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1) Blue heaven
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Twelve-year-old Annie Taylor and her younger brother William go on the run after witnessing a murder by four retired Los Angeles cops in the town of Kootenai Bay, Idaho, and find refuge with rancher Jesse Rawlins who has trouble knowing who to trust with the situation--especially after the killers make a public show of volunteering to "help" local authorities look for the children.
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In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.
The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits...
The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits...
6) What we saw
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"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of a drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"-- Provided by publisher.
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From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...
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On the night of February 12, 1971, three police cruisers and two ambulances raced to the scene of a robbery at a tiny liquor store just outside Washington DC. Inside waited a husband and wife; both bleeding from gunshot wounds. The shooter and three other teenagers were already speeding away; one of them carrying a slug from a thirty-two-caliber revolver in his gut. At the time, though, no one realized that there was someone else waiting there; a...
9) The family
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A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings.
11) The hate u give
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
13) A cold treachery
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In December 1919, when five members of a family are found slaughtered in the kitchen of their Lake District cottage, Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the crime as well as the disappearance of the missing youngest child in the family.
14) Legally dead
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Guilt-ridden for failing to protect two young girls, former U.S. Marshall Michael Venturi draws on his skills with the Witness Protection Program to help people start over with new identities, a private business that goes wrong when someone begins murdering his clients.
15) Angels fall
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Reece Gilmore has been on the run since a brutal crime ruined her life, causing nightmares and panic attacks that leave her desperate for an escape, and when she arrives at the Grand Tetons, she thinks she may have found a sanctuary, until she witnesses a murder that no one believes ever happened.
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As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. The reason: they stood firm in their beliefs and boldly spoke out against the cruelty of Nazism. For this, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses were thrown into Nazi concentration camps. In this video, 10 European and American historians and more than 20 Witness survivors of the period, join in relating their story of courage and triumph...
18) Invincible
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Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson is a Lakota Sioux who stays to himself and never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working with his friend Cash Crier on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of fun: shocking Cash's sweet but traditional secretary, Carlie Blair, with tales of his latest conquests.
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of eight strangers hostage. Each...
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