Wallace, Rich
Summary: When Stu gets lost in the woods just as night closes in, he know he should just sit still and wait for morning because there is a flooded quarry nearby--but when he hears a boy calling for help he follows the sound, ignoring the dog that is trying to steer him in the opposite direction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WALSummary: Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DROKeating, Kevin P.
Summary: "When Emily Ryan is found drowned in the family pool, pumped full of barbiturates and alcohol, a series of events with cataclysmic consequences ensues. Emily's lover ... finds himself responsible for her twin daughters, whose piercing stares fill him with the guilt and anguish he so desperately tries to hide from his wife. A low-level criminal named The Gonk takes over the cottage of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEAOstertag, Molly
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEAnderson, Jake
Summary: "A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon--and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.'s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 ANDLacelle, Pascale
Summary: Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LACVerghese, Abraham
Summary: From the New York Times--bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEVerghese, Abraham
Summary: Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this novel is set in Kerala, on India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning, and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLARossiter, Nan Parson.
Summary: The close-knit Quinn siblings enjoyed the kind of idyllic childhood that seems made for greeting cards, spending each summer at Whit's End, the family's home on Cape Cod. Then comes the summer of 1964, warm and lush after a rainy spring -- perfect firefly weather. Sisters Birdie, Remy, Sailor, Piper, and their brother, Easton, delight in catching the insects in mason jars to make blinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub Corp 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROSSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHWood, Lana
Summary: In this true crime memoir, Lana Wood offers a no-holds-barred account of the life and death of her sister, Natalie Wood, including exclusive new information from people directly involved in the investigation. Clearing up the myths and misconceptions behind her sister's death, the legendary Hollywood actress reveals the secrets she's been holding onto for decades, and in doing so, sets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 WOOAndrews, Donna
Summary: "Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers' vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member announces to all that a woman has jumped overboard,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ANDBailey, Martine
Summary: During the midsummer of 1752, following a desperate summons from her mother, Tabitha Hart departs London for her home village of Netherlea - only to discover that her mother has drowned. Determined to discover the truth about the Widow Hart's death, Tabitha consults her almanack and uncovers a series of cryptic notes describing her mother's terror of someone she names only as 'D'. Teaming up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bailey 2019Barry, Brunonia.
Summary: A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARQuick, Amanda
Summary: When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quick 2017Reilly, Meg Little
Summary: "Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRendell, Ruth
Summary: Ismay, Heather and their mother still live in the house where her stepfather drowned in the bathtub. They don't discuss his death or the changes made to the house because of it, but secrets hang in the air and truth emerges.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M RENSummary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: "After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool.The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar? Kerry's older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clark 2018Copies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CLAFerris, Monica.
Summary: "Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punchneedle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFowler, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005