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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

23) Face value

Author

Collins, Phil

Pub. Date

p1981

24) Black & blue

Author

Backstreet Boys

Pub. Date

p2000

25) His Excellency: George Washington

Author

Ellis, Joseph J

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Book, Audio

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From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand the test of time as the definitive biography of the greatest American icon.

26) Killer smile

Author

Scottoline, Lisa

Series

Rosato and DiNunzio

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Book, Audio, eBook, Kindle

Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on — involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an internment camp during World War II — may not be ancient history after all.

Performed by Kate Burton

27) A bend in the road

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

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Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances — only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown...

28) The Final Detail

Author

Coben, Harlan

Series

Myron Bolitar

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In this sixth novel in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series, Harlan Coben delivers a riveting powerhouse thriller—a twisting mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and murder.
“Sly humor, sophisticated plotting, and solid storytelling.”—Chicago Tribune
Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron...

29) The scarecrow: a novel

Author

Connelly, Michael

Series

Jack McEvoy volume 2

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A 10% happier how-to book

Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.

30) Meditation for fidgety skeptics: a 10% happier how-to book

Author

Harris, Dan

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ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word "namaste" without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents. Here's what he's fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and...

31) Mockingjay: Book 3

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games volume 3

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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge ... and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe!

32) The Sunday philosophy club

Author

McCall Smith, Alexander

Formats

Book, Audio

Description

Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh, she is determined to root out the truth.

33) Circling the sun: a novel

Author

McLain, Paula

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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...

34) The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

Author

Grann, David

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Book, Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization...

35) 2nd chance: a novel

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Women's murder club volume 2

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Indigo Girls (Musical group)

A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously -- or was it intentionally?-- only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D.A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.

36) Swamp Ophelia

Author

Pub. Date

p1994

37) Dead ringer

Author

Scottoline, Lisa

Series

Rosato and DiNunzio

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Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action lawsuit that could make — or break — her career. Never mind that she's never handled anything like this before. Having won nearly every civil and criminal case she's ever tried, the brilliant

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38) Born to run

Author

Springsteen, Bruce

Appears on list

NYT - Celebrities

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The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: "Glorious...a philosophically rich ramble through a rock 'n roll life...It's the lyric he was born to write" (USA TODAY, 4 out of 4 stars).
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is "an utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoir" (Rolling...

39) The bonesetter's daughter

Author

Tan, Amy

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Set in Contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dream, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars

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40) Townie: a memoir

Author

Dubus, Andre

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