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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author's latest stand-alone thriller, with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren. My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn't. Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero. I'm looking for...
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Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.--From publisher description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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After their father's death, two children and their invalid mother head south to the rugged mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. They flourish until the local coal-and gas company comes around conniving to seize their property.
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"Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to their lavish château for the weekend. In one terrifying moment, Charles falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road, plunging thirty feet down...
6) The kiss
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2001.
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Who could tell that a kiss could be so dangerous? For years, Isabelle Forrester, a beautiful Parisian wife married to a heartless banker, has been carrying on a friendship via transatlantic telephone with Bill Robinson, a Washington power broker also trapped in a loveless marriage. Finally, they meet for a few platonic days in London, but just as they kiss for the first time in the back of Bill's limo, a bus ploughs into them, and they are crushed....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, he finds himself stranded on an embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife, Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly, leaving his wife, brother, and young son to deal with his sudden death.
9) Razor Girl
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Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
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"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but. Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor Girl--so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But, the scam is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out of control while gathering in some of the wildest...
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House of secrets (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her that mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own...
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At twenty-four, Gordon McKenna thinks he's already heard the worst news of his life when he learns that his sister Georgia is fatally ill. Then Georgia and her husband die in a car accident, leaving behind their baby daughter, Keefer. Gordon and his parents are able to survive their sorrow only by devoting themselves to the care of the beloved one-year-old. But the decision of who will raise Keefer is far from over, and soon Gordon's most basic assumptions...
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Book of Lost Things volume 2
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"The redemptive power of stories and family is revealed in this atmospheric tale set in the same magical universe as The Book of Lost Things"--
14) Midnight sun
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Sinclair sisters trilogy volume 1
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c2003
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Isolating himself in a remote part of the Yukon territory in order to forget his past, Call Hawkins finds himself unable to ignore New York City girl Charity Sinclair, who is being targeted by a vengeful killer.
15) Blame
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2017.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott BLAME The crash that killed him...Two years ago, Jane Norton crashed her car on a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving her with amnesia. At first, everyone was sympathetic. Then they found Jane's note: I wish we were dead together. A girl to blame... From that day the town turned against her. But even now Jane is filled with questions: Why were they on that road? Why was she with David?...
17) I let you go
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"Jenna Gray moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident and desperate to heal from the loss of her child. At the same time, two Bristol police investigators try to get to the bottom of the hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them."--Back cover.
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Black winter series volume 1
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2020.
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"Beware The Stillness... She can't stop running. If she stops, they'll find her. If she stops, they'll kill her. If she stops...it's all over. Clare knows she was running from something-she just can't remember what. When she wakes, aching and injured, in a stranger's gothic nightmare of a home, she can't help but feel something is after her. She's desperate to keep going, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, and there's nothing...
19) Deadly memories
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2016.
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"The last thing Maura Thomas remembers before her car careened over a steep embankment is having dinner with her college roommate...over twenty years ago. Everything in between is a blank. Maura has no recollection of her husband, her daughter, or her busy, glamorous existence as owner of a Beverly Hills boutique. Maura cant even be sure that everyone around her is who they claim to be. Is it paranoia or self-preservation that makes her uneasy? And...
20) Crossroads
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Jean Wright is a widow in a small New England city and the owner of a venerable glassworks company. When a tragic car accident robs her of a loved one, Jean must put aside her grief to raise the surviving child, the one-year-old Guin, as her own. As the child blossoms into an independent young woman, the two generations clash. When guin defies the only mother she's ever known by striking out on her own--pursuing a completely different kind of career,...