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1) Vendetta
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Sisterhood series volume 3
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"Five years ago, Myra Rutledge's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver--the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. In an outright travesty of justice, the remorseless murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. Myra and six of her lifelong friends have convened to devise a plan for long-awaited, justly deserved, and very sweet revenge..."...
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Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
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Pull A Fast One? Not On The Sisterhood's Watch. . .
There are some things that a group of gracious ladies just can't overlook—and doing one of their friends dirty is at the top of the list. That's the mission of the Sisterhood, seven women who would do anything to help out one of their clan, especially when it means righting a wrong. And Isabelle Flanders has definitely been done wrong.
Her former colleague, the conniving Rosemary,
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Sisterhood series volume 1
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Nikki Quinn is devastated when her best friend Barbara is knocked down and killed by a hit-and-run driver who claims diplomatic immunity. But Nikki has her work and her lover, fellow lawyer Jack Nolan, to keep her going, whereas Barbara's mother, Myra, has nothing. Festering in a sea of recriminations and hatred, unable to gain a sense of perspective, Myra is lost...until one day she switches on the evening news and sees Marie Lewellen, mother of...
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Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters--until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves. They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still their lives would never be the same. Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned...
6) Free fall
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Sisterhood series volume 7
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English
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Yoko Akia had been hungering for revenge all her life. Now, she was about to get it. Yoko's mother, who had been bought by a rich American when she was 15, had died at 17 after giving birth to Yoko. It was perhaps a merciful escape from a tortured life that included slavery, degradation, and prostitution. Now that Yoko was a movie star, she was in a position to get her long overdue justice and punish her cruel father, with the help of the Sisterhood....
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"In this explosive new thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a wronged woman becomes a vigilante seeking revenge on the men who destroyed her family"--
Claudia Bishop's life fell apart when the aftermath of a brutal assault left her with a crumbling marriage, a newborn daughter, and a constant sense of anxiety about the world around her. Looking for a fresh start with a home restoration project and growing blog, she takes on a...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2010
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Brad Raines, a special agent for the FBI who is trying to solve a serial killer case in which a bridal veil is left at each crime scene, approaches the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a psychiatric institution with gifted clients, and when he enlists the help of Paradise, a young woman who can experience the final moments of a person's life when touching their dead body, he wonders if he can prevent the next murder.
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Thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell embarks on an emotional journey into the past when she is the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and in the haze of recovery, believes she is visited by her uncle, the Catholic priest who raised her following the deaths of her parents, and who she had been told died shortly after she was removed from his care at the age of nine following a housekeeper's charge of sexual abuse.
10) Hide and seek
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Sisterhood series volume 8
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English
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Mitch Riley, the ruthless assistant director of the FBI, intends to frames Cornelia "Nellie" Easter, the judge who helped the Sisterhood evade prison, and their lawyer, Lizzie Fox, in order to save his own career. He's created a special task force to hunt the Sisters down. Mitch has the entire FBI behind him, but he's about to discover that he's no match for seven formidable women with an unbreakable bond and a wickedly cunning plan to bring the fight...
11) Silks
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Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.
12) Panic
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Documentary filmmaker Evan Casher's life comes crashing down when his mother is brutally murdered and he narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life, only to learn from the enigmatic mercenary who saved him that Evan's entire life has been little more than a carefully constructed lie.
13) Gone
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Pierce Quincy, a P.I. and former FBI profiler, is very concerned when he finds the abandoned car of his partner and former lover, Rainie Connor. Especially when she had disappeared and blood stains covered the driver's seat of the car. Rainie had been working on a case involving a foster child, trying to discern if the child had been abused, or was in fact, the abuser. But now the boy had vanished too. With many questions to be answered, Pierce began...
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KEY News thrillers volume 8
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Diane Mayfield, a correspondent for the television news magazine "Hourglass," reluctantly travels to Ocean Grove on the New Jersey shore to interview Leslie Patterson, a troubled young woman who is widely believed to have faked her own kidnapping, but the story gets interesting when a second victim disappears, only to be found dead days later.
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Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
16) 2666
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Collects a series of five novellas from Roberto Bolaño, in which individuals are drawn for various reasons to the small Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared over the span of a decade.
17) The innocent
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Some mistakes can change your life forever. Like the one Matt Hunter made when he attempted to help a friend stop a fight that resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned. Now, nine years after his release, he's an ex-con taking nothing for granted. Married, and with a baby on the way, he feels like a lucky man. Then the phone call comes and in an instant the unraveling begins.
18) Pray for silence
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2010
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Kate Burkholder, the new chief of police in the small community of Painters Mill, Ohio, investigates the brutal murder of an Amish family of seven. When she discovers a diary, she realizes a haunting personal connection to the case and swears she will track down the killer and bring him to justice, even if it means risking her life.
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