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Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
2422) Deception: haunting Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Emma's antique-collector parents vanish and her brother's college roommate shows up to become her guardian, he takes her from San Francisco to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper, " which both explains troubling incidents from her past and presents difficult new dilemmas.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
2425) Cogheart
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman always dreamed of adventure. A strong-willed girl, Lily felt trapped in a life of Victorian stuffiness at her prim boarding school. But after her father--a famous inventor--disappears on a routine zeppelin flight, Lily's life gets turned upside down. Now cared for by her guardian, the heartless Madame Verdigris, Lily is quite certain that she's being watched. Mysterious, silver-eyed men are lurking in the shadows, just...
2426) Missing person
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A quiet bookseller learns that his family has been keeping secrets about his uncle, and begins searching for the truth with the help of an online community of armchair detectives dedicated to matching missing-persons cases with unidentified bodies --
2427) Klute
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A private eye searches for a suburban man in New York City. His only lead is the man's relationship with a prostitute.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Singer, actress, and celebrity Bibi Fortunata fled Hollywood Hills and headed for Barcelona two years ago after being arrested for murder--then set free. But when Bibi's daughter comes to private investigators Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they can't resist the temptation to solve the cold case once and for all. Who really killed Bibi's lover? Who would want to frame Bibi? And who is beckoning them from Barcelona?
Author
Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing. The kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams and nightmares often accurately predict the future.
2432) Anarchy: a novel
Author
Series
Advent volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria harcover ed.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an accused murderer disappears from a locked cell on her watch, Corporal "Goose" Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracks the vanished girl through the wilderness of Vancouver Island.
2435) Look for me: a novel
Author
Series
Israeli trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
2436) The merchant of Venus
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients, women who need her desperately, without her father's patronage. She sets out across Europe...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amani is hooked on a mystery -- a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king's sixtieth birthday -- and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Her father has avoided returning...
2440) Just the way you are
Author
Series
Lost Texas hearts volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brutally separated from her younger siblings after her clergy parents were killed in a car crash and posthumously accused of theft, 16-year-old Hope Prescott has neither forgotten nor given up trying to find her family. Now, seven years later, going to college and working at a telephone answering service, she falls for a delightful "butler" and ends up charming and changing the life of a powerful man who is determined enough to help her locate her...
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