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A mesmerizing and thrilling novel--perfect for fans of Tana French and Stieg Larsson--that introduces a modern, unforgettable rookie cop whose past is as fascinating and as deadly as the crimes she investigates.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Boston Globe
SHE KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE. . . .
At first, the murder scene appears sad, but not unusual: a young woman undone by drugs
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"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when...
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In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes—from food safety to racism and immigration—and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from.
The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked...
The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked...
86) Reading Jackie
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p2010
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In the latter part of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became heavily involved in books as both an editor and a writer. Here, William Kuhn chronicles Jackie's literary career, from a editing for Viking and Doubleday to publishing several biographies and memoirs.
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University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran sportswriter L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage...
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"As the widow of a revered Millersburg College alumnus and one of the school's biggest donors, Juliet Favor has immense wealth that empowers her acquisition of whatever, and whomever, she wants. So when Juliet is murdered the night before she is slated to sign a new will--one that would prove unfavorable to both the college and her two children, Sonny and Sally--Sheriff Bruce Robertson faces no shortage of suspects....
91) Revolution
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Sixties trilogy volume 2
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2014
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It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Sara Yoder is learning that danger can lurk in freedom's shadow. John Schlabaugh and Abe Yoder - Sara's friends and fellow travelers on the Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe - are missing. Worried, but distrustful of most English, Sara calls Pastor Cal Troyer for help. Then Sara also disappears. Troyer, along with his old friends Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson, must race against the clock to find a murderer and break a ruthless...
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Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved, and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, away from those with a personal motivation for stopping them. At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousand-year-old mystery, or death....
95) Midnight sun
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The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulf—as good a name as any, he thinks—and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman....