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From the internationally acclaimed author of The White Bone and The Romantic, a haunting and suspenseful novel of abduction and obsessive love
Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meet her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a video store by day and a piano bar by night, is not always around to shield her daughter from the attention-both benign and sinister-that her beauty draws. Attention...
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In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore. Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar...
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"In her gripping and skillful debut, Gilly Macmillan weaves a taut psychological thriller as she explores a mother's search for her eight-year-old son, missing after running ahead on an ordinary walk in the park on an ordinary Sunday"--From the publisher's web site.
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Foggy Moskowitz novels volume 1
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It's 1974. Foggy Moskowitz, once a Jewish car thief on the run from the Brooklyn authorities, is now in Florida working for Child Protective Services. For personal reasons. An unlikely but tenacious child protection officer, he's investigating the case of a missing infant taken from the hospital by her addict mother. But the case takes several unexpected turns-including a vision quest-as Foggy journeys from seedy Fry's Bay to Indian Seminole swampland....
5) Endangered
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Wildlife biologist and writer Summer Westin teams up with FBI Special Agent Chase Perez when a young boy goes missing and the cougars she helped rehabilitate and release are blamed for the boy's disappearance.
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A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.
Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers.
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without...
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Naomi Cottle novels volume 2
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"A heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel by the amazing Rene Denfeld." -Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi-the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children-returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning up dead.
From the highly praised...
8) Torn apart
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Second in the Storm Front series from the New York Times–bestselling author of Blown Away. "Vivid, gripping . . . This thriller keeps the pages turning." -Library Journal
The twister that touches down in Bordelaise, Louisiana, not only destroys the calm of a summer Sunday, it pierces the soul of Katie Earle, whose young son Bobby goes missing . . . and it wasn't the storm that took him.
Katie's first thought is that her estranged husband,...
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"When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her eight-year-old son, Ethan, is missing from the cabin where he'd been on an overnight class trip. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground, but she's too late; the authorities have lost Ethan's trail in the mountain forest. Another mother from the school, Stef Huntington, seems like she has it all: money, prominence in the community, a popular...
10) Last girl gone
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This pulse-pounding series debut is the next obsession for fans of Julia Keller and David Bell, and readers of unflinching thrillers.
Sometimes, the journey home is the most harrowing. And it's every parent's worst nightmare.**Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from the Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job...
11) Kingdom of souls
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Kingdom of souls volume 1
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Publisher Annotation: Born into a family of powerful witch doctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There?s only one thing Arrah hasn?t tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom?s children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. She uncovers something...
12) A taste for red
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When some of her classmates disappear, sixth-grader Svetlana, along with her new friends go in search of the missing students using her newfound ability as an Olfactive, one who has heightened smell, hearing, and the ability to detect vampires.
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Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 4
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"Sophie Mouse's brother, Winston, wants to help her build a fort in the woods, but Sophie Mouse tells him he should go home because he's too little. When she realizes that she could use his help, he's nowhere to be found!"
15) Finding Jake
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"A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob"--
16) Abducted
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After solving the mayor's murder and exposing high-level corruption in Las Playas, Carly Edwards is happy to be back on patrol with her partner, Joe, putting bad guys behind bars. But then everything starts going wrong. Her ex-husband, Nick, begins pulling away just as they were starting to get close again. Joe's wife lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and their baby is kidnapped. As Carly chases down every lead, her newfound faith is...
17) Beyond gone
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Return Specialist Simon Fisk is about to go on his most dangerous mission: rescuing the granddaughter of the US Secretary of State from terrorists.
Simon Fisk, a specialist in recovering abducted children, is on a routine case in Cape Town when he suddenly finds the body of the suspect he has been following. Believing he is being framed for murder, he runs and soon discovers the job was merely a ruse to lure him to the continent.
There, Simon will...
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Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal, until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
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Publisher Annotation: When Nico Morris?s older sister mysteriously disappears, her parents, family, and friends are devastated. But Nico can never admit what she herself feels: relief at finally being free of Sarah?s daily cruelties. Then, four years later, after dozens of false leads, Sarah is found. But this girl is much changed from the one Nico knew. She?s thin and drawn, when Sarah had been golden and athletic; timid and unsure, instead of brash...
20) Scared to death
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Live to tell thrillers volume 2
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Elsa Cavalon-petrified that the nightmare from fifteen years earlier is beginning all over again . . .Marin Quinn-hiding with her daughters in their concrete fortress, her storybook marriage over . . .Perfect strangers whose once-perfect lives were cruelly shattered, they're bound by a long-lost child, a fragile strand of newfound maternal hope-and mutual loneliness. Yet Elsa and Marin are never truly alone. Someone is always nearby, watching them...
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