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Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.......
2) Dark light
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Tabloid reporter Sierra McIntyre wants a scoop when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild boss John Fontana about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters. She doesn’t want to trust the physically and psychically powerful man, but her intuition—and her dust bunny companion—give her the green light. To uncover the conspiracy within his own organization, Fontana proposes…marriage. And though it’s purely a business arrangement,...
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Allan Quatermain series volume 1
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Allan Quatermain relates the events of his safari into the interior of South Africa in search of the legendary lost treasure mines of King Solomon.
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"Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored" --
6) Daisy chain
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The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control - Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter's demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis. In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a...
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"Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted...
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In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which...
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 53
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It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel. The stage is set for her to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht in the heart of the city. But halfway through her performance, masked men drag Tamar off the stage and into a waiting speedboat, while the partygoers look on helplessly.
Detective Steve Carella is just showing up for the graveyard...
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
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Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexico border, Sheriff Hack Holland and his deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling.
14) Safe and sound
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Sisterhood series volume 29
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Ben Ryan is eight-years-old, and increasingly subjected to danger by his greedy stepfather, who is determined to get his hands on Ben's trust fund. Ben is also the grandson of a former client of the Sisterhood. Isabelle is determined to protect the boy, and calls in the Sisterhood. Meanwhile, Eleanor has vanished on a mission of her town, trying to right an old wrong. With two wrongs to right, the Sisterhood is going to get creative.... -- adapted...
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Addison's fiancé is a wonderful man, but she is not looking forward to the wedding: she doesn't know who she really is. Found bleeding next to a New Jersey highway a few years ago, her physical wounds healed but she doesn't know her real name-- or how she ended up injured on the side of the road. Meanwhile, in the Boston suburbs, Julian tries to figure out what happened to his wife, Cassandra, who disappeared without a trace two years ago. She would...
16) The axe factor
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Missing her former life after moving to rural Southern Thailand, Jimm Juree catches the eye of a successful European writer against a backdrop of a serial murder case, an imminent major storm and her ex-cop grandfather's disapproval.
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Autumn, 1948: Iris Digby, her American diplomat husband Sasha, and their two children vanish from London. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West's most vital secrets? Four years later Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from Iris, the twin sister she hasn't seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940. Now Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as...
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For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. Then she meets the newest member of the team: former detective John Rebus, who has never shied away from lost causes. Two more women have gone missing from the same road, and he can sense a connection.
20) Strip Jack
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Inspector Rebus investigates the disappearance of a member of Parliament's wife after her husband was caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel.
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