Caine, Rachel
Summary: They're hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen's life is good-two children approaching adulthood, a committed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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Summary: "When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY HOABestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BESReina, Miquel
Summary: "Harold y Mary Rose Grapes son un matrimonio que, tras la trágica muerte de su hijo, dejó a un lado sus sueños de juventud y se resignó a vivir en una isla remota, alejados de todo. Sin embargo, el destino les vuelve a poner a prueba: deben abandonar su hogar de una manera que nunca habrían imaginado, por un problema de delimitación de costas. La noche antes de ser desahuciados, mientras...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Espasa 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC REIHrab, Naseem
Summary: After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HRACarter, Kern
Summary: "Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they've created a peaceful life. That peace ends suddenly when her mother dies. Her mother's passing also reopens up the door to her mother's side of the family, including her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CARHerbert, Julián
Summary: As he sits by his dying mother, a son immerses himself in his memories of his childhood and youth while he investigates the complex relationship with his mother, his own children and his country, Mexico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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Summary: "After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction North 2019Hawley, Noah
Summary: "The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: "A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PowersBrennan, Allison
Summary: "US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case, and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BREJohncock, Benjamin
Summary: "Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force in the post-World War II era and a young husband and father, but when his family is faced with a sudden inexplicable tragedy, his instincts as a father and a pilot are put to test as the family experiences both fear and hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: "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 wind-swept 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2023
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Summary: "They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her town's swimming pool. Almost without her realizing it, her life has shuddered to a halt. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2019
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Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINStraub, Peter
Summary: Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter and Timothy receives communications from dead people he had known in his youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRRedfearn, Suzanne
Summary: After losing one of her children, Marie Egide relocates her family to New Hampshire to heal. But her plans are thwarted by a local war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" living in a cabin on the property. The two women clash, and battle lines are drawn within Marie's family and the town as each side fights for what they believe is right, the tension rising until it reaches its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2024
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Summary: A bright June day. A split-second distraction. A family forever changed. Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart, Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in a single turn of fate, that entire world comes crashing down and everything that she thought she knew changes. Maura must learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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Summary: A U.S. Air Force test pilot passes up the chance to become an astronaut after his wife gets pregnant against all odds, and as fatherhood consumes him, a sudden tragedy puts his instincts as a father and as a pilot to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVRobards, Karen.
Summary: Olivia "Livvy" Archer Morrison returns with her little girl to her childhood home on a northern Louisiana plantation only to be tortured by nightmares of her mother's violent death and the uneasy feeling that they are somehow connected to multiple murders committed 20 years ago by a serial killer who preys on young girls. Only her stepcousin Seth Archer, a scion of the Archer clan who played...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBErdrich, Louise
Summary: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016