Alyssa Bresnahan
61) Darkness peering
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The murder of a teenage girl in tiny Flowering Dogwood, Maine, has remained unsolved for eighteen years when Detective Rachel Storrow decides to retrace the footsteps of her policeman father and try to solve the case. But no sooner has her investigation begun than there is a second shocking crime, and Rachel's obsessive search for the truth turns into a journey of suspicion, bone-deep fear, and staggering revelations.
62) Flip-flop girl
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Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
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c1999
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In a dusty attic, on Christmas Day 1929, four teenage girls write their plans for the future on slips of paper and then hide them in a cobalt blue bottle. Sixty-five years later, a television news reporter discovers the forgotten bottle and traces the wherabouts of the now elderly women.
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Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved by Random House when The Grapes of Wrath met with wide acclaim. In the belief that Steinbeck already adequately explored the subject matter, Babb's lyrical novel about a farm family's relentless struggle to survive in both Depression-era Oklahoma and in the California migrant labor camps gathered dust for decades.^B Rescued from obscurity by the University...
65) A rush of wings
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Rush of wings novels volume 1
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Though her panic is real, Noelle St. Claire is uncertain what danger she is fleeing. Fragmented images and slivers of memory have driven her to abandon her wealthy, sheltered life for the hope of a haven-remote and safe. Noelle's arrival at the Rocky Mountain horse ranch owned by Rick Spencer and his brother Morgan causes more than a little stir. Beautiful, vulnerable, yet strangely secretive, Noelle is an enigma the two contrasting brothers seek...
66) The Presence
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c2003
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While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
67) Into the forest
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Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in...
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After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...
70) Remember me
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After their young son's tragic death, Menley and Adam Richardson, a couple living on Cape Cod, try to begin life anew with a baby daughter, though an evil fate still seems to stalk them
72) Moving target
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Rarities Unlimited volume 1
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2001.
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"When you read this, I'll be dead ... " These are the troubling words Serena Charter's grandmother has written on a note accompanying four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript delivered after the old woman's passing. Seeking clues to the mystery laid out before her, Serena turns to Erik North, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for the past
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After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage—and she’ll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it’s nearly impossible. Shaken by the thought of being forced to leave the people and the community she’s grown...
74) Sense of evil
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The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen.
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[2010]
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Zee Finch, a psychotherapist, has come home to Salem to take care of her ailing father and to try to figure out her own life after the suicide of one of her patients, which was made even more difficult by Zee's past--her mother committed suicide herself, in front of her.
76) What Janie found
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2012, c2000
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While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
77) Uncertain voyage
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Newly divorced Melissa Aubrey embarks on a cruise as an adjunct to the therapy she's undertaken for depression following her divorce. On the first leg of her journey, a mysterious fellow passenger entrusts her with a package and begs her to deliver it when she reaches Majorca. He tells her that the book in the package is of extreme importance and that he fears he will not live to deliver it himself. Melissa soon finds herself in grave danger, forced...
78) Bad dreams
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Fear Street. Original series volume 22
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Every night Maggie has the same horrible dream of watching a girl being murdered, but the real nightmare begins when the dream starts to come true.
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Much to the amazement of her doctors, Faith Partker awakens from her life-threatening coma, but with no memory of her past. When she learns that her best friend Dinah has disappeared, she begins to remember things. Now horrifying visions of violence and intimacy with a strange man begin to intrude her dreams. Could her accident be connected with Dinah's disappearance? Something terrible is happening, and Faith must find a way to saver her friend before...
80) Eileen
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2015.
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...