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Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"I don't know who you are or why you've come here,' I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. 'But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.' Fourteen years ago, our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don't picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks. I only looked away for a second, and I have never forgiven myself....
542) A Florentine revenge
Author
Publisher
Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On a scorching summer afternoon in the suburbs of Florence, a small girl goes missing at a crowded swimming pool and is never seen alive again. For fifteen years a terrible crime lies unsolved, becoming one of the city's darkest and most shameful secrets, until one bitter winter night another body is found, at another swimming pool, and the case is reopened. Celia Donnelly had just arrived in Florence at the time of the girl's disappearance and can...
543) Silk Hills
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Beth Wills comes to Silk Hills, a small Appalachian town that's seen better days since the mines were abandoned, she expected a bit of culture shock... But not like this! Beth is someone who has a talent for finding people who don't want to be found, and when she's called to Silk Hills by a local titan of industry, she can tell that something's not right. Little does she know... Silk Hills was once booming, but the only reason people tend to...
544) The cattle drive
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1880's, runaway orphans, kidnapping, Medicine Bow, Wyoming"--
"Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder,...
545) Catchpenny: a novel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he's all but squandered his reputation as...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J.M. Barrie's classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan-who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be-to save her daughter's life. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, t h a t Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her......
Author
Publisher
Krac Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The strangled body of a 9-year-old girl is discovered behind a hedgerow bordering her school playground in York, Pennsylvania. The local authorities' only clue lies in a scrap of paper left in her front pocket, with a short phrase printed on it in an unfamiliar language. Jackson Byrne, an FBI agent who specializes in investigating crimes against children, has just completed a book tour promoting his best-seller about solving his most recent high-profile...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision: to make the billboard his new home. Twelve-year-old Miguel is enchanted by his uncle's unusual living arrangement, but the neighborhood is buzzing with gossip, declaring Ramón a madman bringing shame to the community....
Author
Publisher
VRYA, un sello de V&R Editoras
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Sarah desapareció. Su familia está desvastada, excepto Nico, su Hermana, ella, por primera vez, siente paz porque se pudo library de las maldades de Sarah." --
"When Nico Morris's older sister mysteriously disappears, her parents, family, and friends are devastated. But Nico can never admit what she herself feels: relief at finally being free of Sarah's daily cruelties. Then the best and worst thing happens: four years later, after dozens of false...
550) Desaparecida
Author
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Una vida perfecta puede derrumbarse en cuestión de segundos. Charles y Mary forman un matrimonio que encarna la viva imagen del éxito: él es un próspero hombre de negocios que procede de una familia ilustre de políticos estadounidenses y ella, una cirujana brillante de gran renombre. Sin embargo, su vida de ensueño se ve truncada por la trágica muerte de su hijo mayor en un accidente de esquí. Los padres, atenazados por el dolor y la pena,...
Author
Series
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The origin of Erica Slaughter, monster hunter, is revealed in this volume of the Eisner Award-nominated horror series. Erica Slaughter went to hell and back in Archer's Peak, but that may be nothing compared to the events that forged her at the House of Slaughter. What events brought Erica to the House of Slaughter? And what did she have to do to join the Order of St. George? Erica Slaughter's origins are finally revealed in this volume of the Eisner...
552) El otro hijo
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Un psiquiatra con muchas preguntas, un niño que podría encerrar las respuestas y dos madres que tendrán que cuestionarse sus vidas. Janie sabe que con su hijo Noah nada es fácil. El agua le aterroriza y conseguir que se dé un baño es una batalla que Janie apenas tiene fuerzas para librar. Por las noches sufre pesadillas tan espantosas que incluso ella se asusta. Todo el mundo le dice que es una fase pasajera, pero la situación solo parece empeorar....
Author
Series
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Erica Slaughter resurfaces to take on the case of a girl who's seen a new kind of monster, one with terrifying implications. But Erica's broken ties with the House of Slaughter and that can have deadly consequences. The Order of St. George does not forget nor do they forgive. Even as Erica goes on the hunt, she must keep an eye out for the mysterious figure on her trail in order to survive the coming storm"--
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