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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Twenty years after her brother is hounded from his home by rumors about his alleged role in a young girl's disappearance, Lisa and her security guard friend become increasingly curious about a child they glimpse on a mall's surveillance cameras.
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It's Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met - and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal...
84) Royal flush
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To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorceé houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission--namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her...
85) Runner
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In the sixth book of the Jane Whitefield series, Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.
86) Silent killer
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Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere--including Jackson Perdue, the town's deputy sheriff. The spate of recent deaths--each victim burned in the same horrifying manner as her husband--leave Jack and Cathy in no doubt that a serial killer is at work. (Bestseller)
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In 1923, Arapahos from the Wind River Reservation were recruited to appear as extras in the silent film The Covered Wagon, Charlie Wallowingbull never returned home, leaving people to believe he abandoned his wife and unborn son. Kiki Wallowingbull went to Hollywood determined to uncover the truth behind his great-grandfather's disappearance. But Kiki has been murdered--his frozen body discovered by Father John.
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2009
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Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He lives for pleasure and makes no commitments. But no one has ever truly touched his heart or soul. Then a woman appears on his doorstep with a fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt. The baby's mother has abandoned the child to the care of her more responsible sister. And now, it's Jacks turn to take responsibility....
89) Stardust
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Hollywood, 1945: Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find that his brother, Daniel, has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful career in the movies, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Determined to uncover the truth, Ben enters the maze of the studio system and the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business. For this is the moment when politics and the dream factories...
90) The tenth case
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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Large type ed.
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571 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, better known as Jaywalker, has been suspended for using "creative" tactics and receiving "gratitude" in the courtroom stairwell. Convincing the judge that clients are counting on him, Jaywalker is allowed to complete ten cases. The last truly tests his abilities. Sexy young Samara Moss stabbed her elderly billionaire husband in the heart. Or so everyone believes. But Jaywalker knows appearances can be...
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"PI Mac Reilly, the star of TV's Mac Reilly's Malibu Mysteries, and his fiancée, Sunny Alvarez, are looking forward to spending June at Chez La Violette, a villa they've rented in St. Tropez. Sunny arrives first, only to discover that they've been scammed, along with a number of others who thought they were renting a fancy house on the French Riviera, among them Belinda Lord, the estranged wife of a Russian mobster, and widower Billy Bashford, a...
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Sir Alistair Munroe, horribly maimed during his service in the French and Indian War, lives a near solitary existence in a crumbling Scottish castle until Helen Fitzwilliam, former mistress of the Duke of Lister, and her two children arrive one night and change his life forever. When the Duke steals his children away from Helen, forcing her to reveal her true past to Alistair, and a friend from Alistair's army past is back from the dead--and quite...
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Reynaud St. Aubyn escapes after seven hellish years as a captive of the Wyandot Indians in the Colonies and now has one purpose: to take revenge on the traitor who put him there. Beatrice Corning manages her uncle's various homes and attends boring dances and none of the callow youths available engage her interest. At least not like the painting of the mysterious Reynaud St. Aubyn, who was tragically killed seven years ago. Imagine her shock when...
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The ton loves nothing more than a good scandal, and they're giddy with the appearance of wealthy Samuel Hartley. Not only is he self-made, American, and in the habit of wearing moccasins, but he is also notorious for fleeing a battle in which several English gentlemen lost their lives. What the ton doesn't know is that Samuel is in London because of this massacre. He believes his regiment was given up to the enemy, and won't rest until he finds the...
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Washington is full of doubt on the night of December 25, 1776. His army's morale is dangerously low. Each morning muster shows that hundreds have deserted during the night. The revolutionary spirit that burned so bright during the summer seems to be flickering out in the face of a harsh winter and repeated defeats. As a fierce winter storm blows down the river, the capture of General Charles Lee, the flight of the continental Congress from Philadelphia...
96) Top producer
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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Large type ed.
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597 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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In the fast-moving world of finance, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. In their blurred vision of reality, scams can be disguised as success and plotting mistaken for killer instincts. But this book isn't about stocks and bonds--it's about people. About Grove O'Rourke, top producer at Sachs, Kidder and Carnegie, and his best friend, Charlie, whose spectacular murder is carried out in front of hundreds of horrified...
97) The traffickers
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Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
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On a beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town in inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can fathom what this barrier is and when - or if - it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to hold the reins of power, and...
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"The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. Driven and haunted, they forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father's business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath Depression and drought."--P. [4] of cover.
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It was only because Leelee Satterfield had adored her husband since the tenth grade that she agreed to leave Memphis to follow his dream of managing an inn in Vermont. But when Leelee is left swindled and snowbound, she's forced to confront the true depth of her Southern grit in this foreign town. Readers will rejoice in the hilarious antics, colorful cast of characters, and heartfelt moments in Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter.
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