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"When her true-crime podcast becomes an overnight sensation, a young woman is pulled into the web of a case that may offer a surprising connection to her own sister's disappearance years earlier"--
Eight-year-old Marti Reese watched her sister Maggie get into a car-- and she never returned. Twenty years later, after countless false leads, Marti has abandoned her marriage, is drinking to forget, and documents her never-ending search via a true-crime...
142) Stained glass
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Father Dowling mysteries volume 28
Pub. Date
[2009]
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With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilarys, are dangerously close to the bone. Father Dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who dont want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help when...
143) Silence the dead
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2014.
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The new mayor of a small town in Illinois unearths a series of devastating secrets when he re-opens a 30-year-old murder investigation 17-year-old Betty Jo Dean was abducted and murdered thirty years ago. It took two days to find her body. She was found, fully dressed apart from her slacks, beneath a gnarled, stunted tree, shot in the back of the head. No one was ever charged with her murder. Now, following an appeal from one of his constituents,...
145) Uh-oh, Cleo
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[2008]
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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What starts out as a perfectly ordinary day in the Small house turns into Stiches Saturday when Cleo gets a cut on the head after her twin brother, Jack, accidentally pulls down their "Toy House."
146) Storm's Fury
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Amelia Storm volume 1
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
Some storms destroy. Others clear a path. Military veteran Amelia Storm returns to her hometown of Chicago when her beloved police officer brother is killed in the line of duty. Now she is a special agent with the FBI. No longer a scared girl, she vows to avenge her brother and do what she can to end the city's deep wells of corruption. A television documentary puts a spotlight on a four-year-old kidnapping. Amelia and her colleagues in the...
147) Hide away
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Rachel Marin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020].
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"On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where local detectives see suicide, she sees murder. They resent...
148) Turbulent
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Days of want volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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When coordinated EMP and Cyber attacks wipe out the nation's power grid, communications and transportation systems, ultra marathon runner, Maddie Langston is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time. According to her father, she doesn't have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late. Although she knows she must flee the Windy...
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Orphan train volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....
150) Storm's Rite
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Amelia Storm volume 6
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Last chance or last rites? When the corpse of a drug dealer turned federal informant is fished out of Lake Michigan, Special Agent Amelia Storm knows it's more than just a drug deal gone bad. Not only is the body hideously mutilated and the blood drained, but a number has been carved into the victim's chest. And he isn't the only one. Is a hitman responsible for the gruesome murders, or could a larger organized crime enterprise be involved? Or is...
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Left Behind (Graphic novels). Left Behind volume 1
Left behind graphic novel volume 1, 1
Left Behind. Left Behind volume 1
Left behind graphic novel volume 1, 1
Left Behind. Left Behind volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--had happened and he had been left behind.
152) American betiya
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Eighteen-year-old Rani, a budding photographer, grapples with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.
Rani Kelkar never lied to her parents-- until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in-- his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art-- make him her mother's worst nightmare. When Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give. When a twist...
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