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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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"A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon--and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.'s Cecil Hotel--a 600-room building with a nine-decade history...
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Razorbill
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Twelve years ago Avril's mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline. Local legend claims that the women in the waves-- ghosts from old whaling stories-- called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Avril doesn't believe in ghosts, and has spent the years trying to make sense of the strange bits she does remember from that night: Stars falling into the sea. A blinding light. A tight grip on her wrist....
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Doubleday Canada
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When Marcy Taggart goes to Ireland after divorcing her husband, a chance encounter catapults her entire life into turmoil. Years earlier, her daughter, Devon, disappeared in the icy waters of the Georgian Bay after a canoeing accident, her body, never recovered. But on a day trip to Cork, Marcy is certain she spots Devon walking down the street. When the woman disappears into a crowd, Marcy begins a desperate search to find her and to uncover the...
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue--in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for D. I. Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. And then Challis finds some aerial photographs in the possession of his friend Kitty that link her to the murders…
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After a falling out, Samantha accidentally pushes her former best friend Rachel into a lake and does nothing to save her, but Samantha's life becomes a living nightmare when Rachel turns up at school and acts as if nothing happened.
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Still novels (Amy Stuart) volume 2
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English
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Sally Proulx and her son had found refuge with Helen Haines, a woman who provides safety for women fleeing abusive situations. When they both go missing, Clare, pretending to be one of Sally's long-lost friends, starts asking questions. Did they drown, was it an accident, or is their disappearance part of something else?
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Avid Reader Press
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A novel in which a successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar--a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man with whom he becomes inextricably and disturbingly linked.
13) The drowned boy
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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"A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer. Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses...
16) Medusa
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Venus Diamond mysteries volume 6
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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English
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Rushing home when her teenage brother is falsely accused of murder, Fish and Wildlife agent Venus Diamond investigates the circumstances of the victim's death, which appears related to an enormous tentacled sea creature.
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Baby Ganesh Agency investigations volume 1
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English
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On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.
The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.
As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and...
18) Sea witch
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Sea witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The fairy tale you thought you knew....The story of the Sea Witch, the villainess from Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale 'The Little Mermaid', told from the viewpoint of the Sea Witch when she was a 12-year-old girl....Evie has been wracked with guilt ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned. So when a girl appears on shore with an uncanny resemblance to Anna, Evie befriends her in an effort to make amends. And as the two girls catch the eyes...
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