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"Why are baking contestants disappearing? Fannie Miller, a quilt maker with a love of baked goods and a penchant for solving mysteries, has met a life goal by qualifying for the finals of the Tuscarawa County baking contest. But when some of the other contestants start vanishing, it seems something nefarious might be afoot. Fannie is forced to enlist the help of Foster Bates, a retired cop and part-time private investigator, by disrupting his peaceful...
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A long time ago, Maya's family was given the ability to see a mysterious pillar of light in the distance, but when her sister leaves to follow her light she goes missing--and Maya soon finds herself on a surreal road trip with two people she barely knows, headed towards a ghost town where her sister was last seen.
4) Floreana
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"After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn't dare tell Gavin why she's really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave-- confessions of another woman who needed to disappear."--
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Denise Pikka Thiem, de 41 años, norteamericana y de origen asiático, necesitaba reinventarse, hacer un break en su vida. Una película de éxito, The Way (El Camino), la animó a hacerlo de la misma forma que su protagonista: recorriendo el Camino de Santiago. La mañana del 5 de abril de 2015, después de salir de Astorga (León), la peregrina desapareció sin dejar rastro. Esta es la historia de una apasionante investigación de la Policía-también...
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Iba a repoblar el mundo con Él cuando llegara el apocalipsis, pero terminó siendo esclavizada en la selva de Perú por el gurú Félix Steven Manrique. Un año y medio después de cruzar el océano para hallar su "salvación", Patricia Aguilar, una joven de dieciocho años de Elche, fue rescatada por la policía peruana en una chacra para animales. Allí cuidaba de cuatro niños y de su hija recién nacida que había tenido con su captor.
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Cazaré al monstruo por ti es, sobre todo, la historia del compromiso de un puñado de policías con unas niñas, víctimas de un depredador sexual, pero también es la historia de la mayor caza del hombre desencadenada nunca en Madrid, la Operación Candy. En el 2014, la Brigada de Policía Judicial de Madrid se enfrentó a un reto gigantesco: un tipo que raptaba niñas a plena luz del día, las retenía durante horas y las agredía sexualmente.
Cazaré...
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Eyewitness: Atlantic Canadians Experience History In Their Own Words details how some Atlantic Canadians reacted and what they remembered when faced with a memorable experience, such as the disastrous Halifax Explosion in December 1917. Howe also takes you to Moscow where you'll meet a local reporter assigned to cover hockey's historic 1972 Summit Series, and you will read about a chance encounter with Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
A sunny but...
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In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family's front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived three days later, demanding twenty thousand dollars for the boy's return. The city was about to host the America's Centennial celebration, and the mass panic surrounding the Charley Ross case plunged the nation into hysteria.
The desperate search led the police to inspect every building in Philadelphia, set up saloon surveillance...
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From Matt Birkbeck, investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix's #1 movie Girl in the Picture, a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William "Big Billy" D'Elia, the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who ran organized crime in the US for more than fifty years.
William "Big Billy" D'Elia is Mafia royalty.
The "adopted" son of...
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The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.
Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of 'friends', but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something...
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"London, England, 1814 Lady Anna Clifton will stop at nothing to find her missing brother-even if it means working alongside the dashingly handsome but sometimes infuriating Mr. Jennings, who just might steal her heart. Lady Anna Clifton has arrived in London with a purpose known only to a few. Her soldier brother has been reported wounded and missing in France, and if he is dead, his title and their family's estate will go to a horrible distant cousin,...
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"What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI and homicide detectives has now ballooned to over 150 women and men who volunteer their time in an effort to help families of deceased or missing loved ones bring closure to cases that have gone "cold." The Cold Case Foundation shares the most riveting and rewarding cases that the Foundation has helped to solve, from high-profile missing persons cases to decades-old murders"--
15) Lady in the lake
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Detective Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of a wealthy publisher's wife.
16) Close your eyes
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A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
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"UNA FAMILIA CON MUCHO PODER. La bodega Mas Vidal es una de las más grandes del país. Cuando su propietario Mateu Vidal, patriarca de una poderosa saga de empresarios, desaparece entre los cientos de hectáreas de viñedos, sus hijos no permiten que el caso recaiga únicamente en los policías de la zona. Quieren a los mejores y cuanto antes. UN POLICÍA EN CRISIS. López acaba de mudarse al Empordà, en el norte de Cataluña, huyendo del estrés...
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Hannah Edwards volume 1
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"This authentic ADHD reimagining of Hamlet is a fresh and unconventional take on a classic-that's also a mystery! It's Nancy Drew and Sammy Keyes mixed with Turtles All the Way Down and Honestly Elliott. Cheer on Hannah Edwards in this exciting mystery and relatable coming-of-age story about ADHD, friendship, school, and family. Hannah has a lot on her mind. Her father-the Canola King-is missing, and no one in her small town seems to care....
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Girl called Justice volume 3
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"Justina and her friends are now in their third year and a new, intriguing student who doesn't quite follow the rules of the boarding school starts to join the Owls. One day, after a night-time feast in the old school barn, the girls see a ghost in the gardens and... one of them disappears! Where is the girl? Can Justina find the person responsible before it's too late?"--
"Justina y sus amigas ya están en tercer curso y una alumna nueva, intrigante...
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"Eran la pareja perfecta... Hasta que ella desapareció. Casey Fletcher, una célebre actriz que acaba de perder a su esposo en un trágico accidente, intenta escapar de su dolor y una racha de malas críticas cuando decide refugiarse en la casa de su familia junto a un lago en Vermont. Equipada con un par de binoculares y varias botellas de licor, dedica su tiempo a observar a Tom y Katherine Royce, la atractiva pareja que vive en la casa al otro...
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