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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning author Brian Freeman. Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls , named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the Dark Star.;...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Morgan's bloodstained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she&;d been murdered, although her body was never found. Her disappearance left her infant children to the care of their father. Once a pilot, mother, wife, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina had to flee her old life to save her family. She reinvented herself as Leah Trenton, a guide in the Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine. She never...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
A grieving father, private investigator Cal Weaver, offers a ride to a teenage girl in the hopes of finding information on the drug dealer responsible for his son's death, but discovers a web of secrets and lies in the small upstate New York town of Griffon.
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Language
English
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Formats
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
5) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about segregation and family.
Author
Series
Cincinnati volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger intensifies when Michael witnesses a stranger kill his stepfather. Desperate and afraid, the boys have nowhere...
11) Unfailing love
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
157 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Willow loves the woods near her house. They're calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of her one day, she decides to run away into the woods. There, she meets Pilu, a lost tree spirit who can't find her way back home--which turns out to be the magnolia grove Willow's mom used to take her to. Willow offers to help Pilu, and the two quickly become friends. But the journey...