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List created by kathyk on Jan 1, 2023
List Votes: 1 Books: 115 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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The Blood of Emmett Till (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfictio...
Draws on previously untapped firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement. By the award-winning author of Blood Done Sign My Name. (United States history).

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty?even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

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Weighed in the Balance (William Monk, Bk 7) (Large Print) by Anne Perry
When Countess Zorah Rostova sweeps into the office of London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone and asks him to defend her against a serious charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, from what he learns of the case, a defense of the countess can only earn him...  more

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The House Next Door by James Patterson
Danger lurks in plain sight with a beguiling neighbor, a suspect's wife, and a mysterious message from space in three electrifying thrillers from the World's Bestselling Writer, James Patterson. The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when...  more

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What Happened to the Bennetts (Large Print) by Lisa Scottoline
Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law…and justice. Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field...  more

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Lying with Strangers (Large Print) by James Grippando
Beautiful doctor Peyton Shields seems to have it all, but her world is shaken after a late-night car accident nearly kills her. She thinks it was intentional, but no one, not even her husband, believes her. Now with her marriage being tested, she confronts a stalker who will stop at nothing to...  more

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Derailed (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) by James Siegel
For Charles Schine, it began as a quiet, ordinary day with a simple commute to work...until he meets the seductive, mysterious Lucinda Harris--an encounter that will irrevocably wreck his life. From multitalented writer James Siegel comes a highly charged, suspenseful tale of murder,...  more

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Scared to Death: A gripping British detective murder mystery (Detective Kay Hunter (l...
"If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully." When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong.  But Detective Kay Hunter isn't convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the...  more

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The Boy (Broussard and Fourcade, Bk 2) (Large Print) by Tami Hoag
A panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help... 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...  more

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The Couple on Cedar Close (Detective Dan Riley, Bk 2) (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by ...
One sunny August afternoon, the residents of Cedar Close throw their annual summer barbecue. Children play in the cherry-tree lined street, tables are laden with food, and the wine is flowing. For Laurie Mills, it’s her first time meeting the neighbours. And it’s the first time she...  more

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The Black Country (Murder Squad, Bk 2) (Large Print) by Alex Grecian
The British Midlands. It’s called the “Black Country” for a reason. Bad things happen there. When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village -- and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest -- the local constable sends for help...  more

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Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America by Jeff Young
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Closer (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by K. L. Slater & Lucy Price-Lewis (Narrator)
I know my daughter better than I know myself and if there’s one thing I know for sure at this moment: it's that Maisie is not ok. My ex-husband Shaun and I are still friends. We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie. But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne and...  more

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Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The family thought the little house they had made in Elmet, Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods while their father built things and hunted. Sometimes he disappeared to do secret, brutal work for money. Narrated by Daniel...  more

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The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan
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Three Days Missing (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) by Kimberly Belle
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The Sun Down Motel (Large Print) by Simone St. James
Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why. Upstate New York, 1982:  Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New...  more

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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy - ?Are you happy with your life??   Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.   Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney,...  more

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The Roommate (Cormac Reilly) by Dervla McTiernan
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Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case by Jim ...
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The Secret by K. L. Slater
You turn your back for a minute. And now your son is in terrible danger … Louise is struggling to cope.  As a busy working mum, she often has to leave her eight-year-old son Archie at her sister Alice’s flat. Alice and Louise used to be...  more

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Blink (Audio MP3-CD) (Unabridged) by K. L. Slater & Lucy Price-Lewis (Narrator)
Three years ago Toni's five-year-old daughter, Evie, disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace. But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story...  more

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The Silent Ones (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by K. L. Slater & Lucy Price-Lewis (N...
This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder. When ten-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy’s mother Juliet cannot believe it. How could her...  more

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The Survivors by Jane Harper
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called...  more

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Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the...  more

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A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her...  more

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Justice Deferred by Len Williams
Based on the bizarre events surrounding the disappearance of the author's own son, this unforgettable page-turner will take readers on a wild ride they won't soon forget... A small-time thief with three felony convictions, Billy Ray Billings finds himself behind bars for life when overzealous...  more

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The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
Some doors are locked for a reason... While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars,...  more

