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Misery
King, Stephen
Paper Book
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive
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The last secret you'll ever keep
Stolarz, Laurie Faria
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Bestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz returns with The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep, a thrilling novel of an eighteen-year-old girl's search for answers and what she finds instead. Four days... Trapped in a well, surrounded by dirt, scratching at the...
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The cellar
Preston, Natasha.
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A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines, twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling thriller author Natasha Preston! Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her-and three other girls- Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect flowers. His family. But flowers...
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The Marbury lens
Smith, Andrew
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A 16-year-old boy who escapes a kidnapper thinks he can forget his trauma, but instead, he loses his grip on reality and believes he's part of an alternate world called Marbury. Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He...
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The mirror man
Kepler, Lars
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER * Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality. "Dark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson...
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Asadora! Volume 1
Urasawa, Naoki
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A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won't quit. In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom--and not a soul...
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The power couple
Berenson, Alex
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well...
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Living dead girl
Scott, Elizabeth.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all...
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Still missing
Stevens, Chevy.
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van...
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Stolen
Christopher, Lucy.
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A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of...
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The bunker diary
Brooks, Kevin
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I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no...
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Hush : an Irish princess' tale
Napoli, Donna Jo
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Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is
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Above
Morley, Isla.
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In the bestselling vein of Room and The Lovely Bones, a stunning and harrowing novel about a Kansas teenager who is abducted and locked away in an abandoned missile silo by a survivalist who believes he is saving her from the impending destruction of the world. I am a...
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Mother may I : a novel
Jackson, Joshilyn
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller." -Wall Street Journal "Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against...
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The girl who was supposed to die
Henry, April.
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"Take her out back and finish her off." She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run. In her riveting style,...
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The night she disappeared : a novel
Jewell, Lisa
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK "Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart." --Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author ...
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The natural way of things
Wood, Charlotte
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"A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, "contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror."
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Bride of the sea : a novel
Quotah, Eman
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During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting their first child, and he is harboring a secret: the word divorce is whispering in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in...
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One Kick
Cain, Chelsea.
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Meet Kick Lannigan. She's twenty-one. She can pick any lock. She knows five ways to kill you with a jacket. Get ready to fall in love. From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first...
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When the stars go dark : a novel
McLain, Paula
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK * "A total departure for the author of The Paris Wife, McLain's emotionally intense and exceptionally well-written thriller entwines its fictional crime with real cases."--People (Book of the...
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Bel canto : a novel
Patchett, Ann.
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award * Winner of the Orange Prize * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." --Washington Post Book World Ann Patchett's...
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Sleeping bear : a thriller
Sullivan, Connor
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WINNER OF THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY/CRIME NOVEL "Sleeping Bear is...one of those rare novels that keeps getting better and better and better. Remember the author's name--Connor Sullivan." --James Patterson A former Army veteran seeking...
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The forest of vanishing stars
Harmel, Kristin
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Parade "Best Books of Summer" pick * Real Simple summer reading pick * SheReads "Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021" pick The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (P...
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Room
Donoghue, Emma
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The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her...
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