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1. The vanishing half

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
Language:
English
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3.8 stars
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...

2. La mitad evanescente

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
Pub. Date:
2021
Edition:
Primera edición, Marzo de 2021
Language:
Spanish
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5 stars
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Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también podrían escapar de su sangre. Años después y ante...

3. The berry pickers: a novel

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Author:
Peters, Amanda
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...

4. Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens

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English
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4.4 stars
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Luke Skywalker has vanished, and both the Resistance and the sinister First Order are searching for him. Crack pilot Poe Dameron obtains a clue to his whereabouts, but when everything goes wrong, a droid called BB-8 becomes the centre of the search, along with scavenger Rey and stormtrooper deserter FN-2187, who have found the droid. "Greatest performance of the year."--Entertainment Weekly. "The Force Awakens isn't just one the finest movies of...

5. Paradise Valley

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Author:
Box, C. J.
NoveList Series:
Cassie Dewell novels volume 3.
Series:
Cassie Dewell novels volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota, sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by ready to close the net are half a dozen undercover officers,...

6. Vermilion drift: a novel

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Author:
Krueger, William Kent
NoveList Series:
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 10.
Series:
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 10
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Assigned to protect security at a mine where protestors are trying to prevent the storage of nuclear waste, Cork O'Connor discovers the bodies of five long-missing people and a recently murdered sixth victim who was killed with Cork's own gun.

7. Squeeze me: a novel

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Author:
Hiaasen, Carl
Series:
Skink
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron - who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES - has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery...

8. Close to home

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Author:
Jackson, Lisa
Series:
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"[A]n atmospheric and riveting novel of suspense that uncovers the horrifying secrets buried within a ramshackle house. . . Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the rundown property on the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia River. As soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah, too, is beset by uneasy memories--of her...

9. Less than a treason

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Author:
Stabenow, Dana
NoveList Series:
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21.
Series:
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Lake County Adult Fiction
FIC STA
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Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine--and she needs to be, to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. And throw their worst the wilds have: Kate and Mutt have both been shot Two thousand people...

10. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Scholastic classics
First Avenue classics
Greenwich House classics library
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Considered an American classic, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain is a bold coming of age story about a clever school boy who loves to make trouble and goes in search for it much too often. In this boisterous tale, Tom Sawyer finds forever friendships, new love, and a tragic secret that leads him into even more trouble than he could ever imagine for himself. Though it was Twain's first novel written by himself, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer's'...

11. Thick as thieves

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Author:
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who vanished twenty years ago following his involvement in a heist gone wrong, returns to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake to finally get answers to the questions that torment her about his disappearance, but little does she know, two of her father's co-conspirators--a war hero and a corrupt district attorney--are watching her every move.

12. Down the great unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon

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Author:
Dolnick, Edward, 1952-
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Lake County Non Fiction
917.91 DOL
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On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous. The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived. Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down...

13. The Secrets We Buried

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Author:
Day, Becca
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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'Oh. My. Gosh. I was NOT expecting that!!! I binged this book in a day and a half' Reader review, 5 stars
'THIS BOOK!!!! So many twists and turns and an ending that I just did not see coming!' Reader review, 5 stars
The perfect neighbourhood. The perfect friends. The perfect murder.
When Frankie moved into her new home, it was a dream come true. Living on one of the most exclusive streets in the country, where...

14. The glass hotel

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Author:
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--

15. The sanatorium: a novel

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Author:
Pearse, Sarah
NoveList Series:
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1.
Series:
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half- hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...

16. Paris by the book: a novel

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Author:
Callanan, Liam
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript Robert had been writing without her knowledge ... and that he had set in Paris. Mother and daughters follow the path of the manuscript to a small,...

17. Rise of the jumbies

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Author:
Baptiste, Tracey
NoveList Series:
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2.
Series:
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinne when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.

18. Widowmaker

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Author:
Doiron, Paul
NoveList Series:
Mike Bowditch novels volume 7.
Series:
Mike Bowditch novels volume 7
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past ... She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam Langstrom is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's...

19. White smoke

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Author:
Jackson, Tiffany D.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Points: 12
Language:
English
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Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting Marigold, but a move with her newly blended family from their California beach town to the Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation...

20. The mothers: a novel

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...

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