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Frankie Elkin novels volume 1
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Frankie Elkin is a recovering alcoholic with mental scars and heartbreaking guilt she carries with her everyday. These torturous memories guide her every waking moment, haunt her dreams each night and can only be temporarily warded off by her life's goal to find the missing persons that the police have stopped searching for. For the last ten years she has been on a one woman mission to find the missing. She has succeeded in finding sixteen missing...
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Holly and her super-smart Jack Russell terrier, Trixie, are back to solve a brand-new mystery in pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia, in the New York Times bestselling Paws and Claws series by Krista Davis!
Wagtail, Virginia, has it all. It's a gorgeous lakeside town with picturesque mountains, old-fashioned inns, friendly pet-loving townsfolk-and the highest murder rate for miles around.
A group of wealthy pet moms has come to Wagtail to pamper their...
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Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't...
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"When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn't keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn't seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald...
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Moving from the heart of the city of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for born townies, Ollie Harcourt, his wife, Caro, and their 12-year-old daughter, Jade. But when they view Cold Hill House - a huge, dilapidated, Georgian mansion - they are filled with excitement. But within days of moving in, it soon becomes apparent that the Harcourt family aren't the only residents in the house....
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A noted criminal defense attorney, Robert Rotenberg delivers a courtroom drama that successfully evokes the multicultural city of Toronto even as it keeps readers on the edges of their seats. In the tale, the "Voice of Canada" radio host confesses to murder-but the case is far from closed.
8) The 39 steps
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Criterion collection volume 56
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An innocent man (Donat) is accused of a murder he did not commit. He must find the real murderer to clear his own name; in doing so, he becomes involved with an international spy ring.
9) Bonnie Jack
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As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local...
11) Zeroville
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"A young ex-communicated seminarian, Ike "Vikar" Jerome, arrives in Los Angeles on the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie ''family'' led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders"--from www.imdb.com.
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Second L. A. quartet volume 1
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.
The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman....
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.
The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman....
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"After finishing up their senior year of high school, the Scooby-Doo-gang decide to travel in the Mystery Machine, seeking fun and adventure during what could possibly be their last summer together. However, monsters prevent them from completing their journey"--from www.imdb.com. Includes 13 episodes.
16) Zoolander no. 2
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"Derek and Hansel are lured into modeling again, in Rome, where they find themselves the target of a sinister conspiracy"--from www.imdb.com.
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"Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neves hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. Two weeks later, as Neves wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap--a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems. But when Neve arrives, alone in the dark...
18) Holmes & Watson
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A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
19) The unseen
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A law student finds himself in a twisted web of murder and deceit brought on by a dark force from his past.
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