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When TV network journalist Corina Corado's six-year-old son and husband vanish while walking through Central Park, detectives uncover shocking family secrets as a bombshell revelation surfaces online alleging the boy never belonged to the couple at all.
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Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Farley stands out among his Iñupiat neighbors in the Alaska village he calls home, both white and enormous, like the hungry polar bears that wander its streets. Jovial and a little hapless, he works as an investigator for a North Slope oil company, passing the long Arctic winters drinking whiskey with the village's preacher and playing in the weekly poker game hosted by its matriarch and mayor. When his young daughter visits from thousands of miles...
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MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Children of an impoverished woodcutter Hansel and Gretel get lost in the forest after birds have eaten the trail of breadcrumbs that was supposed to show them the way back home. They arrive at a strange house made entirely of gingerbread. The resident turns out to be a malicious witch who is extremely excited to fatten Hansel up so she can then put him on her menu...
4) Way far away
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as "one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades." In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jerem©Ưas Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of a rotten hotel and the dwarf who always accompanies her; children who play with...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"I don't know who you are or why you've come here,' I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. 'But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.' Fourteen years ago, our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don't picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks. I only looked away for a second, and I have never forgiven myself....
6) The liar
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Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 3
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When wealthy businessman Leonard Howell's daughter is kidnapped, the police jump on it straight away. But Howell knows this won't be straightforward - he needs someone willing to break the rules. Once a con artist, now a hotshot lawyer, Eddie Flynn's learnt that fast talk and sleight of hand are just as important in the courtroom are they are on the street. Knowing what it's like to lose a daughter, he'll stop at nothing to save Howell's. With a client...