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1) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of her mother's death, thirty-one-year-old, sexually liberated and economically independent Nikki Eaton comes into a startling realization of her identity as a daughter and experiences a tumultuous year of mourning that gives way to greater wisdom and love.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna...
Publisher
Media Trading Network, inc
Pub. Date
[n.d]
Language
Español
Description
In Los gavilanes negros, the Black Sparrowhawks, legendary defenders of the poor against the wealthy, struggle to free an entire town from the oppression of a tyrannical group, The Brother's Cross.
In La norteña de mis amores, when Carlos was a boy, he witnessed his father murdered while selling cattle. As a grown man, he stands up for the cheated and victimized, until the time comes for a showdown with the gang of thieves and the man who murdered...
Publisher
Vina Distributor
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
When Carlos was a boy, he witnessed his father murdered while selling cattle. As a grown man, he stands up for the cheated and victimized, until the time comes for a showdown with the gang of theives and the man who murdered his father.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a murder in Olso, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz, flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A searing memoir of the author's efforts to understand her late mother's life and murder describes the traumatic loss of her mother in childhood, the 12-year manhunt for the killer and the author's investigations into her mother's past in the dark corners of a small Maine community.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Lucky Santangelo. A fifteen-year-old wild child ready to discover life, love and independence. Daughter of the notorious Gino, Lucky discovers her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool at the tender age of four. Since then Gino has kept her protected from life closeted in their Bel Air mansion. But in Confessions of a Wild Child Lucky finally breaks free, and running away from boarding school the adventures begin. Boys, sex,...
11) The Glass house
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Ruby is devastated when her parents are killed in a tragic car accident. With her younger brother Rhett, Ruby is sent to live with the legal guardians chosen by her parents. The Glasses live in an opulent Malibu mansion where Ruby and Rhett are promised all of the finest luxuries money can buy and a lavish new rich-kid lifestyle. Before long, however, Ruby begins to suspect that her new caretakers are not what they appear on the surface and that the...
12) Sandrine's case
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He's a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she's a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil. Then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed from a deadly overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning her. As the truth of their turbulent marriage comes to light, Samuel must...
13) Pearl diver
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done.
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of...
15) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Picking up a pretty woman, Grace, at his favorite bar, FBI agent Breed Grayhawk is unaware that she has just finished jail time for murdering her parents and is breaking into her late father's colleagues' homes in search of evidence that will clear her name.
17) Cautiva
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
"Cristina Quadri's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that...
18) Lugares oscuros
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron victimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvo la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crimenes célebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...
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