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  Drowning Ruth

  by Christina Schwarz

  Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she... (more)
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  Bird Lake Moon

  by Kevin Henkes

  Spencer thought the house might be haunted. Mitch knew it wasn't. And he knew why. The whole time Spencer and Mitch hung out together at Bird Lake that summer, there were secrets keeping them apart. And maybe a secret knowledge keeping them together, too—together like members of the same tribe. Like friends.
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  The Watcher

  by James Howe

  Perfect Strangers Every day, she sits at the top of the stairs leading to the beach. Always writing in her little notebook. Always watching. Watching the loving big brother, so caring and attentive to his little sister. Watching the handsome lifeguard with his golden tan. But no matter how closely she watches, she can't begin to know the secrets behind the perfect facades of their lives. And they... (more)
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  The Day the Falls Stood Still

  by Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves. 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she is impatient to return to her... (more)
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  The Lucky One

  by Nicholas Sparks

  Logan thibault finds a picture of a girl on the beach. The picture brings him all kinds of luck. So he decides to take a journey and walk all the way to North Carolina trying to find the girl who has brought him all kinds of luck.For Beth is struggling with problems of her own....her volatile ex-husband wont accept their relationship is over... despite a growing attraction between them... (more)
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  Black Water

  by Joyce Carol Oates

  A senator seduces young Kelly Kelleher at a Fourth of July picnic, and as they head for his hotel, his rented Toyota swerves off the unnamed road and into the black water. Reprint. NYT.
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  Bag of Bones

  by Stephen King

  Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara... (more)
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  Fracture

  by Megan Miranda

  Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine -despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from... (more)
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  The Beach House

  by James Patterson, Peter De Jonge

  Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldnt be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who... (more)
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  The Great Wide Sea

  by Madaline Herlong

  Ben, Dylan, and Gerry are still mourning their mother’s death when their dad decides to buy a boat and take them on a year-long sailing trip. Tensions flare between Ben and his father, but they gradually learn to live together in close quarters. But one morning, the boys wake up to discover their father has disappeared—and they are lost. What happened to him? Where are they? And what will they do when a... (more)
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  A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama

  by Laura Amy Schlitz

  A feisty orphan is taken in by a band of phony spiritualists in this intriguing, engaging novel. Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception,... (more)
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  How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

  by Sara Nickerson

  Margaret's father died in a mysterious drowning accident when she was eight years old. Four years later, her mother still won't talk about it -- in fact, she doesn't talk about much of anything. But when Margaret's mother takes her and her little sister, Sophie, to a strange abandoned mansion and puts a FOR SALE BY OWNER sign in the front yard, Margaret is determined to solve the puzzle of her family, once and for... (more)
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  Deep and Dark and Dangerous

  A Ghost Story

  by Mary Downing Hahn

  Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children. One's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie…but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? When she asked her mother, she doesn't answer. Ali is curious. She will have all summer to figure it out, since she's spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom... (more)
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  Anatomy of Ghosts

  by Andrew Taylor

  1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth to investigate.
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  Children of the Red King: Book 7

  Charlie Bone and the Shadow

  by Jenny Nimmo

  The enchanter Count Harken is back to take his revenge on the Red King's heirs, starting with Charlie Bone's family! Charlie's ancestor has been kidnapped and imprisoned in the dark, forbidding land of Badlock, and it's up to Charlie to save him. Traveling through a painting to the terrifying countryside, Charlie and his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, take up the quest. But when Runner Bean gets trapped, Charlie... (more)
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  Undertow

  by Sydney Bauer

  It’s the debut thriller guaranteed to pull readers in. After the daughter of a powerful senator dies in a tragic accident, the witness to the accident, an esteemed female attorney, unexpectedly finds herself charged with murder by the girl’s vengeful father—a man with his own twisted agenda.
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  Snow Falling on Cedars

  by David Guterson

  In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memories grow as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries - memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl; memories of land desired,... (more)
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  The Taken

  by Inger Ash Wolfe

  The eagerly awaited second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut mystery The Calling . DI Hazel Micallef is still recovering from back surgery when a report comes in that a body has been found in a nearby lake, snagged under several feet of water. But as DC Wingate says, the whole thing is way too eerie. The first installment of a story has just been published in the local paper: a passage that... (more)
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  That's a Dead One Alright

  by Susan Case

  Jimi Smith was determined to become a famous investigative journalist, but when her high school exposé turned out to be a major embarrassment, Jimi altered her direction in life. Now, Jimi is broke, unemployed, and back in Ditters Ferry. After a fiery fiasco at her best friend's apartment, she is forced to look for work and a place to live. Unfortunately, the only job available is writing at the local newspaper,... (more)
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  The God of Small Things

  by Arundhati Roy

  Southern India 1969. Here, armed only with the invincible innocence of children, Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, who loves by night the same man her children adore by day...their blind grandmother, who plays Handel on her violin...their beloved uncle, A Rhodes Scholar pickle baron, radical Marxist,... (more)