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Families with nothing to hide don't have so many secrets.
Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter's window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed.
Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. A teenage boy admits he was outside her bedroom window the night she disappeared. A halfway house for convicts recently opened in the neighborhood. The Lane family is thrown...
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"Liv has a lot of secrets. For her, home is the picturesque town of Å̊lesund, perched on a fjord in western Norway. One night, in the early-morning embers of a great party in the basement apartment she shares with two friends, Liv is watching TV, high on weed, and sees a python on an Australian nature show. She becomes obsessed with the idea of buying a snake as a pet. Soon Nero, the baby Burmese python, becomes the apartment's fourth roommate....
3) In the dark
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My name is Nora Logue. You've probably heard of me -- most people have. I am the mother of Daisy Logue. Seven years ago, I took her for a walk in the woods. Only I came out. I have no memory of what happened that day. I have tried to rebuild my life. Met a man, had another child -- Luca. But I can't let go of Daisy, or give up hope of seeing her again. And now, I have the chance to find out what happened to her. But what if pursuing the truth about...
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"A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaw family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes mysteriously. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will...
5) The promise
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In the beautiful spring warmth of Southern Maryland's Amish country, love always finds a way to bloom . . .
Like most Amish young women, Phoebe Yoder has dreams-but not of a courtship-at least not yet. She dreams of caring for the tender-hearted alpacas at her Englischer neighbor's farm, and learning the business herself. But that longing falls away the moment her baby sister goes missing. In that horrifying instant, desperate for her sister's safe...
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When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother, Pernilla, turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can't contact the police?" That's where Kouplan comes in. He's an Iranian refugee living in hiding. He was forced to leave Iran after news of his and his brother's involvement with a radical newspaper hated by the regime was discovered....
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At home in Beldon Grove volume 1
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It is the summer of 1838 in St. Lawrenceville, Missouri, and Molly McGarvie's life is about to change forever. When her beloved Samuel succumbs to cholera, Molly is heartbroken but determined to take care of herself and her children. But when Samuel's unscrupulous brother takes over the family business and leaves Molly to fend for herself, she knows she must head out on her own. It is a dangerous journey and Molly has to leave her old life behind....
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In 1997 Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready for their first summer as teenagers. But when Catherine, a classmate's younger sister, goes missing, Robin finds his carefree life swapped out for one of paranoia, guilt, and confusion. While parents form search parties and police chase leads, Robin becomes convinced that there is a darker force at play, one that he might have accidentally caused.
9) Last seen
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A Chicago crime reporter's idyllic home life comes undone when his child disappears in this thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of Six Seconds.
As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society's darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban...
As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society's darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban...
10) Boy, 9, missing
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In the tradition of Defending Jacob or Drowning Ruth, this is a suspenseful debut that explores the ramifications of revenge, justice, and the aftermath of a terrible night in the lives of two families. It should have been just a quiet evening with friends. But Francis lost his brother that night in what was ruled a tragic accident. He's tried to move on in the last twenty-three years, even though his father certainly hasn't. Indeed, his father still...
11) The leaving
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"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--Provided by publisher.
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Janie Johnson volume 1
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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
13) The quiet people
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Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime, like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So, when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time...
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?...
15) Finding Jake
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"A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob"--Provided by publisher.
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Tarakan chronicles volume 1
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There's a world full of puzzles. Some will simply challenge the mind. Others will unlock riches. And some . . .
WELL, NOT ALL PUZZLES ARE GAMES
More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old beliefs-but with new Gods-while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization.
In the mysterious...
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Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, the summer the Van Apfel sisters - Hannah, beautiful Cordelia and Ruth - vanished during the school's Showstopper concert, mysteriously disappearing from the amphitheatre by the river into the surrounding bushland. Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try and make sense of the summer that shaped her, and the girls that she never forgot.
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"Newly-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to a peaceful semi-retirement in the remote fishing village of Djevulsfjord on the stunningly beautiful island of Vagar. But when two boys go missing during the first whale hunt of the season, the repercussions strike at the heart of the isolated coastal community. As he pursues his investigations, Tristan discovers that the Mikkelsen brothers aren't the...
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