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Public enemies

Aiden and Meg set out to prove their parents are not criminals as the are chased from state to state by the FBI and a killer called Hairless Joe.

The grin in the dark

A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.

Breaking news

bears to the rescue
In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bears and their cub catch two escaping prisoners who are hiding at the carnival.

Chasing Lincoln's killer

Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, with a discussion of Abraham Lincoln as a father, husband, and friend that examines the impact of his death on those close to him.

Sting

2016
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes at a dive bar, there are definitely sparks, but Shaw has other plans and abducts Jordie, hoping to get his hands on the millions of dollars her brother has stolen.

The last narco

inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord
2010
A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world---Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman---and tells the full story of the drug trade over the past thirty years.
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Unwind

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs, and, perhaps, save their own lives.

The future is written

a Sarah Roberts story
2018
When Sarah Roberts blacks out, she wakes to find prophetic notes mysteriously written by her own hand. After receiving a message that someone is about to be kidnapped with instructions on how to stop it, Sarah's convinced it won't be hard to do. She is wrong. The kidnappers take Sarah instead. She's thwarted them in the past, and they want to know how she keeps showing up where she has no business being. Sarah needs help from the police, but they're hunting her for a different reason. They found her notebook riddled with prophetic messages, linking her to crimes and unsolved cases. Is she a vigilante keeping score? Or on a citywide crime spree? Several years ago, someone murdered Sarah's sister, Vivian. Now, communicating with Sarah from the other side, they'll hunt the man who did it and the people who would do it again--to Sarah.

They never came back

When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
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Wild rover no more

being the last recorded account of the life and times of Jacky Faber
"In 1809, just when it looks like Jacky Faber and her beloved Jaimy will finally find their romance, Jacky is accused of treason and must flee Boston while her friends attempt to clear her name. Of course that means wild adventures for our fun-loving heroine, who manages to secure a job as a governess--and run away with the circus"--Provided by publisher.

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