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"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more...
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"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
24) Honor thyself
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c2008
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In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a second...
25) Hide and seek
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Sisterhood series volume 8
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Mitch Riley, the ruthless assistant director of the FBI, intends to frames Cornelia "Nellie" Easter, the judge who helped the Sisterhood evade prison, and their lawyer, Lizzie Fox, in order to save his own career. He's created a special task force to hunt the Sisters down. Mitch has the entire FBI behind him, but he's about to discover that he's no match for seven formidable women with an unbreakable bond and a wickedly cunning plan to bring the fight...
26) Dark places
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For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
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In this book, domestic violence expert Lundy Bancroft uses his perspective as a therapist for abusive and controlling men to help women, their children, and other family members who have been touched by abuse understand why abusers behave the way they do and what can be done about it. Bancroft teaches women how to survive and improve an abusive relationship; how to determine how dangerous an abuser is and when it is impossible to rectify a situation;...
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"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling...
30) Silks
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Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.
32) The lies we told
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Maya, having been convinced by her sister Rebecca and husband Adam to help with a relief effort after a devastating hurricane in North Carolina, is the victim of a helicopter crash, and while she struggles to stay alive in the wilderness, Rebecca and Adam, believing Maya is dead, find comfort in the arms of one another.
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"In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down the mysterious French psychic at the center of an international scam targeting the elderly and emotionally vulnerable, resulting in an expose of one of the longest running cons in history. While investigating financial crimes for CNN Money, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken were intrigued by reports that elderly Americans were giving away thousands of dollars...
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Thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell embarks on an emotional journey into the past when she is the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and in the haze of recovery, believes she is visited by her uncle, the Catholic priest who raised her following the deaths of her parents, and who she had been told died shortly after she was removed from his care at the age of nine following a housekeeper's charge of sexual abuse.
36) All night long
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Irene Stenson's brief friendship with the privileged Pamela Webb ended when Irene left town after her parents' murder-suicide rocked the town, but when Pamela summons Irene back with a cryptic message, Irene returns to find Pamela dead and a decades-old scandal resurfacing.
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Ryan James, a former minor-league baseball player turned sports radio host, receives an anonymous tip about the unsolved hit-and-run accident that killed his wife three years prior live on the air, but the information points to a powerful New England family, and puts Ryan, his wife's brother "Babes," and the case's prosecutor in danger.
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Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty-seven-year-old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discovers a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on life around Cheverell Manor.
39) Heat lightning
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Upon the discovery of the second body, shot and left near a veterans' memorial with a lemon stuck in it's mouth, Virgil Flowers works to uncover who he believes to be a serial killer, while also trying to detect any possible link to the bodies.
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©2007
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Containing accounts of ten classic murders and two inexplicable disappearances, Vintage Vermont Villainies is a veritable "best of the best" of Vermont homicides occurring between 1874 and 1957. Bellamy's catalog of miscreants includes Mary Rogers, whose seduction of two brothers paved the way to eliminating her inconvenient husband; and John Winters, whose date with the electric chair enlisted the sympathies of Clarence Darrow.
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