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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...
3) 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.
5) 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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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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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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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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c2010
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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...
12) My abandonment
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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.
14) 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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"Science raises questions only love can answer in this moving and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) life-changing fiction. One frozen embryo. Two families with life-long secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again. Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents...
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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.
17) Hand of Fate
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Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically when poisonous gas fills the studio while his polarizing show, "The hand of fate," is on the air. In the ensuing panic, police evacuate downtown Portland--and the triple threat of FBI Special Agent Nicole hedges, crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, and Federal prosecutor Allison Pierce begin piecing together the madness, motive, and mystery of what just happened.--From publisher's description.
18) After Dark
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An investigation into the murder of an Oregon State Supreme Court Justice unearths a bizarre maze of corruption and assassination in this gripping legal thriller.
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
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"Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know - what she can't know - is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete...
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[2019]
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Fleeing to Oregon from New York City in 1921, Alice James takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence, and navigate painful secrets.
"The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City...