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Who killed christopher goodman

Allan Wolf - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by a tragic true event in his past, Allan Wolf examines the circumstances of one boy's inexplicable murder and the fateful summer leading up to it.Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and...
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Trouble Is a Friend of Mine

Stephanie Tromly - Speak
Format: Hardcover

Sherlock meets Veronica Mars meets Riverdale in this romance where the leading man is decidedly unromantic, and crime novel where catching the crook isnt the only hook.. Of course Zoe Webster didnt like Philip Digby when she first met him. No one does! Hes rude and he treats her like...
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The Lost and the Found

Cat Clarke - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Fans of Lucy Christopher's Stolen, Caroline B. Cooney's The Face on the Milk Carton, and Natasha Preston's The Cellar will be captivated by this twisty psychological thriller about an abducted girl who finally returns home to her family - but is she really who she claims...
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No Such Person

Caroline B. Cooney - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, comes a new riveting page-turner.Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible--but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical...
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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes,...
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Ink and Ashes

Valynne E. Maetani - Tu Books
Format: Print book

Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other. Struggling to understand why her parents...
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The Oxford Inheritance: A Novel

Ann A. McDonald - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The Oxford Inheritance Ann A. McDonald Black is the badge of hell / the hue of dungeons and the School of Night . . . When Cassie Blackwell arrives at the illustrious Raleigh College at Oxford, she hasn t come for the academics, the ivy-covered archways, or even the pub crawls and formal...
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These shallow graves

Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which...
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Bubba Done It

Margaret Toussaint - Five Star Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Amateur sleuth and dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called in on a stabbing case. She arrives in time to hear the dying man whisper, Bubba done it.Four men named Bubba in Sinclair County, Georgia, have close ties to the victim, including her goofball brother-in-law, Bubba Powell.She dreamwalks...
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Wink Poppy Midnight

April Genevieve Tucholke - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. Every story needs a hero....
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This Is Where the World Ends

Amy Zhang - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

A heart-wrenching novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world from Amy Zhang, the critically acclaimed Indies Introduce and Indie Next author of Falling into Place.Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it's been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivien...
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Are You Still There

Sarah Lynn Scheerger - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Print book

Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb and she is hiding. The bomb is defused but the would-be-bomber is still at large. And everyone at Central High School...
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Where They Found Her: A Novel

Kimberly McCreight - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An idyllic suburban town.A devastating discovery.Shocking revelations that will change three lives forever.At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of a newborn is found in the woods fringing the campus of the town's prestigious university. No one knows...
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Before He Finds Her

Michael Kardos
Format: Print book

Read the first page and kiss the next 24 hours goodbye. Bravo!" --Jeffery Deaver, internationally bestselling author of The Skin Collector"Big Breakout Author" for February 2015 --Library JournalEveryone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday...
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Under a Silent Moon: A Novel

Elizabeth Haynes - Harper
Format: Hardcover

P. D. James meets E. L. James in Under a Silent Moon, this first novel in an exciting British crime seriesa blend of literary suspense and page-turning thriller that introduces formidable Detective Chief Inspector Louisa Smithfrom suspense talent Elizabeth Haynes, author of the bestselling...
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Bone Gap

Laura Ruby - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist * Printz Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book of the Year"Rubys novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library JournalEveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.So when young, beautiful Roza went missing,...
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Fiendish

Brenna Yovanoff - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten. Now she's out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why. When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend....
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This Is How It Ends

Jen Nadol - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

If you could see the future, would you want to After the disturbing visions Riley and his friends see turn out to be more than hallucinations, fate takes a dangerous twist in this dark and suspenseful page-turner. Riley and his friends are gearing up for their senior year by spending one last...
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How to Fall: A Novel

Jane Casey - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Jess Tennant has never met any of her relatives, until her mom suddenly drags her out of London to spend the summer in the tiny English town where her familys from. Her moms decision is surprising, but even more surprising is the towns reaction to Jess. Everywhere she goes,...
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Welcome to the Dark House

Laurie Faria Stolarz - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Whats your worst nightmare? For Ivy Jensen, its the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, its bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams. And for seven essay contestants, its their worst nightmares that win them an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at director...
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Feral

Holly Schindler - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The Lovely Bones meets Black Swan in this haunting psychological thriller with twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very last page.Its too late for you. Youre dead. Those words continue to haunt Claire Cain months after she barely survived a brutal beating in Chicago....
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Forget Me

K.A. Harrington - G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Format: Print book

Two names. One face. A dangerous secret exposed. Morgan never minded her boyfriend Flynn's dark and private nature. She found it mysterious and alluring. But now he's dead, and she can't move on. She feels much like her dying town, River's End, with its overgrown amusement park and abandoned...
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Buzz Kill

