1962
1) Fool me once
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Language
English
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"Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe--who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and...
2) Don't let go
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Language
English
Description
"Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks--and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though he...
3) The woods
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Language
English
Description
New Jersey prosecutor Paul Copeland is distracted from his high-profile case against some wealthy college students when his past intrudes with the discovery of the body of a middle-aged man who was one of four young campers presumed to have been murdered twenty years earlier--a crime that occurred while Copeland was neglecting his duties as a security guard to enjoy a tryst with his girlfriend.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the isolated Nevada air base known as Area 51, covering its use for testing top-secret aircraft, and discusses speculation about a connection to unidentified flying objects.
5) The innocent
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Matt Hunter, released from prison for accidentally killing someone when breaking up a fight, has his life back on track--a beautiful, pregnant wife, and a pending deal on the house of his dreams--until he receives bizarre photographs that send him running from the law.
6) Hold tight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Worrying about their sixteen-year-old son in the wake of a friend's suicide, his parents install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes their son may have been involved.
7) Stay close
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Language
English
Description
Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
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Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A promise made on a whim comes back to haunt sports and entertainment agent Myron Bolitar when he is asked to drop off a neighborhood girl in a suburban area and she promptly vanishes.
9) Long lost
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Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to
10) Win
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Series
Windsor Horne Lockwood III novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors -- and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Language
English
Description
Discovering that a recent string of accidental deaths and suicides are actually murders, Adrian Monk begins to doubt his detective skills when his chief suspect is killed, a situation that is complicated by his arch nemesis Dale the Whale's escape from prison.
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Obsessive compulsive detective Monk is working double time to solve two crimes, a murder of a woman found in Natalie's bed complete with marked money from a federal sting operation and locating his agoraphobic brother's missing girlfriend, Yuki.
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Series
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English
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Description
Captain Leland Stottlemayer is faced with budget cuts and trims Monk's services as an expense. Though he insists it's nothing personal, when Monk's offers to help for no charge are declined, he and Natalie suspect otherwise. But Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating. So when Stottlemayer is arrested for the killing of another cop with overwhelming evidence against him, he must turn to the only detective who can prove his innocence.
15) Joy of cooking
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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
A 1997 edition of the classic cookbook, last revised in the 1970s, providing reference information on ingredients, menus, and cooking basics, and featuring recipes in all categories for everyday and gourmet dishes.
17) Little tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The poet/individualist's ode to a small tree decorated for Christmas and proud to receive admiring attention.
18) Bone canyon
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Series
Eve Ronin volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a horrific story to tell. Eve tirelessly digs into the past,...
19) Lost hills
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Series
Eve Ronin volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A video of Deputy Eve Ronin's off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff, desperate for more positive press, makes Eve the youngest female homicide detective in the department's history. Now Eve, with a lot to learn and resented by her colleagues, has to justify her new badge. Her chance comes when she and her burned-out,...
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Language
English
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Description
Quirky detective Adrian Monk travels with his assistant Natalie to Trouble, California, to investigate the murder of the watchman at the Gold Rush Museum, but Monk's attention is diverted when he discovers a personal link to the unsolved train robbery that put the town on the map.