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If I Should Die (Joseph Stark 1) by Matthew Frank
If I Should Die is the astounding debut from British author Matthew Frank. When a homeless man walks into Greenwich police station and confesses a killing, it should be the admission that cracks open a murder enquiry. Instead, he stumbles out on to the street and collapses, bleeding from a stab...  more

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Last Seen Alive: A Novel by Claire Douglas
One woman is trapped in the death-grip of the past?and every one of its dark secrets?in this riveting novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of The Sisters and Local Girl Missing. She can run?As much as Libby Hall needs a vacation, she?s never considered taking one until...  more

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The Other Wife by Claire McGowan
She?s a total stranger. But she knows who you are?Suzi did a bad thing. She?s paying for it now, pregnant, scared, and living in an isolated cottage with her jealous husband, Nick.When Nora moves into the only house nearby, Suzi is delighted to have a friend. So much so that she?s almost tempted...  more

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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in ...
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City...  more

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The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while...  more

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The Deep Dark Descending (Detective Max Rupert, Bk 4) by Allen Eskens
Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife’s death, even when he believed that a reckless hit-and-run driver was to blame. Haunted by memories both beautiful and painful, he is plagued by feelings of unfinished business. When Max learns that, in fact, Jenni was murdered,...  more

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Where Monsters Dwell (aka Where Evil Lies) (Odd Singsaker, Bk 1) by Jorgen Brekke &am...
A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked...  more

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The Last Thing to Burn: A Novel by Will Dean
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The Perfect Alibi (Robin Lockwood, Bk 2) by Phillip Margolin
A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that...  more

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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, Bk 5) by C .J. Sansom
It was summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the...  more

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Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, Bk 6) by C. J. Sansom
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the...  more

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Tombland (The Shardlake series) by C. J. Sansom
Tombland is the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series. Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector. The...  more

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Find You First by Linwood Barclay
Tech millionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of -- except time. He has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. For Miles, this means taking a...  more

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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal,...  more

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So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to...  more

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Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, Bk 1) by Kia Abdullah
From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth? Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations...  more

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If She Wakes by Michael Koryta
Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King). Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a...  more

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The Ridge by Michael Koryta
In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. One day its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history. For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble,...  more

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Heat Wave : A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a...  more

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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white...  more

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The Cuts That Cure by Arthur Herbert
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The Drop by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom...  more

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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the...  more

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I Found You by Lisa Jewell
In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has...  more

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How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, How Not to Die Alone is the bighearted debut novel we all need, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it's a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose. Andrew's been feeling...  more

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Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Novel by David R. Dow
A thrillingly suspenseful debut novel, and a fierce howl of rage that questions the true meaning of justice. Rafael Zhettah relishes the simplicity and freedom of his life. He is the owner and head chef of a promising Houston restaurant. A pilot with open access to the boundless Texas horizon....  more

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism,...  more

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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier,...  more

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The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural...  more

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Her Last Goodbye by Rick Mofina
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Arrowood: A Novel by Laura McHugh
?This robust, old-fashioned gothic mystery has everything you?re looking for: a creepy old house, a tenant with a secret history, and even a few ghosts. Laura McHugh?s novel sits at the intersection of memory and history, astutely asking whether we carry the past or it carries us.??Jodi...  more

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The Skeleton Man (Journalist Philip Dryden) by Jim Kelly
For seventeen years, the English hamlet of Jude’s Ferry has lain abandoned, used only for army training exercises. Before then, the isolated, thousand-year-old community was famous for one thing---having never recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the army on...  more

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The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner  – The bridesmaid – The body On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The...  more

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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member....  more

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The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
Diving into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and to rewrite the future... Two women. Many aliases. Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job....  more

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Doctors from Hell : The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans by Vivien Spit...
A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors.

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Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann
As well as the Hebrew word for Holocaust, "Shoah" is a documentary on the Nazi extermination camps. In its creation, Jewish, Polish and German witnesses were called upon to detail the circumstances. This text presents the actual testimony of those interviewed.

