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1) Paranoid
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English
Description
"Twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston accidentally shot and killed her brother in a teenage game that went horribly wrong. Today, Rachel is moving on and trying to put the guilt of what happened behind her. But then she receives a text on the anniversary of her brother's death: I forgive you. This text is the first of many, all seemingly from the beyond the grave, and at the same time she is receiving midnight phone calls from a blocked number. Are these...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Readers are loving With Friends Like These:
“Kept me reading well into the night,” five stars
“A book you will want to read in one breath,” five stars
“Gripping thriller that will have you racing through,” five stars
A reunion of friends in remote Scotland turns into a terrifying ordeal in this twisting crime thriller by the author of The People Next Door.
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“Kept me reading well into the night,” five stars
“A book you will want to read in one breath,” five stars
“Gripping thriller that will have you racing through,” five stars
A reunion of friends in remote Scotland turns into a terrifying ordeal in this twisting crime thriller by the author of The People Next Door.
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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"--
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his 'stoke.' The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. Driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe...
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English
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Sometimes they're called hoods, sometimes greasers. The name changes from place to place, but it doesn't matter -- they're the outsiders, the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the "other" side of town, with little hope for fancy cars and clothes and the good things of American life. This is their story as told by Ponyboy, a greaser with good reason to fear the Socs (the more privileged boys) and a witness to the savage baiting that leads his best...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter. Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training,...
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English
Description
"Anna Graves's whole life has recently been turned upside down. A new mother, she's just gone back to her job as a radio presenter and is busy navigating a new schedule of late-night feedings and early-morning wake-ups while also dealing with her newly separated husband. Then the worst happens. While Anna is walking on the beach with her daughter, she's attacked by a crazed teenager. Terrified, Anna reacts instinctively to protect her baby. But her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Five tumultuous years have changed Titus Lambert in every way. Back then, Titus was preparing to marry his longtime sweetheart, Mandy Yoder. Then came the unthinkable a tragic car wreck that left Titus serving time for vehicular manslaughter. Titus isn't sure he belongs in this peaceful place anymore, but he must make amends. When he goes to visit the Kings, whose son, Alvin, died that terrible night, he's shocked to see that their farm has fallen...
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English
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"In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead--and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter."--Publisher annotation.
Five years in, Leigh Huyett and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some precious moments...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protester and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had legally acted in self-defense...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With her husband out of town, Lucia Harper has her hands full keeping her household in order. Her headstrong daughter, Bea, has taken up with a louse named Ted Darby and persists in meeting him despite her mother's warnings. During one tryst, Bea and Darby quarrel violently. Bea accidentally kills Darby and runs away. To protect her family, Lucia disposes of the body. Because of this rash act, she faces not only a murder investigation, but two ruthless...
18) The last wave
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
19) Lies & alibis
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nobody's better at lies-for-hire than retired grifter Ray Elliott. His alibi service for cheating spouses is doing a bang-up business. But when a new client accidentally kills his mistress during a weekend tryst, the desperate Ray has to enlist his fast-thinking assistant, Lola to help the mastermind with one final con. They have to outwit the cops, blackmailers and hit men who are out to bury him.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using actual legal teams, witnesses, evidence, and courtroom procedure, presents a fictional but unscripted trial charging Officer Daniel Pantaleo of the New York Police Department for reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first degree for the death of Eric Garner, who died in a chokehold in 2014.
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