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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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Finlay Donovan novels volume 4
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English
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"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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Spy school volume 11
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.
6) Unicorn boy
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Series
Unicorn boy) volume 1
Publisher
First Second
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English
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"The first few years of Brian Reyes' life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a bump appeared on his head, and it grew... and grew... and grew until it was a full-blown, sparkling, singing unicorn horn. That's absolutely the last thing a shy kid like Brian wants, but destiny waits for no unicorn boy. Luckily, Brian has his reassuring pal Avery to keep him grounded as weird occurrences start stacking up, like Brian's...
7) Ghostcloud
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Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
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English
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Forced to shovel coal underground in a half-bombed power station, 12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma discovers his own innate powers with the help of a ghostly girl and is determined to save himself and his friends from a cruel and sinister scheme orchestrated by an evil woman.
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Which way to anywhere volume 1
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Hodder Children's books
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English
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Gifted with the ability to draw maps of worlds that are beyond imagining, K2 O'Hero, sworn to keep his family's Magical history a secret, must use his gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds when his baby sister is kidnapped.
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Eve Duncan novels volume 11
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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CIA agent, Catherine Ling's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something she awakens to every day. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her, and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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English
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England, 1192. When Maggie's brother Michael is kidnapped by outlaws, she appeals to the grim Sir Conrad for help. The first time he sees her, Conrad is overwhelmed by Maggie's beauty and courage. Yet what will it cost him to aid this peasant girl, who seems strangely familiar? Working together to find Michael, Maggie and Conrad discover more about each other - but some knowledge is dangerous. As Christmas approaches, will their love prevail?
12) Last night
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English
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"During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--Provided by publisher.
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Shane and Jonah volume 10
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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English
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It was the riskiest job Shane Preston and Jonah Jones had ever taken on. The Texas Rangers wanted them to ride into a lawless town called Sombrero and kidnap Lobo Dawson, a prominent member of Sam Hashknife's notorious outlaw gang. If they could fetch him back to Ranger headquarters, it was hoped that he could be made to talk and reveal the location of the Hashknife Outfit's hideout. But Dawson would prove to be a tough prisoner to hold...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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From the award-winning writer of Homesickness and Young Skins, a darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town secrets that won't stay buried. As Ballina in the west of Ireland prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer Cillian English and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum....
16) Super game book
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Series
Press start! volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
"Meanie King Viking kidnaps Super Rabbit Boy's animal friends, and it is up to Super Rabbit Boy to save them. Each page offers a number of options readers to make this story unfold."--
17) The otherwoods
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
When twelve-year-old River's only friend is kidnapped and dragged to the terrifying spirit world of The Otherwoods, they have no choice but to face the world's monsters and their own fears to become the hero they were destined to be.
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Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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English
Description
When Tabitha Wynmere's soldier brother Will fails to return from a night patrol, she steals his spare uniform, disguises herself as a Redcoat, and braves the wild beauty of the Highlands to find him. What she doesn't expect is to have a knife held to her throat by a handsome, battle-scarred Scotsman hiding in the woods! She and Hamish MacLeod strike up an uneasy alliance - but could he be involved in Will's disappearance?
19) Hunting Eve
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Series
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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A second installment in a new Eve Duncan story arc trilogy finds the stakes raised higher as the forensic sculptor battles her captor and discovers brutally dangerous truths about why she has been targeted.
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