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The Last Mrs. Parrish (Larger Print) by Liv Constantine
Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of...  more

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Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris
A young British couple are driving through France on holiday when they stop for gas. He runs in to pay, she stays in the car. When he returns her car door has been left open, but she’s not inside. No one ever sees her again. Ten years later he’s engaged to be married; he’s...  more

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Love and Other Lies: A Novel by Ben McPherson
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First Born by Will Dean
From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author)...  more

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The Forgotten Ones (Lucy Black, Bk 3) by Brian McGilloway
The body of an elderly man is hauled out of the rushing water of the River Foyle, cold dead. Detective Lucy Black is called in to investigate when it becomes evident that this was not a suicide: the man's body was embalmed before it ever entered the water. Confounded and exhausted, Lucy...  more

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The Stranger's Wife (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by Anna-Lou Weatherley
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The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous...  more

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The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey
Minnesota, 1977: For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw...  more

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Angry Housewives: Eating Bon Bons (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) by Lorna ...
From her sensational sleeper hit Patty Jane’s House of Curl to her heartwarming novel Welcome to the Great Mysterious, Lorna Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere by skillfully balancing hilarity with pathos, and bittersweet insights with heartwarming truths. Now she returns to...  more

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The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I’m working hard to impress them. They think...  more

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Exiles (Aaron Falk, Bk 3) by Jane Harper
Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie's disappearance. One year ago, at...  more

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The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding
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What Have You Done by Matthew Farrell
A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.Family is not what it seems in this raw, edgy thriller that New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline says ?you won?t be able to put down.?When a mutilated body is found hanging in a seedy motel in Philadelphia, forensics specialist Liam...  more

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The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson
A chilling investigation of America?s only alleged case of blood libel, and what it reveals about antisemitism in the United States and Europe.On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, age four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of...  more

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Playing Nice: A Novel by JP Delaney
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The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind. Thirty years later, Jo returns to...  more

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Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard
A riveting novel about how the past never stays in the past from the critically acclaimed author of The Drowning Girls and The Mourning Hours. Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. Megan is a girl from a modest Midwest background, and Lauren is the daughter of a...  more

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The Broken Room by Peter Clines
The new supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Peter Clines You can still owe the dead. Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off...  more

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Behind Closed Doors: A Novel by Susan Lewis
For readers of Jodi Picoult, Heather Gudenkauf, and Elizabeth Flock comes a spellbinding tale of a girl gone missing?and the detective who will risk everything to find her.   Detective Sergeant Andrea Lawrence is reluctant to take this emotionally charged case, but she can?t help herself. In a...  more

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Killing Kate by Alex Lake
A SERIAL KILLER IS STALKING YOUR HOME TOWN. HE HAS A TYPE: ALL HIS VICTIMS LOOK THE SAME. AND THEY ALL LOOK LIKE YOU. Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial killer in her home town – and his victims all look like her. It could, of course,...  more

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Pretty Girls (Larger Print) by Karin Slaughter
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and...  more

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kathyk
The Family Holiday by Shalini Boland
Two families. One house swap. A vacation to die for. The white-washed Italian villa is perfect. I thought it might feel odd, living in a stranger’s house for the summer, but as my husband and children swim in the infinity pool, I start to relax. And then, in the back of a wardrobe, I...  more

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This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
The #1 New York Times Bestseller, now in paperback, with special bonus content!Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun...10:00 a.m.: The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to...  more

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kathyk
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich ...
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl presents personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown --...  more

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kathyk
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine by Brooks Brown & Rob Merrit...
On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew...  more

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kathyk
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
In A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold, for the first time, recounts, based on her recollections, her daily journals, and the difficult and harrowing writings and video recordings her son left behind, the days and months leading up to the tragic shooting at Columbine High School, where 12 students...  more

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kathyk
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley...  more

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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russel...
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who...  more

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kathyk
The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
While camping near Indian Creek, Matt and his best friend, Parker, get up early to see if they can spot a blue heron. Instead, they find the body of a dead man floating in the clear water. Parker is sure that George Evans, the smooth-talking local antiques dealer, must somehow be connected...  more

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kathyk
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael...
Many people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it - but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight did just that when he left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another person for the next...  more

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kathyk
Walking the Bones (Ryan DeMarco, Bk 2) by Randall Silvis
When long-buried secrets come back to the surface... The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been roped into investigating during what is supposed to...  more

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kathyk
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell Tale Heart is a book written by Edgar Allan Poe. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Tell Tale Heart is required reading for various courses and curriculums....  more

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kathyk
The Monkey's Paw (Tale Blazers) by W. W. Jacobs
The White family are delighted when a friend gives them a monkey's paw that will grant them three wishes. They gain a little but at what cost? The paw turns happiness to fear and despair. Collins Soundbites is a revolutionary series of readers for students who are struggling to achieve NC level...  more

