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61) Till
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley₂s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie₂s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother₂s ability to change the world.
62) Dark room
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2008, c2007
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On Christmas Eve seventeen years ago, Morgan Winter was traumatized by the discovery of her parents' brutally murdered bodies in a Brooklyn basement. When shocking new evidence overturns the killer's conviction, Morgan is forced to face the horrifying realization that the real killer is still out there. Trapped between past nightmares and present danger, she hires Pete Montgomery, the former NYPD detective who once promised the helpless young Morgan...
63) The nothing man
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2020.
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"I was the girl who survived The Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him. At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man---the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down...
64) Silencing Eve
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"This is the finale that fans have been waiting for. In Taking Even, the game began. In Hunting Eve, the chase was on. Now, in Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will Eve Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her? And will the secrets of Eve's past ultimately become her undoing? In Silencing Eve, all the questions will be answered in a shocking, you never saw it coming conclusion. Iris Johansen's 2012 trilogy, Eve, Quinn, Bonnie...
65) Flores cortadas
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2016.
Description
"Han pasado dos décadas desde que Julia, la hermana mayor de Claire y Lydia, desapareció sin dejar rastro a los 19 años. Tiempo después, ellas dejaron de comunicarse y tomaron caminos opuestos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos se había recuperado del horror y la tristeza de su tragedia compartida: una herida atroz que se reabrió cruelmente al morir asesinado el esposo de Claire. ¿Qué relación podía haber entre ambos hechos?"
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As police evacuate a fire-threatened Los Angeles neighborhood, they discover the corpse of an apparent suicide. More gruesome is what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven murdered women. The suicide is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders. Lionel Byrd had been tried for the murder of Yvonne Bennett. It was Elvis Cole's discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Byrd to walk free. But the discovery of the album shows...
67) Saving Ruby King
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it's a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy. Their closeness is tested when Layla's father, the pastor of their church, demands...
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[2004], c1995, c1967
Description
Fred Fitch is a man who is both pure of heart and substance but utterly credulous. If there is a scam operating anywhere--his rooming house where the General needs a loan to print his revelation of the secret history of the government, the street where the Little Sisters of the Poor are raising funds for the homeless, or just about anywhere in between--Fred finds it or it finds Fred to the same uncertain end. Fred even has his own contact, Reilly,...
69) Sandrine's case
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Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He was a meek, stuffy doctorate student and she a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talents. On the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil: jobs at the same small liberal arts college, a precocious young daughter, a home filled with art and literature, and trips to some of the world's most beautiful cities and towns. And then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed,...
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Walker family volume 1
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Diana Ladd's life stopped six years ago when her husband killed himself after being accused of the brutal rape and murder of a young Indian woman. Working among Native American children in the peace of the open desert, Diana has just begun to put her life back together. Now a ruthless, psychotic killer blames Diana for the time he spent in prison, and he is out to destory her. Andrew Carlisle has been let out on parole, and he is determined that both...
72) Silent mercy
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Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a beautiful house of worship originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Alex wonders if the fire was meant to destroy the body, or to draw attention to it. A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection between the victims...
73) Locked Rooms
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 22
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"Haunted by her dreams, Mary Russell arrives in San Francisco in 1924 to settle her parents' estate. But she quickly encounters a few surprises and learns there may be a great deal more to her childhood in this city than she ever knew. As Mary tries to cobble the pieces of her shadowy past together, her husband Holmes wonders if she may be repressing vital memories. And one thing seems certain--someone wants Mary's remembrances to stay buried."
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Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay. A delicate silver necklace, a handful of ancient pearls, and a priceless figurine rest with her. Twenty-nine years is a long time to wait for a proper burial. Faye Longchamp-Mantooth, who runs a small and shakily financed archaeological consulting firm with her husband, Joe, has come to Sylacauga so she and Joe can join his father,...
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Lucky Santangelo series volume 7
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Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is a personal assistant to a powerful and very married senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestro--the daughter of two movie stars--has carved out a career for herself in New York as the madam of choice for discerning famous men. The three of them went to high school together in Beverly Hills, and although Denver and Carolyn...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 30
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Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don't get solved, and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end, one even Alex Delaware's expert insight can't explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case, because...
80) Justice for Sara
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When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had...