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1) Oracle
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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On a foggy winter morning two children discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a field. One enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn't the last to disappear. Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ship's secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, to unravel the mystery, who soon realises the ship could...
2) Blink
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English
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"Blink: Three years ago, Toni's five-year-old daughter Evie disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace. But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself, and a devastating truth. Toni's mind is trapped in a world of silence, her only chance to save herself is to manage...
3) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"Watch your brother," Beth Cappadora tells Vincent, 7. Five minutes later she returns, "Where is Ben?" It is the moment every parent fears and it arrives to a mother of three in Chicago. The novel follows the family as year after year the hope of finding Ben recedes. Nine years later a boy knocks on their door looking for lawn work. It can't be. It is.
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English
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"Tom and Abby Stuart had everything: a perfect marriage, successful careers, and a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter, Caitlin. Then one day Caitlin vanished without a trace. For a while they grasped at every false hope and followed every empty lead, but the tragedy ended up changing their lives, overwhelming them with guilt and dread, and shattering their marriage. Four years later, Caitlin is found alive--dirty and disheveled yet preternaturally...
6) Reservoir 13
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Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Language
English
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A “fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving” novel about an English village haunted by one family’s loss—for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith’s NW (George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily).
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has...
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A “fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving” novel about an English village haunted by one family’s loss—for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith’s NW (George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily).
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has...
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English
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Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl's face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights driving up and down the highway, searching for his daughter, refusing to give up hope, even though most people believe she is dead. When the car Gabe saw that night is found abandoned in a lake, with...
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English
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Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn?t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy?s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads....
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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After a kidnapper uses a fake summer-camp bus to abduct four children and demand a million-dollar ransom, the different sets of parents are at odds with each other as to what to do, all while an accident incapacitates the kidnapper and the children are forced to fend for themselves in the woods.
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"It's a desperate race against the clock. Detective Demonbruen and his temporary partner, Jan Loflin, seek a missing six-year-old foster child. Demonbruen, himself a survivor of the foster system, is haunted by his own brutal childhood and the death of his father. He labors under a cloud of suspicion, determined to find the missing boy before it's too late. But are his motives really pure? His record is a minefield of red flags and question marks:...
12) No one saw
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English
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An abducted child is at the center of a web of lies in this crime thriller featuring a dynamic male female police detective team.
Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn't a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account...
Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn't a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account...
13) Little face
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English
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When Alice leaves her infant daughter at home with her husband David for the first time since becoming a new mother, she returns to a horrifying sight: her daughter, Florence, has been swapped with another baby. No one... not even David... believes her.
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English
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After being left for dead, Evie Sherman only remembers her own name and her daughter, Angel, whom she believes is in grave danger, and with the warning phrase "Trust no one" stuck in her head, she navigates the uncertainty of her mind in hopes of determining what happened to her.
Battered and left for dead, Evie Sherman eventually remembers her own name and her daughter, Angel. The police can find no evidence of the girl's existence, but Evie believes...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"How far would you go to keep your family safe? Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, she has Bradley, her young nephew, to worry about, and the cops don't seem to be putting much effort into finding the kids. And then the unthinkable happens: Bradley disappears....
16) Veiled threat
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English
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""My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. Demons are putting rips in the veil in order to cross over and steal my friends and allies away. But, going after them isn't even close to simple. The deepest level of the veil is not a place you can just open a doorway too, after all, and of course,...
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Windblown Media
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
18) If angels fall
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Series
Tom Reed and Walt Sydowski novels volume 1
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English
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"There are some horrors a man can never forget. Sounds so chilling that they can never be silenced. The frantic screams of drowning children. The anguished sobs of the father who couldn't save them. How long before those echoes give way to whispers only he can hear? To voices that promise redemption--from his private hell ..."--Cover.
19) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a toddler wanders off in the grocery store, the family dog uses its excellent sense of smell to track down the missing child.
20) Autumn story
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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While the mice who live in Brambly Hedge are busy gathering their fall harvests, little Primrose Woodmouse wanders into a cornfield, where she has tea with a family of mice who live on its edge. Primrose then explores a rather frightening tunnel and gets lost in the woods as darkness falls. Will she ever find her way home again?