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Daniel Ames is a young associate at Portland's top law firm. When a charismatic civil litigator sues the firm's biggest client for manufacturing a drug that allegedly causes birth defects, Daniel is certain the claim has no merit. But when he begins to investigate, his work is sabotaged, he's accused of professional incompetence, and he's fired. Twelve hours later, he's arrested for murder. Scrambling to clear his name and save his reputation, Daniel...
2) Wildwood
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Wildwood chronicles volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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Adria Nash meets with skepticism when she arrives at the home of the wealthy Danvers family intent on proving she is London Danvers, the heiress kidnapped many years earlier as a child, but she soon comes to realize there is someone does believe her--and is not at all pleased she has been found.
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When the cousin of L.A. crime boss Hugo Poole is found shot to death, the man's missing girlfriend, Tanya Starling, becomes the prime suspect. As Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes investigates the crime, she discovers that her search has become complicated by the parallel probe of P.I. Joe Pitt and by a deceptive killer who is becoming more efficient and elusive with each murder
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River levels are high in Portland when a woman walking her dog comes across the skeleton of a young black man, murdered over fifty years ago. Journalist, Susan Ward investigates. Meanwhile, Detective Archie Sheridan and his team have turned their attention to child-killer Ryan Motley, trained by the notorious Gretchen Lowell. The task force must pursue a series of mysterious clues from Gretchen, one of which leads to a Vanport flood survivor, who...
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Mark Holbrook was a legend. A tall, rugged, imposing legend. He'd won a Pulitzer, interviewed kings and queens, presidents and movie stars. Carly Barnett, on the other hand, was a former-beauty-queen-turned-advice-columnist. Not exactly on the same level. Still, Carly was determined to prove that she was more than a pretty face. Mark wasn't sure the beautiful and spirited Carly had what it took to be a reporter, but he was sure that he wanted her....
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.
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You're jilted at the altar. How could your day possibly get any worse? But being left at the altar saved Nina's life--the church was empty when the explosion took place. Then a stranger tries to run her off the road and Nina realizes that someone is determined to kill her. It's Detective Sam Navarro's job to find out who, and put a stop to the terrifying nightmare unfolding all around them.
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Matt Mikalatos liked Jesus a lot. In fact, he couldn't believe how much they had in common. They shared the same likes, dislikes, beliefs, and opinions. (Though Jesus did have better hair.) So imagine Matt's astonishment when he finds out that the guy he knows as Jesus . . . isn't. He's an Imaginary Jesus: a comfortable, convenient imitation Matt has created in his own image. The real Jesus is still out there somewhere . . . and Matt is determined...
10) Heartsick
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Portland detective Archie Sheridan, kidnapped and tortured for ten days by Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer he had hunted for ten years, is having trouble coming to grips with his life since Lowell released him and turned herself in, but he knows he must pull himself together when another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the street.
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Cal Claxton mysteries volume 1
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Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself from an L.A. prosecutor to a small town lawyer when a tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder.
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Naomi Cottle novels volume 2
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A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the...
13) Evil at heart
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Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, shes more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers weekly and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre kind of fan club, which celebrates the number of days shes been free. Archie Sheridan hunted...
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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Allie Beckstrom novels volume 8
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When magic itself has been poisoned and her undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman, Allie Beckstrom and her fellow renegades must elude the Authority to find the cure before they are no longer able to stop the sickness from spreading.
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Allie Beckstrom novels volume 4
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Allison Beckstrom is committed to her work tracing illegal spells. Now, there's an apocalyptic storm bearing down on Portland, and when it hits, all the magic in the area will turn unstable and destructive.
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Samantha Kincaid novels volume 2
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[2004]
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An investigation into the disappearance of Portland, Oregon, city judge Clarissa Easterbrook leads Deputy D.A. Samantha Kincaid on the trail of dark secrets from the past and corruption at the highest levels of city power.
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Henry Macke was not afraid. He remembered what the Marshal could not and now the book was his. He would keep it, study it, would never let it go . . . he would do these things and more just as soon as he took care of the other thing buried on the hill. The dead man had waited more than a decade, but his legend was not so easily forgotten. He needed only for the young fool to do what came naturally in the presence of so many beautiful words: read....
19) Perfectly undone
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Dr. Dylan Michaels cannot start married life with her long-time boyfriend Cooper with her sister's death on her conscience, but when Cooper reveals a secret of his own, Dylan is no longer sure of her future happiness.
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