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Author
Series
The homeward trilogy volume 1
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1883 Colorado Springs, Odessa arrives at a famous sanitarium seeking a cure for the disease that killed her brothers, but she witnesses a murder in the hospital where she is being treated and must uncover the killer before she succumbs to her disease.
6322) Beauty to die for
Author
Series
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Juliette Taylor, a former supermodel who now markets beauty products at spiritual spa retreats, investigates when a rival from her modeling days is murdered, a situation made more complicated by the reappearance of an old flame.
6323) Act two for murder
Author
Series
Magnolia Steele mystery volume 2
Publisher
DGS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia may have escaped arrest for murder, but her troubles are far from behind her. She's still haunted by two things from her pas--her father's disappearance when she was a teen, and the other...well, her memories of a serial killer have returned, but it's best left where it belong--in the past. Needing closure, Magnolia decides to look into her father's cold case..." -- back cover.
6324) Gothikana
Author
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Bramble hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages : Illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
6326) King Nyx: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bakis, author of Lives of the Monster Dogs, creates an atmosphere of gut-churning dread from the first chapter, when two strange women warn of trouble on Arkel’s island while the Forts wait for their boat. Trouble happens quickly, and there are scenes so anxiety-producing that you might want to put the book down and check to see that your windows and doors are secure.
6327) 9 dragons: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
377 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
25 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Koko, Katie's new white puppy, is scared by a noisy truck and runs away, Katie and Pedro try to track her down in the snow, following several false leads until they finally see Koko"--Verso page.
6329) Chick-napped!
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 13
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy's class is hatching chickens to celebrate the coming of spring; but when they turn up missing, Nancy steps in to solve the mystery.
6330) Untying the shadows
Author
Publisher
eLectio Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tess Thompson always hoped the mystery surrounding her father's untimely death only days after Christmas when she was a child would one day be solved. Years later, a nostalgic glimpse back calls her to seek out the truth surrounding his cold-case murder for which, oddly, the police have no case record. While visiting her father's hometown in Florida, the keys to her past slowly turn. Old family secrets and hidden motives surface beyond what she could...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
St. Martin's paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While trying to manage being the maid of honor in three weddings, Meg Langslow finds herself in the midst of a mystery when her former sister-in-law's soon-to-be stepfather is found dead.
6332) When the cat's away
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A frowning scarecrow at Aunt Carmen's farm frightens Katie until Pedro reveals that it is not haunted"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mystery volume 08
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's younger sister and self-declared finder of lost persons and things, is determined to find her friend, Lacy Cecily, a confused young Baronet's daughter on the run from her father's devious schemes.
6335) Good girl, bad blood
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell...
6336) Kill her twice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
6337) The Hawthorne legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mystery. Riches. Romance. Betrayal. Two can play this game. Overnight, Avery Grambs went from sleeping in her car to being a billionaire heiress. Now ensconced in a world of opulence, riddles, danger, and family secrets, Avery is on the hunt for the one person who might hold the answers to all her question - including why eccentric billionaire Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters and...
6338) Better Off Dead (
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 26
Publisher
Random House Large Print Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
401 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun?until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather...
6339) Doll bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
6340) Vanishing hour
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up in rural Texas, where her father raised search-and-rescue dogs, and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she carefully photographs it all the same. All Grant Wycoff...