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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...
3) Tomie
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Photography student Tsukiko is plagued by violent dreams as she struggles to recall long-suppressed memories following a teenage trauma with the help of psychiatrist Dr. Hosono. Meanwhile, as Detective Harada leads an investigation into a missing high-school girl, he discovers a long line of similar cases that can be traced back decades, with all of the victims going by the name of Tomie Kawakami, and all slaughtered and decapitated by jealous lovers...
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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.
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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...
10) Trenque Lauquen
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"The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts. The missing woman is Laura, a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But in order to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries must be explored. There's the question...
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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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