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"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted...
42) The match
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
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Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as...
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[2010]
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Swedish
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In the summer of 1981, a 9-year-old girl is left behind in her aunt's care while the rest of her family goes to Africa as aid workers. The aunt is soon courted by a man and leaves the girl with the promise to return in a few days. The abandoned girl keeps this a secret from everyone and uses her freedom to discover the world around her as the summer passes by. With sharpening senses she gradually discovers the often absurd and careless world of adults....
45) Any Sunday
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In "Any Sunday," when Marjorie develops appendicitis, she is admitted to the hospital where she soon finds herself falling in love with her new doctor, Sam Bretton, and in "A Home for Hannah," returning to Amish country to care for her sick mother, Miriam Kauffman must rely on Nick Bradley, the cop she blames for her brother's death, to help her find the mother of the baby who was abandoned on her porch.
46) Livia Lone
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Livia Lone novels volume 1
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[2016]
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English
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Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.
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"Seventeen-year-old Bliss Walker has been stuck in a home that doesn't feel like hers for six years. Ever since Mama dropped her off and never came back. Then, the summer before her senior year of high school, two things happen: Mama returns out of the blue, and Bliss meets Blake, a boy who listens like everything she has to say is worth hearing. It should be a dream come true. But as the summer spins on, Bliss finds herself facing a painful choice:...
48) The toll-gate
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Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet 'Crazy'Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life is rather dull for the adventure-loving Captain. But his soldiering days suddenly pale away besides an adventure - and romance - of a lifetime.
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Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
50) Virgin River
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Virgin River volume 1
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Melinda Monroe, desperate for a change after the death of her husband and too many years working at the county hospital in Los Angeles, answers an ad for a nurse practitioner/midwife in the small California town of Virgin River, but she arrives to find the pictures and promises the led her to take the job were all lies, and only the discovery of an abandoned infant on the doorstep of the town's elderly doctor convinces her of the need to stay.
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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later,...
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[2009]
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The Fairchild family is spending the Christmas holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman on Christmas Eve. Then, on Christmas morning, she learns of an abandoned, newborn baby boy who was left in a nearby dairy barn along with a...
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Little Bridge Island volume 2
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"A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-not-covered desk. But fate -- in the form of a newborn left in the library restroom -- has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate. When John Hartwell folds...
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2020.
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"On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He is on an important errand for his brother, who is a soldier overseas in World War II. But when Bruno spies Julie, the...
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(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 1
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English
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"Left on the train platform of some strange village, eight-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope as the hour grows late and the station sets to close. She clings to her suitcase like a life raft. When a peculiar old woman carrying a large umbrella approaches and inquires about her situation, Saffron doesn't immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but eventually does agree...
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