Goldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLJohnston, Tim
Summary: "Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHPatterson, James
Summary: In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2024
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Summary: Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new 'emancipation' bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDErdrich, Louise
Summary: It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Brother detectives Frank and Joe return to dangerous Black Bear Mountain to help locate a scientist gone missing from a remote research station.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXSpencer-Fleming, Julia.
Summary: Episcopalian priest Clare Fergusson and married police chief Russ Van Alstyne have more to contend with than their mutual attraction when they investigate the strange disappearance of a woman in their small upstate New York town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEPatterson, James
Summary: "A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015
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Summary: "On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs. Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SPEBuxbaum, Julie
Summary: When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she never imagines she'll end up in Area 51, a top-secret military base. Sky feels like she's landed in a whole new world, even though she hasn't left the planet. Because guess what? Area 51 is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But something even stranger is happening in Area 51--aliens are going missing. Where could they be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: "A quirky picture book in the spirit of Monty Python about two bumbling knights who keep finding objects in a stove (a sword, a shield, a helmet) ... objects that ominously belong to their missing friend Harold"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DORCarson, Scott
Summary: For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books / Atria 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECritchley, Emily
Summary: ""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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Summary: With just a few weeks until the wedding, Aunt Sophie's fiancé, Henry, has gone missing in the jungle. It's up to Olivia and her friends to save him. But the jungle is a dangerous place, and there's no telling what they might encounter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When the owner of the Daily Rat newspaper thinks Thea Stilton, who has vanished without a trace, is responsible for a recent string of robberies in New Mouse City, Geronimo must employ his "famouse" investigative skills to find Thea - and the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIRoss, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)
Summary: "In the stunning conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling Elements of Cadence duology that began with A River Enchanted, A Fire Endless finds the tenuous balance between the human and faery realm threatened by Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, whose defeat may require Jack, Adaira, Torin, and Sidra to pay the ultimate price. East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSHertz, Kellen
Summary: With her recording contract signed, Tenney is set up to make an album, however when her songwriting accomplice and drummer Logan abruptly vanishes, Tenney marvels in the event that she might want to go solo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HERContos, Andrea
Summary: Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they haven't been friends since the party last month. The night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does: Garrett left that party with Nora. Then Sophie starts receiving messages from someone who claims to be Garrett, promising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONOlder, Malka
Summary: "'Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph'--Charlie Jane Anders. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OLDŠardická, Kateřina
Summary: "This young adult mystery horror takes us to a remote borderline village in an intentionally unspecified place and time where people still live by their own rules and still believe in old gods. Twelve years ago, four children suddenly disappeared without trace. Now during the winter solstice, three of them returned out of nowhere as teenagers with no memory of what happened to them. Astrid, Tom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albatros 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SARColfer, Eoin
Summary: Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023