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Kara kitap Kara kitap Orhan Pamuk The Black Book is a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirms Orhan Pamuk's reputation as a writer of international stature, comparable to Borges and Calvino. Galip is… OL1019601W
The Honorary Consul The Honorary Consul Graham Greene In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … OL106068W
Summer's child Summer's child Luanne Rice THERE'S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES...From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love … OL106212W
Island, The Island, The Heather Graham On a weekend vacation with her brother and niece, Beth Anderson is unnerved when a stroll on the beach reveals what appears to be a skull, and instantly recalls the retired couple who disappeared off… OL121777W
Luke on the loose Luke on the loose Harry Bliss A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky. OL13609029W
The unknowns The unknowns Benedict Carey When people start vanishing from a godforsaken trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, two eleven-year-olds investigate using mathematical clues that were hastily planted by their friend Mrs. C… OL13614158W
Beautiful Americans Beautiful Americans Lucy Silag What happens in Paris...Secrets-PJ's deep blue eyes and angelic long blond hair conceal a truth that's anything but. Will her dark past stay where it belongs in the backwoods of Vermont, or haunt her… OL13761788W
[Works [Works Charles Dickens Dickens died before completing his last novel, leaving its mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to try and work out what happened next. OL14869968W
Look again Look again Lisa Scottoline When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the … OL14914141W
A couple of April fools A couple of April fools Gregory Maguire At a Vermont elementary school, April Fools' Day takes on a sinister tone when a teacher goes missing and several suspects emerge, among them the teacher's fiance and a missing mutant chick. OL14915998W
Andy Shane and the barn sale mystery Andy Shane and the barn sale mystery Jennifer Jacobson After Andy hosts a barn sale to raise money for a case for Granny Webb's binoculars, he realizes that they accidentally were sold, so with Dolores's help they try to track down the missing binoculars. OL15033146W
The Vanishing Passenger The Vanishing Passenger Gertrude Chandler Warner,Robert Papp The famous mystery writer, Gilbert Finch, is coming to Greenfield to speak at the library, and the Aldens can't wait to meet him. When they go with Grandfather to pick Finch up at the train station, … OL15061326W
Midnight sun Midnight sun Lisa Tawn Bergren KAATJE JANSSEN--Desperate to know if her missing husband still lives, Kaatje hires the rugged, yet tenderhearted James Walker to guide her through the perils of the Alaskan wilderness. What she final… OL15069405W
Top of the heap Top of the heap Erle Stanley Gardner **Cool & Lam Mystery #13** (1952) John Carver Billings II has a story with more holes in it than the surgeons had to sew up in the torso of recuperating LA Mob boss Gabby Garvanza. On the other ha… OL15096910W
The ghosts of Rathburn Park The ghosts of Rathburn Park Zilpha Keatley Snyder Lost in the woods of Rathburn Park, eleven-year-old Matthew weighs the odds of dying from thirst, embarrassment, or at the hands of the forest's reputed ghostly inhabitants. OL15104809W
Island of Lost Girls Island of Lost Girls Jennifer Mcmahon,Jennifer McMahon While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit cost… OL15166275W
Il Vascello Fantasma Il Vascello Fantasma Elisabetta Dami Nadat professor Van Kraken een lezing heeft gegeven over een gezonken schip, verdwijnt hij. De Thea Sisters gaan op zoek naar de professor en naar het gezonken schip. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 7 jaar, zelf… OL15168086W
Dead Right Dead Right Brenda Novak The people of Stillwater, Mississippi,are asking questions about murder. Again.Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepf… OL15170185W
You Don't Have to be Good You Don't Have to be Good Sabrina Broadbent Bea is in her late forties, has a dead-end job with the Council in Cambridge, and is married to Frank, a feckless would-be writer with extra-mural distractions. Bea's successful sister, Katharine, th… OL15177901W
The Whole Truth The Whole Truth James Scott Bell At the age of five, Steve Conroy saw his seven-year-old brother kidnapped from the very bedroom they shared. His brother was never found. And the guilt of his silence that night has all but destroyed… OL15182162W
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