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kathyk
The Arrangement (Arrangement, Bk 1) by Kiersten Modglin
The arrangement was just meant to fix their marriage. No one was supposed to get hurt. But when the rules of this open marriage are broken, the consequences are sinister. Ainsley Greenburg is a fixer. It's what she prides herself on. So, when she realizes her...  more

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kathyk
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Two decades after an event that shook the world, a chilling cold case murder is about to make the headlines all over again DNA from a tiny bone fragment has allowed the New York medical examiner's office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. Victoria Ford...  more

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They Called Us Enemy by George Takei & Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott
A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and...  more

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kathyk
The Starving Time (Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary, Bk 2) (My America) by Patricia...
The story of the feisty, determined Lizzie of Pat Hermes' Our Strange New Land continues in this installment with the departure of both Captain John Smith and Lizzie's dear friend, Jessie. Facing new challenges, Lizzie records in her new diary all of the challenges that face the...  more

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kathyk
The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
The play centers on the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association.

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kathyk
The Apartment by S. L. Grey
Mark and Steph have a relatively happy family with their young daughter in sunny Cape Town until one day when armed men in balaclavas break in to their home. Left traumatized but physically unharmed, Mark and Steph are unable to return to normal and live in constant fear. When a friend suggests...  more

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The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad, Bk 6) by Tana French
Being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough,...  more

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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with...  more

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Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker
They called it a “walk away.” The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family. It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to start over. But what really happened to Molly Clarke? The night Molly disappeared began with a storm,...  more

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kathyk
The Great Book of Rock Trivia: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Rock and Ro...
Are you the type of rock fan that isn't satisfied with simply listening to the radio? Sure, you enjoy it, but you want more. Do you look up the lyrics and wonder what they mean or if there is a story behind them? What on earth does ?In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida? mean, anyway? We've got those answers for...  more

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kathyk
The Push by Ashley Audrain
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family -- and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for -- and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet...  more

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The Glass Forest: A Novel by Cynthia Swanson
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s about a deeply troubled family and three women who will reveal its dark truths. In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At...  more

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The Collective (Large Print) by Alison Gaylin
Camille Gardener is a grieving -- and angry -- mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women -- the collective -- Camille is...  more

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas, everyone!“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!” With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in...  more

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The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Yellow fog is swirling through the streets of London, and Sherlock Holmes himself is sitting in a cocaine-induced haze until the arrival of a distressed and beautiful young lady forces the great detective into action. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has...  more

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The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell's Original Masterpiece by Richard Connell
"The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell's best known story and has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.

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The Man in the Red Bandanna by Honor Crowther Fagan
When Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red bandanna, which he always carried with him. On September 11, 2001, Welles Remy Crowther saved numerous people from the upper floors of the World Trade Center South Tower. "The Man in the Red Bandanna" recounts and celebrates his...  more

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Comment added 10/9/23 by kathyk:
The monkey's paw-- reread A+

Comment added 10/7/23 by kathyk:
The tell tale heart-- reread. Still A+

Comment added 9/17/23 by kathyk:
The lottery is a reread. Still a 5 star read.

Comment added 7/16/23 by kathyk:
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Comment added 7/16/23 by kathyk:
The stranger's wife-- audible

Comment added 6/20/23 by kathyk:
Arrowood - audible

Comment added 4/10/23 by kathyk:
White flight-- Audible

Comment added 3/9/23 by kathyk:
The silent ones-- audible

Comment added 3/7/23 by kathyk:
Blink - audible

Comment added 3/6/23 by kathyk:
The Secret-- audible

Comment added 3/5/23 by kathyk:
Sworn to silence-- audible

Comment added 3/1/23 by kathyk:
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Comment added 3/1/23 by kathyk:
The roommate-- audible

Comment added 3/1/23 by kathyk:
Red harvest--- audible

Comment added 2/20/23 by kathyk:
The sisters-- audible

Comment added 2/19/23 by kathyk:
Closer--- audible

Comment added 2/18/23 by kathyk:
Appalachian fall--- audible

Comment added 2/7/23 by kathyk:
The couple on cedar close -- audible

Comment added 1/13/23 by kathyk:
Derailed-- Reread