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1) Hostage
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Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.
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"Because you're worth rescue." Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for awhile. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn -- both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and...
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Back from a trip to Egypt, Duane Moore finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, his West Texas hometown. Duane cannot find any solace or familiarity and cannot even bring himself to revisit the house he shared with his late wife, Karla. He spends his days aimlessly riding his bicycle and living in his cabin outside town. The only consolation is meeting the young, attractive geologist, Annie Cameron. He's also in love with his psychiatrist, Honor...
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Spenser novels volume 27
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Boston P.I. Spenser heads down South where someone is making death threats against a thoroughbred horse destined to be the next Secretariat. As Spenser arrives at the horse owner's request, he finds that down in Dixie, the lies are buzzing--and the dying ...
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Chicago Stars volume 4
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Avon Books
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[1998]
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Rachel Stone is a widow, a single mother, broke and alone. Worse, her late husband, a televangelist, stole five million dollars. She is desperate.
7) Blood memory
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Forensic odontologist Catherine "Cat" Ferry is haunted by the murder of her father that took place when she was eight years old. Her latest case in New Orleans brings on panic attacks and she returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi in an effort to regain control. Soon, however, both she and the FBI realize that the murders now taking place in New Orleans may be bound up with Cat's family and her past.
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NAL Accent/Penguin
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©2009.
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Upon inheriting her grandfather's home, Piper Mills remembers a box she had helped him bury in the yard more than a decade ago and retrieves it from the ground, finding inside pages of a scrapbook and other items that reveal a painful secret from her grandmother's past.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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First edition.
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"From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment -- a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer" --
11) The legal limit
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
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1st ed.
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Growing up with an abusive father and his brother Gates, now an imprisoned felon, Mason Hunt has made a success of his life as the attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia, until his brother attempts to have Mason use his legal influence to get him out of jail.
13) Francie
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
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First edition.
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When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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Imagining a life elsewhere, undefined by her family’s history, Carly Castillo, in a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families in Galveston, Texas, finds everything changed by the arrival of Hurricane Ike, which forces each resident to decide whether to hunker down or abandon their hard-won homes.
Welcome to Galveston, Texas. Population 50,241.
A popular tourist destination and major shipping port, Galveston attracts millions...
15) With
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Stay More series volume 10
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Toby Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
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"With is a tale, full of unexpected twists and turns. What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into a story of Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top. Without 'human' company for a decade, forced to live off the land, Robin is never alone; her animal companions grow more numerous year by year, and the 'live ghost' of a young boy who once lived...
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The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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First Edition.
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""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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