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Where are the children? volume 1
Language
English
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Nancy Eldredge leads a quiet life on Cape Cod until a newspaper article and her children's disappearance bring to light her trial for murder in California.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Poor Little Lost Cowboy. He's strayed away from his mummy, and cannot find her anywhere. As he searches for her he bumps into a cactus, bumps his bottom, and finally bumps himself into a hole. At last he meets a kindly toad who gives him some very sound advice - stay put, and your mummy will find you. This is a witty, lively story with great rhythms and endearing characterisation throughout. 3 yrs+
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English
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"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris-silent,...
64) The Child Finder
Author
Series
Naomi Cottle novels volume 1
Language
English
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"It's 'Deliverance' encased in ice... Denfeld's novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish." — New York Times Book Review
A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from
...65) Bite the dust
Publisher
4 Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two bounty hunters and an adventurer searching for missing orphan children find themselves facing off against a cruel mining baron and the small army he uses to control his crooked town. To save the children, they'll have to fight back hard.
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English
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"In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J.M. Barrie's classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan--who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be--to save her daughter's life. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy--yes, that Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her......
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Series
Publisher
High Bridge Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Unfairly convicted of murder, gunfighter Buck Fletcher is given a last chance at freedom if he can rescue Senator Falcon Stark's daughter from an Arizona cult, a situation complicated by Apaches and someone intent on killing the girl.
Author
Series
Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 6
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bear's animal friends come to his rescue when he becomes lost and frightened in the woods.
69) 10th anniversary
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Secrets. Lies. Murder. In this pulse-pounding Women's Murder Club novel, mysteries and lives unravel.
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby has been kidnapped without a trace. As her marriage begins to suffer from the pressures of work and her new boss watches her every move,...
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby has been kidnapped without a trace. As her marriage begins to suffer from the pressures of work and her new boss watches her every move,...
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English
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"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. Theship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club....
71) The super
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Former cop Phil Lodge takes a job as a superintendent in a Manhattan apartment building. When a teen goes missing, along with several other tenants, Phil suspects a sadistic murderer may be roaming the eerie corridors and that his daughters' lives are in danger. But whom can he trust when everybody around him has something to hide?
72) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle and one-time suspect, reveals the details of the flawed police investigation, the media's manipulation of the family, and the eyewitness account of nine-year-old Mary Katherine Smart that went largely ignored by investigators. New...
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English
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A stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house.
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's summer house on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father takes his own life, and her mother and...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For bickering siblings Ryan and Emma it was going to be a fun weekend visit with their dad at his job in Africa. But when their small plane crash-lands in the Serengeti, they have only each other, along with their fellow passenger, a Malamute named Chinook, to rely on. The rescue teams are searching. Their mom is panicked. Can brother, sister and one courageous dog now learn how to conquer their fears and trust each other in the most beautiful yet...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Suspense, humor and plenty of heart . . . spooky and satisfying.”—People
Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find...
Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find...
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinne when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
80) Ink and bone
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Language
English
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In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift lands her in the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance.
For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future: dream about things before they happen, see beyond the physical world, and unconsciously make supernatural things happen....
For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future: dream about things before they happen, see beyond the physical world, and unconsciously make supernatural things happen....
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