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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition in this psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody. Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for pilot season. Every cable network and studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Description
Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks when she discovers that the woman in the subway's video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friend who disappeared without a trace a decade earlier.
3) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier's propulsive, genre-bending debut novel asks: what happens when we discover intelligent life just next door? And what does it really mean to know we're not alone in the universe?The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life areāthat's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something.In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students...
5) Wolf
Author
Series
Jack Caffery volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a vagrant--the Walking Man--finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words "HELP US" attached to its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved--until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery's brother in exchange for the detective's help tracking down the dog's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply...impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he ran...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
8) Gothikana
Author
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Bramble hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages : Illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.