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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 2
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Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 19
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After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without...
6) Corrupted
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Taking the case of a former classmate who has been wrongly accused of murdering a bully who sent him to juvenile detention when they were children, Bennie is forced to relive some of the darkest memories of her life in order to defend the boy she once failed.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 4
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490L
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While visiting Wallis's castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 18
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[1971]
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Nancy Drew sets out to prove that her father's client was unjustly accused of trying to sabotage the United States space program.
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Goldy Bear mysteries volume 2
Goldy Schulz Culinary volume 2
A Goldy Schultz Culinary Mystery volume 2
Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery
Goldy Schulz Culinary volume 2
A Goldy Schultz Culinary Mystery volume 2
Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery
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“A classic whodunit . . . the perfect book for food lovers.”—New York Daily News
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent...
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent...
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As Lord Peter Wimsey enjoys his time in Corsica, he's brought back to reality when all of the headlines claim that his brother, Gerald, has been arrested for murder. Gerald, who had been on a hunting trip at the family's estate in Yorkshire with his brother-in-law, had gotten into a fight with the man about his sordid past. Hours later, the man is dead, and Gerald is the main suspect. As Gerald maintains his innocence, it's up to Wimsey to figure...
12) The moonstone
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Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one...
13) The Canary Caper
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 3
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c1998
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Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.
14) The golden calf
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Three men have been shot in one of Gteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods, sending Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues on a goose chase through a tony world of expensive cars and fancy homes. All three victims seem to be tied to one person, the glamorous dot-com darling Sanna Kaegler-Ceder, but no matter which strategy Irene adopts-good cop or bad cop-Sanna is not speaking, even when her own life seems to be at stake.
15) Blue Bay mystery
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540L
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"What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a deserted island? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--
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Alex Delaware novels volume 23
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The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something ""real dead ... buried in your marsh."" The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city's under siege to an insidious killer.
17) Run away
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""You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark...
18) The secret panel
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 25
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c1974
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A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 35
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Nancy Drew, the teen detective, and her friend, Ned Nickerson, find a pirate chest filled with gold coins in the hold of an old showboat.
20) Hot six
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 6
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sometimes lover, Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli, team up to find the killer of the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos, but Stephanie has mixed feelings about her search when she learns that Ranger, her fellow bounty hunter and mentor, is the main suspect.
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