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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
4) Dark places
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Libby Day, still haunted by the day she witnessed the murder of her family on their farm in Kinnakee, Kansas, and twenty-five-years after testifying that her fifteen-year-old brother Ben was the killer, Libby is contacted by the Kill Club and devises a money making scheme that leads her back into a killer's path.
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"Baltimore city Homicide Detective J.D. Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of violence but nothing like the trail of tortured bodies that are turning up throughout the city. And now he's starting to suspect that his medical examiner, Dr. Lucy Trask, may be shielding a dark secret that could connect her to these vicious killings-and put her next on the killer's hit list ..."--Amazon.com.
6) Jack & Jill
9) The guardian
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U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley is called in to protect a young woman who witnessed the murder of a Supreme Court justice, but Marcus finds his ability to do his job compromised when he falls in love with the woman.
11) Catch me
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Charlene Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and while she intends to flee or fight, wants to make sure that if she dies her murder will be investigated by Detective D.D. Warren, Boston's top detective.
13) The paperboy
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Nineteen-year-old Jack James, a delivery boy for his father's Florida newspaper, sets out on a search for truth about a man on death row named Hillary Van Wetter, accompanied by his reporter brother Ward and a young woman who proclaims Van Wetter's innocence--and her love for him--even though she has never met him.
14) Graceling
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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
15) Missing
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Perry Borntrager had been missing for months from the Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky when his body is discovered at the bottom of an abandoned well.
17) Wicked game
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Twenty years after the disappearance of Jessie Brentwood, Detective "Mac" McNally reopens the case when bones are unearthed at Jessie's old school, and soon after Jessie's friends begin to die under suspicious circumstances.
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Sadie Hoffmiller, a suspect in the investigation of the murder of her beautiful young neighbor Anne Lemmon, a single mother killed while a lemon tart was baking in the oven, must find a way to prove her innocence and find Anne's two-year-old son Trevor who has gone missing, presumably with the killer.
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
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