Beth Fantaskey - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Putting the dead in deadlineTo Bee or not to Bee? When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, 17-year-old Millie is determined to investigate. She is chasing a lead for the school newspaper - and looking to clear her father, the assistant coach, and prime...
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The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery (Point Last Seen, 1)

April Henry - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her moms mental illness, Nicks bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that doesnt understand her. When the three teens...
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The Rules for Breaking

Ashley Elston - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Anna Boyd almost lost her life to get what she wanted most in the world freedom. But just when it seems that her family has finally escaped Witness Protection, the illusion that Anna could resume a normal life comes crashing down. The deadly man Anna knows as Thomas is still on the loose,...
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Blythewood

Carol Goodman - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Blythewood. At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mother, survived a horrific factory fire, and escaped from an insane asylum. Now she's on her way to Blythewood Academy, the elite boarding school in New York's mist-shrouded Hudson Valley that her mother attended...
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Going Rogue: an Also Known As novel

Robin Benway - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its moments, good and bad, for 16-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. Pros: More quality time with her former mark-turned-boyfriend Jesse Oliver and insanely cool best friend, Roux. Getting to spend...
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Night School

C. J. Daugherty - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Night School, the first book in a series of darkly romantic YA thrillers set in a British boarding school, is generating excitement around the world.When Allie Sheridan gets arrestedagainher parents have had enough. They send Allie to the Cimmeria Academy far away from her London friends....
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The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

April Henry - Holt & Company
Format: Print book

"Take her out back and finish her off."She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run.In her riveting style, April...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

April Genevieve Tucholke - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand...Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White's sleepy, seaside town...until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet's crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins...
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The Ruining

Anna Collomore - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Annie Phillips is thrilled to leave her past behind and begin a shiny new life on Belvedere Island, as a nanny for the picture-perfect Cohen family. In no time at all, she falls in love with the Cohens, especially with Libby, the beautiful young matriarch of the family. Life is better than...
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Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
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Beautiful Lies

Jessica Warman - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Rachel and Alice are an extremely rare kind of identical twins-so identical that even their aunt and uncle, whom theyve lived with since their parents passed away, cant tell them apart. But the sisters are connected in a way that goes well beyond their surfaces when one experiences pain,...
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Secret Letters

Leah Scheier - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover

Inquisitive and observant, Dora dreams of escaping her aristocratic country life to solve mysteries alongside Sherlock Holmes. So when she learns that the legendary detective might be her biological father, Dora jumps on the opportunity to travel to London and enlist his help in solving...
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Zoe Letting Go

Nora Price - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

When the truth about her past is disclosedthe effect works like gangbusters.New York Times Book ReviewA girls letters to her best friend reveal two lives derailed by anorexia in this haunting debut thats Laurie Halse Andersons Wintergirls meets The Sixth Sense.Zoe knows she doesnt belong...
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Between

Jessica Warman - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Valchar-pretty, popular, and perfect-wakes up the morning after her eighteenth birthday party on her familys yacht, where shed been celebrating with her six closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, what she finds will change everything...
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The Night She Disappeared

April Henry - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part time as a delivery girl at Pete's Pizza. One night, Kayla -- another delivery girl -- goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working that night. Gabie can't move beyond...
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The Illusion of Murder

Carol McCleary - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

History, mystery, murder and magic accompany Nellie Bly Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist as she takes up a challenge by Jules Verne to beat the eighty days it took his fictional hero Phileas Fogg to race around the world. Nellie tacklesthe journey--alone, with a single...
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The Lord Is My Shepherd: The Psalm 23 Mysteries #1

Debbie Viguie - Abingdon Press
Format: Paperback

Cindy's church is getting ready to celebrate Easter, and Jeremiah's Temple is preparing for Passover when Cindy literally stumbles over the body of an unknown man lying dead in the sanctuary. The church was locked, and a bloody cross necklace on the floor seems to be the only clue. The killer...
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel

Nancy Pickard - Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents houseor what she calls her parents house, even though Jay and Laurie Jo Linder have been gone almost all of Jodys life....
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Paper Towns

John Green - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion picture When...
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Shade Me

Jennifer Brown - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

The first book in bestselling author Jennifer Brown's thrilling suspense series for fans of Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars, Shade Me is about a unique girl who becomes entangled in a mysterious crime and lured into a sexy but dangerous relationship with a boy who may be a suspect. Nikki...
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This is Our Story

Ashley Elston - Hyperion
Format: Print book

No one knows what happened that morning at River Point. Five boys went hunting. Four came back. The boys won't say who fired the shot that killed their friend, Grant; the evidence shows it could have been any one of them. Kate Marino's senior year internship at the District Attorney's Office...
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Splinter

Sasha Dawn - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Sami hasn't seen her mother in ten years and neither has anyone else. The police suspect Sami's father had something to do with her mom's disappearance, but Sami's never believed that. Her mother chose to abandon her and start a new life. It's that simple.But now, evidence...
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