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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
2) Open carry
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter is a born tracker. Raised in the swamplands of Florida, he honed his skills in the military, fought in the Middle East, and worked three field positions for Marshal Services. When it comes to tracking someone down -- or taking someone out -- Cutter's the best. But his newest assignment is taking him out of his comfort zone, to southeast Alaska. Cold, dark, uninhabited forests that are often shrouded in fog. And it's the...
3) The stranger
Author
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedström tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny's...
6) NYPD Red 6
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When reality star Erin Easton disappears from her wedding reception leaving behind a blood-spattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle in her dressing room, Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already on-scene as a plus-one, loops in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan to activate Level One mobilization for this public relations nightmare, but after Erin's "proof of life" video makes it to air, every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target...
7) Ocean Beach
Author
Series
Ten Beach Road novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After arriving in Ocean Beach to renovate an old home, Avery Lawford, her interior designer mother, and some friends discover a set of unexpected challenges.
9) Get real
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
John Dortmunder and his crew encounter a television reality show that is pushing the limits of the medium by covering the gang as they plan and execute one of their capers.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Shelby Springfield has spent the last ten years trying to overcome her past. But as a former child star, it's hard to forget a mediocre pop career, a meltdown widely documented by the paparazzi, and a huge public break with her former co-star Lyle Jessup. It's also hard to forget her other co-star and childhood sweetheart, Cameron Riggs -- the one who got away. But when Lyle stirs the pot, getting the two back in the spotlight with a home renovation...
11) Fragment
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before... an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.
Author
Language
English
Description
Merinac, Kansas. Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best friend chicken in the state. The legendary feud between the owners-- the Moores and the Pogociellos-- has caught widow Amanda Moore in the middle. She had worked for her mom at Mimi's before marrying Frank Pogociello and working for Frannie's. When she convinces Food Wars, a reality-TV competition, to cover the feud, Amanda and her sister Mae must...
Author
Series
This is not the Jess show volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After months of living in the outside world, Jess Flynn returns to the reality show she was unknowingly trapped in for most of her life to expose the dark truth about the production company behind the show"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It happened at Serenity's swap meet, right after Brandy Borne and her ever-more-eccentric mother Vivian finished shooting the pilot for their very own TV show, Antiques Sleuths. Brandy just, well, lost her balance and fell...into the helpful arms of an old flame, local tycoon Wesley Sinclair III. But did Brandy's innocent slip lead to the murder of Wesley's wife, Vanessa?"--Jacket.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the urging of her twin teenagers, Tori Moore auditions for the American Bake-o-Rama TV competition. On set, Tori immediately catches the eye of Kendra Campbell, the notoriously ruthless (and terminally single) celebrity chef and Bake-o-Rama judge. Tori and Kendra find it increasingly hard to keep their distance through six slow-burn weeks of cooking challenges and kitchen disasters. For both, the best prize of all might just be love"--
17) Miracle season
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Persephone Pearl Clark has never met a plant that wouldn't bloom or bud for her. But lately, between the accident that left her older brother Levi with an irreversible brain injury and a messy fight with her once-best friend Mya, Persephone is stuck. The only things growing are the lies and secrets she's been keeping to save her family. When she finds Levi's unfinished application submitting their hometown of Coulter, Wisconsin, to a makeover show...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holly and Robert Barron are attractive young real-estate investors and contestants in a competition run by To the Manor Build, the nation's most popular home renovation app. With millions in product endorsements and online followers at stake, they're rehabbing a Vermont home they scored at a bargain price into a chic hilltop estate ideal for entertaining. It's all camera-ready laughs and debates over herringbone tile until Holly and Robert go missing...
19) American idle
Author
Publisher
Making it
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Laurie Moran's professional life is a success. Her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand -- Ryan Nichols -- and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum...
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