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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Once upon a time, there was a man who loved children. He loved them so much he tried to save them from their imperfect parents. Unfortunately, Hector Woollie, didn't work for Child Protective Services...and the children he rescued, he murdered.
Once upon a time, Leslie had a happy marriage, a happy son, and a happy life. Now divorced, she is trapped in ongoing battles with her ex-husband, Roger, especially over their newly-adolescent son, Ian.
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"Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from...
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In Avas dreams, her son, Noah, looks just the way she remembers him: a sweet two-year-old in rolled-up jeans and a red sweatshirt. When Ava wakes, the agonizing truth hits her all over again. Noah went missing two years ago, and his body has never been found. Almost everyone, including Avas semi-estranged husband, Wyatt, assumes the boy drowned after falling off the dock near their Church Island home. Ava has spent most of the past two years in and...
4) Mamasaurus
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
'Babysaurus is looking for his Mamasaurus. Can his prehistoric friends help him find her?"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
No one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben is gone, and more than a year later, it's clear that he is never coming back. Until he does...for just twenty-four hours, before once again vanishing from his crib without a trace. Rumors start to circulate through Carrie's small town. Whispers that she's seeing...
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"When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son Ethan is missing--vanished from the cabin where he'd been on an overnight class trip. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground, but she's too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Ethan's trail in the mountain forest"--Back cover.
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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...
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"After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine...
9) Just lost!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
When Little Critter stops to tie his shoelace at the crowded mall, he loses sight of his mother and is taken to the security office where he waits for his mother to be found.
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A year had passed since little Danny's death-a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But Tina Evans swears that she sees Danny in a stranger's car and then dreams that he is still alive. When she awakes she finds a message in his bedroom--"not dead" and the mystery begins.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
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She becomes aware of the silence at the other end of the line. A prickling sensation crawls up her arms. Her heart speeds up. 'Found who?' she asks, slowly, carefully, deliberately. 'They found Daniel.' Six years ago Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As the playground empties, panic bubbles inside her. Daniel is nowhere to be found. Her darling son is missing. Six years later After years of sleepless nights and endless...