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A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast-and died young. But her final scam-embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund-is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House-the place where Meredith engineered her final deception...
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A December 2022 Once Upon a Book Club Pick
"You'll get nothing done until you've reached the end of this excellent book." -Lisa Regan, USA Today and WSJ bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series
"[A] riveting tale . . ." -Library Journal
She wanted the truth. She should have known better.
When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter's world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
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Bee is the only one unconvinced by the police report that declared her sister's death a suicide and moves into her apartment with the hope of piecing together the clues that will reveal the killer only to discover her sister had a stalker and was having an affair with a married man who got her pregnant.
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N.A. Talese
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c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 30
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A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.
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Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe's world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate's past, things she shouldn't know, forcing Kate to face the murky evidence surrounding her own sister's murder 16 years before, bringing Kate face to face with her deepest fear.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Seven-year-old Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the murderer of her sister. After twenty-two years in prison he returns, still denying his guilt, to their home town intent on proving his innocence and Ellie follows, equally intent on proving his guilt.
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He knows all about women, or so he thought... Dexter Yates leads a charmed existence in London, with money, looks, and girlfriends galore. Life's fantastic until Dex's sister dies and his world changes overnight. Astonishing everyone, including himself, Dex leaves the city behind, takes charge of his eight-month-old niece Delphi, moves to a beautiful Cotswolds village, and sets about working on his parenting skills. His neighbors, including cartoonist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
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Little, Brown and Company
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[2021]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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Emilia, a witch in the Kingdom of Italy, travels to Hell to uncover her twin sister's murderer while combating her growing affections for the Prince of Wrath.
Emilia sold her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, and now she is traveling to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath. There she is introduced to a seductive world of vice. The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in...
15) Surviving Haley
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Pelican Book Group
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[2015]
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Lauren Werthman struggles with guilt and depression. Even moving to another state and into a new home doesn't help her overcome the life-altering aftermath of losing her sister. Memories of the tragic accident reverberate through her life as her family tries to cope, but Lauren's life spirals out of control. Her mother criticizes her choices every day, her father continues to work later and later, and people at her new school seem to know the family...
16) Black Amber
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Open Road Media Romance
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[2017]
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English
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A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times --bestselling "queen of the American gothics" (The New York Times). Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on the Bosporus strait in Istanbul for an enviable arrangement. She's come to assist celebrated artist Miles Radburn with his new book on the history of Turkish art. Everything...
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Thorndike Press
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2023.
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English
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead.
1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike looks back on the ten years since the murder of his younger sister Bliss, a rising figure skater whose unsolved death created a media circus that destroyed his parents' marriage and cast suspicion on him, keeping him from finding any sense of normalcy in his life.
19) Don't let go
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[2017]
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"Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks--and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though he...
20) The Deception
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HQN Books
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[2019]
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English
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""Fans of romantic suspense won't be able to put this book down until the final page is turned."- Publishers Weekly on The Deception When missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go... After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief...
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