Claire and the Mystery of the Missing Bear

Claire and the Mystery of the Missing Bear
Author: C. A. Jameson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978336995

There's a mystery in Christmastown. Griz is missing, and Claire and the Penguin Detective Agency are on the case! Join them as they visit many animal friends during their investigation. Each animal provides a clue to help Claire and her penguin pals. Will Claire find Griz and solve the mystery of the missing bear? This delightful story makes a great gift for any child, but especially for a "Claire" because she is the star of this book, and her name is featured throughout. Note that this book is available with many other popular names! COMPANION BOOKS: Claire and the Christmas Bell & Claire and the Mystery of the Missing Bear Coloring Book AND Claire and the Christmas Bell.

The Bear

The Bear
Author: Claire Cameron
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448155738

Longlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize Mummy never yells. Mostly not ever. Except sometimes. Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is almost three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. It's the perfect family trip. But then Anna awakes in the night to the sound of something moving in the shadows. Her father is terrified. Her mother is screaming. Then, silence. Alone in the woods, it is Anna who has to look after Stick, battling hunger and the elements to stay alive. Narrated by Anna, this is white-knuckle storytelling that captures the fear, wonder and bewilderment of our worst nightmares - and the power of one girl's enduring love for her family.

Finding Claire Fletcher

Finding Claire Fletcher
Author: Lisa Regan
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781542046107

Newly divorced and with his career in jeopardy, Detective Connor Parks takes solace in the arms of a beautiful woman he meets at a bar. The next morning, Claire Fletcher is gone, leaving nothing behind but an address and a decade-old mystery. The address leads to the Fletcher family home where Claire's siblings inform Connor that their fifteen-year-old sister was abducted from a city street ten years ago and is presumed dead. During those ten years, Claire endured the cruel torture and depravity of the man who abducted her. Paralyzed by fear and too ashamed to return to her family, Claire is resigned to her life as Lynn, the identity her abductor forced upon her. Every time she attempts escape or betrays him in the smallest way, someone dies. Even now, her clandestine run-in with Connor Parks may have put his life at risk, as well as the lives of her family. Connor is convinced that not only is Claire Fletcher alive, but that she is also the woman he met at the bar. Driven to see her again, he begins his own investigation, off the clock and without the police department's consent. He is determined to find her and unravel the mystery of her abduction and odd reemergence. But finding Claire Fletcher proves more dangerous than he anticipates. In fact, it may be deadly.

Claire de Lune

Claire de Lune
Author: Christine Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-05-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442406410

At Claire Benoit’s sixteenth birthday party, all anyone can talk about are the recent werewolf attacks that have ravaged her town. Claire, however, is more interested in the flirtations of soccer god Matthew Engle, who graciously ignores the mysterious rash on her hands and ears. His attentions are the highlight of her evening—until she transforms into a werewolf! After learning she’s the latest in a long line of she-wolves, Claire is compelled to help her pack find and defeat the rogue werewolf who’s been killing humans—but she must keep her lupine identity a secret from her new boyfriend Matthew, whose father hunts her kind.

City of the Dead

City of the Dead
Author: Sara Gran
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571259197

New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences and those who can't are slain daily on the streets. And it's there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one. From the acclaimed author of Dope and Come Closer, City of the Dead is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following. Only a writer with a life as unusual as Sara Gran's - she was in New York City on 9/11/2001 and evacuated from her home in New Orleans on 8/29/2005 - could have written such an extraordinary look at modern-day New Orleans.

Camila and the Mystery of the Missing Bear

Camila and the Mystery of the Missing Bear
Author: C. A. Jameson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978334731

There's a mystery in Christmastown. Griz is missing, and Camila and the Penguin Detective Agency are on the case! Join them as they visit many animal friends during their investigation. Each animal provides a clue to help Camila and her penguin pals. Will Camila find Griz and solve the mystery of the missing bear? This delightful story makes a great gift for any child, but especially for a "Camila" because she is the star of this book, and her name is featured throughout. Note that this book is available with many other popular names! COMPANION BOOKS: Camila and the Christmas Bell & Camila and the Mystery of the Missing Bear Coloring Book AND Camila and the Christmas Bell.

Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things

Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things
Author: Kathryn Burak
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1596438347

When Claire's best friend Richy went missing, he disappeared without a trace. But when Emily Dickinson's dress goes missing from the Amherst museum, she knows exactly where it is: in her closet. As Claire and her student teacher, Tate, attempt to figure out what do to about the dress, they begin to uncover the truth behind Richy's disappearing act. Following a trail of clues across state lines, Claire and Tate attempt to find the person that Claire knows is responsible for his disappearance.

The Missing Corpse

The Missing Corpse
Author: Jean-Luc Bannalec
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250173361

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." —M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany "Very satisfying...along the lines of Martin Walker’s novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth’s Aix-en-Provence mysteries." —Booklist on Murder on Brittany Shores The Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author, Jean-Luc Bannalec’s fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. It’s picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most difficult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults.

Claire of the Sea Light

Claire of the Sea Light
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385349688

From the national bestselling author of Brother, I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker: a “fiercely beautiful” novel (Los Angeles Times) that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing. Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.