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41) Get out
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Chris, a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend's family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.
Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eleven true stories of people who simply went missing and what could have happened to them.
Lest we forget. This book is dedicated to the search for truth.
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43) The edge
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Ford "Mac" MacDougal becomes caught in a mysterious web of evil when he rushes to the small town known as The Edge to be with his sister who is in a coma after driving her car off a cliff, only to have her wake up and then disappear.
44) After I'm gone
Author
Language
English
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Description
Thanks to Felix Brewer's lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, Bambi and their three girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Bambi suspects his mistress, Julie, knows where he is.
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Your husband had an affair. What do you do when the woman who destroyed your marriage asks for your help? A new thriller from the “hugely engrossing” author (Catherine Ryan Howard, Edgar Award finalist). Lauren Wade hates Jem Carter, and Jem hates her. So, when Lauren gets a message from Jem asking for help, she suspects it’s some sort of attention-seeking stunt by the woman she caught in bed with her husband. Lauren decides to simply alert...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter’s disappearance.
It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small midwestern town. Her loving parents, her introverted sister, her friends and boyfriend must now do everything they can to find her. As desperate search parties...
It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small midwestern town. Her loving parents, her introverted sister, her friends and boyfriend must now do everything they can to find her. As desperate search parties...
49) Fall from grace
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Missing persons investigator David Raker looks into the disappearance of a retired London homicide detective, who went out to collect firewood and never returned.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions...
51) Amethyst dreams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Hallie Knight is invited to Topsail Island by the ailing Nicholas Trench who wants her to try and find out what happened to his grandaughter Susan, a dear college friend of Hallie's who disappeared two years earlier, but there are people who are not pleased to have Hallie around and soon she begins to fear her own life is in danger.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then...
Author
Publisher
Agate Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A deep dive that "has brought together all the evidence" in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder ( Daily Mail ). Thirty-five years ago, Helen Brach walked out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and vanished without a trace. By all accounts, the sixty-five-year-old heiress to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy fortune was in good health. But shortly after her leaving the clinic the details of Helen...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a bizarre case in Myrtle Beach, and the trials that followed a young woman's disappearance, by the bestselling author of The Black Widower. On a cold Southern night in 2013, under a full moon, twenty-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again. The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant made international...
56) Force of nature
Author
Language
English
Description
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, and Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator, are quick to take a new case involving a frantic mother searching for her teenage daughter. This well-behaved and gifted student may or may not have been kidnapped, but she has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. With Chet's highly trained nose leading the way, their hunt for clues takes them into the desert to biker...
58) The Ice Palace
Author
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other's company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss's world is shattered. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn's fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A mesmerizing first novel about a man, a woman, and a disappearance.
"I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened."
So begins John Haskell's mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio, the story of a happily married man who discovers, as he walks out of a convenience store, that his life has suddenly vanished. In cool, precise prose, written...
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