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41) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
42) Diver's paradise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After 25 years on the job, Detective Roscoe Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island nestled in the southern Caribbean. But the warm water, palm trees, and sunsets are derailed when his long-time police-buddy and friend back home is murdered. Conklin dusts off a few markers and calls his old department, trolling for information. It's slow going, but no surprise there; after all, it's an active...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
x, 452 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Rayford Steele and Cameron “Buck” Williams find themselves pressed into service for the man they believe could be the Antichrist. Nicolae Carpathia takes over the United Nations, signs a peace treaty with Israel, and begins to lure the nations of earth together to form one global village. As believers band together following the Rapture, their peaceful world is destroyed again when global war erupts.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm
Description
The official novelization of the highly anticipated revamp of the classic horror film Halloween. In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith's Grove State Hospital. For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back...
Author
Series
Omens and shadows volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
47) Coaltown Jesus
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 74 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Praying for help after the sudden death of his brother, Walker is astonished by the appearance of an irreverent Jesus in his bedroom who imparts unexpected strength and comfort while helping him understand some of life's biggest questions.
Author
Series
Curtis Black novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
The Reverend Curtis Black's wife, Charlotte, is angry. Her life has been turned upside down and someone has to pay.
49) Hide away
Author
Series
Rachel Marin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where local detectives see suicide, she sees murder. They resent...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends ... or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to come home for Christmas, but she hesitates to return to the life she's worked so hard...
51) Until I find you
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Soon, Rebecca Gray won't be able to see. Diagnosed in her twenties with a degenerative eye disease, each day her world grows a little darker. She's moved to the suburbs to raise her son, Jackson. In the wake of her husband's death, it should be a quieter, easier way of life. It won't be. The Moment That Changes Everything: When Bec awakes after fainting in the park, she makes promises to start taking better care of herself. When her son begins to...
52) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held indefinitely in a detention facility, awaiting an asylum hearing that may never come, finding it harder every day to hold on to her faith and hope. Emiliano had entered the country illegally, and everywhere he goes, it's clear that he doesn't belong. As the cartel...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"After drinking too much at her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes to find a stranger in her bed. To make matters worse, a phone call brings the devastating news that her friend Angie was murdered some time after they parted ways the night before. Kelly Delaney, who left the party early, is the first of Maggie's friends to face questions from Chicago homicide detective Ron O'Reilly. After taking a closer look at the other women who attended...
54) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Formats
Description
Emiliano and Sara made it across the border. Now, they need to survive in America. Emiliano and his sister Sara have successfully fled organized crime in Mexico, illegally crossing into the United States. But now, Sara is in jail, and Emiliano's reunion with their father in Chicago is more awkward than celebratory. When Emiliano is falsely accused of a crime against a missing local girl, it sets off a tense and dangerous race to find her, before he...
55) Together forever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
421 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 316 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes-two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house-and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It's not the kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows. In town, people are quick to blame Madison's mom. But when Luce's...
59) The companion
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha....
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"After fleeing her hometown three years earlier, Alyssa Harrison never planned to return. Then the Silicon Valley start-up she worked for collapsed and turned her world upside down. She is broke, under FBI investigation, and without a place to go. Having exhausted every option, she comes home to Winsome, Illinois, to regroup then move on as quickly as possible. Yet, as friends and family welcome her back, Alyssa begins to see a place for herself in...
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