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English
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Returning home to Ocean Vista on the Jersey Shore with her teenage daughter and her nine-year-old son Daniel, who has bipolar disorder, Olivia must finally embrace the birthright inherited from her mother, Myla, a beautiful and erratic psychic, when Daniel disappears.
22) The leaf reader
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Language
English
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Description
Outsider Marnie begins reading tea leaves for fun, but when basketball star Matt asks for a reading related to his friend who disappeared, Marnie's readings begin to seem real--and potentially dangerous.
23) The Rainbow Wand
Author
Series
Fairy Realm volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When a little girl from the human world becomes lost in the magical Realm, Jessie's only hope of finding her is the wand of a brilliant but reclusive magician, and if she succeeds she must still face Mrs. Tweedie, who is up to no good.
24) Nails
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
While searching for a missing girl, Gabriel Du Pre? finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of a group of protesting fundamentalist Christians and the return of his precocious granddaughter from school in Washington, D.C.
Author
Series
Tower of winds volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
27) Wildwood
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
28) Eve
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Could John Gallo, a man from Eve?s past, be the missing piece to the puzzle that has haunted her for years? Why was he in Atlanta just before Bonnie?s disappearance? Finally the answers surrounding the disappearance of Eve Duncan?s daughter, Bonnie,will be revealed.
Author
Series
Amara Alvarez volume 1
Language
English
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"San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez discovers that a tragic accident involving a school bus full of kids may not be what it seems. One of the children may still be alive, and if he is, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie"--Provided by publisher.
31) Reservoir 13
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Language
English
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A teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the English moors as the police set up roadblocks and news reporters descend. Meanwhile, there is still work that must be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who...
Author
Series
Trouble (Stephanie Tromly) volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Zoe Webster moves from Brooklyn to upstate New York where she meets the weirdly compelling misfit, Philip Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as he pulls her into his investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl which may be related to the disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago.
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted, or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game.
34) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...
35) The last child
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Series
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English
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After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Omega Morales volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Omega will have to learn to trust her powers once again as she comes face to face with the Mexican legend El Cucuy.
37) Foxglove summer
Author
Series
Rivers of London volume 5
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1939: Fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from London to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the Aberdeen family in a charming stone cottage, Hazel distracts her young sister with a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own: Whisperwood.But the unthinkable happens when Flora vanishes near the banks of the River Thames. Shattered, Hazel blames...
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Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
40) Winter sisters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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When the two young daughters of friends killed in a late-19th-century storm vanish without a trace, a former Civil War surgeon launches a determined rescue effort that is challenged by a community that believes there is no hope and a violin student niece who returns home from Paris with a secret agenda.
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