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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They're driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone, vanished. That, at least, is the story Finn told to the police. But it is not the whole story. Ten years later Finn is engaged to Layla's sister, Ellen. Their shared grief drew them close. Still, there's something about Ellen that...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There's the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don't want to do, and the thing we've been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed. After five years of searching for the secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only...
5) Remarkables
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
13) Afterwards
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
14) Faithful
Author
Language
English
Description
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion--from dark suffering to true happiness--a moving portrait...
16) Without sanction
Author
Series
Matt Drake novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After surviving a clandestine operation that went tragically wrong, Matt Drake escaped Syria with his life, but little else. Now, to save the life of another, he must return to Syria and confront his biggest failure in a debut thriller Lee Child calls "sensationally good." Defense Intelligence Agency operative Matt Drake broke a promise. A promise that cost three people their lives and crippled his best friend. Three months later, he's paralyzed...
17) Safe house
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Charlie Miller serves prison time for providing her serial killer ex-boyfriend, Lee Fisher, a false alibi, she flees to a Cornish village, where, with a new name and appearance, she hopes to hide from her past. Charlie plans to use the plastering and woodwork courses she took in prison to renovate a crumbling cottage, but maintaining a low profile is difficult. She becomes friends with four local women and her octogenarian neighbor, and despite...
19) The confession
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Assistant DA Holt Douglas makes his living exposing lies, getting a confession, and sending criminals to jail in Ashley County, Georgia. But lurking in his past is a dark secret that could end his career and his romantic relationship. When he re-opens a cold case involving the alleged suicide of the town's wealthiest businessman, he suspects murder. Yet his own guilt threatens to destroy him and the cause of justice.
20) Lost in the sun
Author
Language
English
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
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