is Tyler North's best friend. Tyler is returning from a rescue mission on dangerous Cold Ridge in northern...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person.
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
56) Suddenly
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HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c1993
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English
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In idyllic Tucker, Vermont, life moves lazily along for Paige Pfeiffer. When her best friend's suicide shatters her complacency, however, Paige is sent reeling and her comfortable world is gone for good. As she struggles with her grief, she is also forced to care for the friend's adopted baby daughter. Her only hope is that some sense of normalcy will return in time. But with tragedy also comes unexpected joys. A blossoming romance with the head of...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience that sheds new light on the original film.
On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of...
On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves."-Lydia Davis, from the forewordA Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story...
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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New from the Winner of ECPA's Fiction Book of the Year Seventeen-year-old Molly Fisk does not go outside. She's ruled by anxiety and only feels safe in the tiny tourist-town museum she and her mother run and call home. Yearning to live free but unable to overcome deep wounds from her past, she stays hidden away. Then the chance arrival of a woman Molly knew six years ago changes everything. Six years ago, newly single Claire Rodriguez was an empty...
60) Cold river
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Series
Black Falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
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Hannah Shay, who has found success with her café in Black Falls and is about to become a prosecutor, finds herself caught up in an investigation involving a violent crime ring that may involve a man from her past while Sean Cameron returns from his Vermont hometown in an attempt to reveal the identity of his father's killer.