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"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...
42) Hanging curve
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Mickey Rawlings mysteries volume 6
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A Race To Stay Alive
1922. Another year, another team. Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is now warming the pine for the St. Louis Browns, a team poised to go all the way. Rawlings should be overjoyed with the situation but the lack of playing time has him sneaking off to play incognito in the semi-pros. The competition is just as rough, though. In fact, some of the best players to ever throw a curveball or line up for a swing are his opponents....
43) Talk to me
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Despite being deaf as, a result of, a fireworks explosion, CEO of a St. Louis non-profit company, Noel Richardson, expertly navigates the hearing world. What some view as a disability, Noel views as a challenge-his lack of hearing has never held him back.
It also helps that he has great looks, numerous university degrees, and full bank accounts. But, those assets don't define him as a man who longs for the right woman in his life.
Deciding to visit...
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Old money and tradition are the hallmarks of the St. Louis prep school that Kiki's daughter Anya attends. But the elite academy is stamped with scandal when Anya find the body of a teacher in the elegant theater-- and may have seen the killer. Fearing Anya is in danger, Kiki sifts through the school's many shocking secrets to pin down the murderer.
45) The assailant
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 3
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CO-ED SLAIN. That's the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi River, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he's stuck without any leads until a second body-also strangled-turns up across town and he knows he's chasing a monster.
A talented doctor with an otherwise ordinary and enviable life, Raymond Sheffield has some...
46) Guilty of love
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When do you know the most important decision of your life is the right one?
Reaping the seeds from what she's sown; Cheney Reynolds moves into a historic neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri, and becomes reclusive.
Her first neighbor, the incomparable Mrs. Beatrice Tilley Beacon aka Grandma BB, is an opinionated childless widow. Grandma BB is a self-proclaimed expert on topics Cheney isn't seeking advice-everything from landscaping to hip-hop dancing...
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Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever. Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in...
48) Played!: a novel
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"Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor ... Milton's younger brother Hal is his polar opposite--strikingly handsome, a high-school baseball legend in St. Louis who was on his way to the major leagues until he destroyed his prospects in a motorcycle accident ... But the lives of both brothers are about to...
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Best-selling author Omar Tyree has written such popular novels as For the Love of Money, A Do Right Man, and Flyy Girl. Sweet St. Louis is a compelling story of looking for love--and trying to hold onto it. Anthony "Ant" Poole is a player. He tries his latest pickup line, "A piece of me for a piece of you," on Sharron Francis. Sharron is intrigued, yet she's looking for something more meaningful--and a commitment. With a little bit of fine tuning,...
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 2
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Lieutenant George Hastings, a cool-headed, quick-thinking police detective, leapt to the forefront of the St. Louis Police Department when two beat cops were gunned down, and he led the joint FBI/police taskforce that caught the killer.
Now he is back at work with the FBI on a new case: Cordelia Penmark, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped and her boyfriend callously executed outside of a posh holiday party for his law firm.
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52) Believe no one
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Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms is in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD. She is working with a 'method swap' team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore also happens to be in the States on a book tour and is engineering his trip to get down to St Louis--the last thing Simms wants . . . But a call for help from a sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma distracts the professor: a mother dead, her...
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Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 4
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St. Louis Police Lt. George Hastings is loyal to the people under his command. When they're right, he backs them all the way. Sometimes it gets him in trouble. So after a round of butting heads with the top brass, Hastings and his team catch a lousy detail-keeping an eye on Senator Alan Preston, a political star looking to storm the national stage in the upcoming presidential elections.
There's only one problem with Preston's plans. It seems that...
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"With astonishing lyrical beauty and dramatic intensity, Ntozake Shange tells the story of thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, a colored girl poised between the enchanted world of childhood and the passionate promises, romantic and political, of the adult world. Set in the colored community of St. Louis in 1959, the year school integration disrupted everybody's lives, Shange's story traces the stress lines created in black families not only by racism...
55) Sheer gall
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A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library
In a city full of strangers, be careful whom you trust…
Shanghai, 1935. Black sheep gentleman sleuth Rowland Sinclair arrives with his bohemian housemates from Sydney, Australia to explore a new city and take the name Sinclair international with a new class of negotiations. A novice to global commerce, Rowland is under strict instructions...
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Storm Kayama and her partner Ian Hamlin are excited to get away from Honolulu for the weekend. While they will both be doing work on this trip, it is a much needed break from the routine. Storm is supposed to check on an old friendas diabetic son. This should be easy, but when the boyas mother, Jenny Williams, turns up dead, Storm must find the boy before the murderers do.
In the meantime, Ian is investigating the disappearance of Brock Liu, the...
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Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a...
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Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married. Since, she has become a mother, then a much grieving widow, and now she is embroiled in a lost cause --the Frankenstein Case --where she represents a blue collar neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a swanky gated community. Who is pushing her here? Of course, her mother. Rachels strategy...
60) Pretty wanted
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Willa and fellow troublemaker Aidan race to St. Louis to find answers about her true identity, which is tied to a decades-old murder case.
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