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Author
Publisher
MIRA
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often...
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After 16 years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long, Jess has moved into Emily's comfortable island home. Life couldn't be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess's care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart. Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. The two couples have known each other since childhood. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are also the best of friends. When they and two other local...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At a truck stop near Las Vegas, fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family's RV, turning their cross-country dream of starting over into a nightmare. Detectives pursue every chilling lead as all eyes fall to the newly blended family with a tragic past. With the clock ticking down on the likelihood that Riley is alive, suspicions run deep. Everyone, from Riley's mom to her stepdad to her stepbrother and her ex-boyfriend, has something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage's stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened...
10) Bring him home
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Where is he? Where’s my beloved child with his father’s blue eyes and a halo of golden curls? My little boy is out there on his own. Please keep him safe, I silently beg, please, please just keep him safe. A completely gripping, beautifully written and totally heartbreaking page-turner, which examines what happens behind closed doors, and the secrets that can shatter a family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In 1975, thirteen-year-old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. Leah Teal, Alvin's only detective, is assigned to the case. After three months, Ruby Mae finally turns up dead beneath a willow. Twelve years later, another little girl goes missing. Then another. Leah, fearful for her own children, is sure these incidents are connected to the one she failed to solve. As Leah's son Abe tells of his mother's battle with small-town bureaucracy...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anchor and investigative journalist for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Jeremy Finley's debut thriller explores what happens to people's lives when our world intersects with the unexplainable. When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"John Docherty's mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she's unlikely to be able to live independently again. For in a box, in the attic, he finds undeniable truth that he had a brother who disappeared when he himself was only a toddler. A brother no one ever mentioned. A brother he knew absolutely nothing about. A discovery that sets John on a journey from which he may never recover. For sometimes in that space...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living in fear of their father, six cursed sisters sneak out to visit Full Moon Fayre, but when Grace, the oldest sister, goes missing, they must battle inner doubts and the legends that have haunted their family to save her.
15) The missing
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire Wilkinson, blames herself. Shes not the only one. There isnt a single member of Billys family that doesnt feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isnt until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface. Claire is sure of two things-that Billy is...
16) Flores cortadas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanól
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Han pasado dos décadas desde que Julia, la hermana mayor de Claire y Lydia, desapareció sin dejar rastro a los 19 años. Tiempo después, ellas dejaron de comunicarse y tomaron caminos opuestos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos se había recuperado del horror y la tristeza de su tragedia compartida: una herida atroz que se reabrió cruelmente al morir asesinado el esposo de Claire. ¿Qué relación podía haber entre ambos hechos?"
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it's all her Oak Hill neighbors can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barnes goes missing on his walk home from kindergarten. Billy's mother, Rachel, blames herself for being at work and letting her only child walk alone. Cassidy, Billy's teenage babysitter, was also late to arrive on the afternoon...
18) Last night
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Language
English
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Description
"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
19) False step
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle happens: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but unharmed, on a hiking trail miles from his wealthy family's mountain home. In a heartbeat, his rescue goes from financially strapped fitness trainer to celebrated hero. The heat of the spotlight may prove too much for Johnny's picture-perfect family, however. His...
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Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of Our Little Secret comes a suspenseful new thriller featuring two estranged sisters desperate to keep their deepest and darkest secret where it belongs-in the past.
Close to my heart you'll be, sisters forever you and me...
Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. She lives in an idyllic resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, shares a designer loft with her handsome boyfriend, Chase, and has her dream job...