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Strangers in time / by Baldacci, David,author.;
"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via "Operation Pied Piper," Molly has been away from her parents-from her home-for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other-over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen-they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost. But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive-something so shocking it resulted in her death, and his life being turned upside down. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Bookstores; Interpersonal relations; Orphans; Secrecy; Survival; World War, 1939-1945;

Strangers in time [text (large print)] / by Baldacci, David,author.;
"Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via "Operation Pied Piper," Molly has been away from her parents-from her home-for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other-over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen-they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost. But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive-something so shocking it resulted in her death, and his life being turned upside down. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Bookstores; Interpersonal relations; Orphans; Secrecy; Survival; World War, 1939-1945;

The perfect stranger : a novel / by Miranda, Megan,author.;
"In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend's life for clues, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends, family, or a digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah's credibility is at stake, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey--and along the way, confront her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own name. Everyone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to hide--including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are busy hiding your own?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Female friendship; Women journalists;

The perfect stranger [sound recording] : a novel / by Miranda, Megan,author.; Ross, Rebekkah,1975-narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Rebekkah Ross."In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend's life for clues, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends, family, or a digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah's credibility is at stake, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey--and along the way, confront her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own name. Everyone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to hide--including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are busy hiding your own?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Missing persons; Female friendship; Women journalists;

The Noel stranger : from the Noel collection / by Evans, Richard Paul,author.;
Still reeling from a scandal that ended her marriage, Maggie Walther finds renewal in a relationship with the kind man who owns the local Christmas tree lot and is also starting his life over, but just as she begins to trust him, she discovers a dark secret from his past.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Christmas; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships;

Stranger things. [graphic novel] / by Moreci, Michael,author.; Hristov, Todor(Comics artist),illustrator.; Piekos, Nate,letterer.; Segala, Francesco,colourist.;
"Captain Jacoby is too broke to reject a shady deal from a group of Russians looking to get from Alaska back to Kamchatka on his freighter ship, The Persophone, but things get turned upside down when a crew member gets butchered. The captain and his crew suspect something far stranger at play"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Horror comics.; Monster comics.; Paranormal comics.; Science fiction comics.; Cargo ships; Monsters; Ocean travel;

Strangers in paradise / by Dunlop, Barbara.;
Arriving in Paradise, Alaska, to invest in a new business, self-made entrepreneur Parker Hall meets his match in a fierce, beautiful pilot who both fights and fascinates him, distracting him from the task at hand.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Women air pilots; Businessmen; Man-woman relationships;

Strangers she knows / by Dodd, Christina,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: WHAT DOESN'T KILL HER, ISBN 9781335005786. Christina Dodd returns with with the finale in the 'Cape Code' trilogy. Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California means safety from the murderer who hunts Kellen Adams and her new family. Or does it? Family time becomes terror-time, and at last, alone, Kellen faces a killer playing a cruel game. Only one can survive, and Kellen knows who must win and who must die.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Amnesiacs; Islands; Murder; Murderers;

Talking to strangers / by Barton, Fiona,author.;
"Detective Elise King's investigation into a woman's murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing. When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine's Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest society's violence against women. Into the divide comes Kiki Nunn, whose aggressive newsgathering once again antagonizes Elise. A single mother of a young daughter, Kiki is struggling to make a living in the diminished news landscape. Getting a scoop in the Simmons murder would do a lot for her career, and she's willing to go up against not just Elise but the killer himself to do it"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Murderers; Reporters and reporting; Single mothers; Women detectives; Women journalists; Women;

Three identical strangers [videorecording] / by Wardle, Tim,film director.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Editor, Michael Harte ; original score, Paul Saunderson ; director of photography, Tim Cragg.Robert Shafran, Edward Galland, David Kellman.The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some mature thematic material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Shafran, Robert Douglas.; Galland, Edward.; Kellman, David.; Brothers.; Human experimentation in psychology.; Nature versus nurture.; Triplets.; Environment versus heredity; Social determinants; Biological determinants;
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