Death without tenure

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Linda Aber

(From the back cover) Tune in for trouble... Barbie's got a great new assignment. She's going backstage at The Battle of the Bands to interview all the pop stars! Her friend Christie is coming with her to take photos for Barbie's article. It's sure to be a blast. But then strange things start happening during rehearsals. It seems like someone is trying to sabotage one of the bands, 4toGo. Is a rival band behind this? One thing's for sure - it's up to Barbie to solve another mystery!

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Denise Mina

Alex Morrow traces a wealthy businesswoman who's vanished from her Glasgow home to a little seaside town, where a dead body in the lake is only one of many clues that all is not as peaceful as it seems.

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Franklin W. Dixon

The boys go on a chilling mission—camping in the woods where children have suddenly begun to disappear. Every time a child disappears, the word "LOST" has appeared outside their tent…and they are never heard from again. The boys think they’ve got things covered; they’re ATAC agents after all. But when an "L" appears outside their tent their first night in the woods, things take a turn for the creepy.

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Susan Wittig Albert

Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper- making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for her. And now China's half- brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved.To put the unsavory business out of her mind, she's gathering supplies for making paper. But in a patch of yucca plants, she finds a body-cause of death unknown. Many residents of Pecan Springs live seemingly simple lives that hide complex and dangerous pasts, and it appears the victim was one of them. Now, while unraveling secrets that hit close to home, China must set the record straight-and find a killer.