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1) The neighbor
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a wife and mother's disappearance from her suburban home, an ensuing police investigation focuses on the missing woman's husband, whose suspicious behavior reveals cracks in their seemingly idyllic family life.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years after her three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted and eleven years after he returned home, Beth Cappadora and her family must relive the horror of their experience when her other son Vincent's documentary about kidnapped children brings old memories to the surface and sets in motion a series of events that could tear the family apart forever.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly...
9) Find me
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Five years ago, Rosa walked to the end of the pier in the dead of night. She looked into the swirling water, and jumped. She was a brilliant young Cambridge student who had just lost her father. Her death was tragic, but not unexpected. Was that what really happened? The coroner says it was. But Rosa's boyfriend Jar can't let go. He sees Rosa everywhere - a face on the train; a figure on the cliff. He is obsessed with proving that she is still alive....
11) Brother Odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. She falls into an affair...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--
16) Faithful place
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank Mackey and Rosie Daly make plans to leave Dublin's inner city for a better life in London, but Rosie never shows up at their designated meeting place, so Frank leaves without her, only to return twenty-two years later as a detective assigned to investigate the discovery of Rosie's suitcase behind a fireplace in a derelict house.
17) Don't you cry
Author
Language
English
Description
In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn Collins to wonder where Esther is and whether or not she's the person Quinn thought she knew. Meanwhile, in a small Michigan harbor town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old...
18) The silkworm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
19) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The name of the elite, women-only coworking space stretches across the wall behind the check-in desk: THE HERD, the H-E-R always in purple. In-the-know New Yorkers crawl over each other to apply for membership to this community that prides itself on mentorship and empowerment. Among the hopefuls is Katie Bradley, who's just returned from the Midwest after a stint of book research blew up in her face. Luckily, Katie has an "in," thanks to her sister...
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