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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an U.S. MIA in Afghanistan hires Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators--to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
3) Hidden star
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Series
Language
English
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Cade takes one look at the beautiful blond who walks into his office and falls in love. Bailey doesn't know who she is, or why she is carrying a tote bag filled with more than a million dollars in cash, a pistol, and a priceless blue diamond.
6) End game
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has vanished. His last known location was in remote Colorado, and there have been no other sightings or communications since. But there is violence brewing in this small town, and Robie and his sometime-partner Jessica Reel will be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down-and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic...
8) Glass houses
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English
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"When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the S?uret?e du Qu?ebec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope...
9) The highway
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When teenagers Danielle and Gracie Sullivan take a car trip to visit their friend in Montana, little do they know it's the last time anyone will ever hear from them again. The girls and their car simply vanish. Cody, who's just lost his job and has fallen off the wagon after a long stretch of sobriety, is in no condition to investigate. But his son Justin, who the girls were going to visit, and his former partner, Cassie, convince him to drive...
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Sisters of Holmes County volume 1
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English
Description
Putting her rumschpringe (running-around years) behind her, Grace Hostettler returns to Holmes County, Ohio; joins the Amish church; and begins a new life with a new romance. The next four years are nearly idyllic for the oldest Hostettler child--except for the hidden pain she bears from a carefully harboured secret.....
12) The seekers
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English
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"Married for eight years with no children to help fill her days, Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But it is a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement. Charlene Higgins is engaged, but to the despair of her fiancae's family, she can't cook. Kendra Perkins, a teen estranged from her family, is facing an unwanted pregnancy alone. Loretta...
13) The help
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
15) The last song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and
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Alex Cross novels volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Christmas eve while celebrating with his family, Alex Cross receives a phone call with news that a nearby family has been taken hostage--a father is threatening to murder his children and his ex-wife. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity, and daring to save another family.
17) Hope to die
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Alex Cross novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?"...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sauretae du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident,...
19) Prior bad acts
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Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, assigned to protect Judge Carey Moore who has come under fire for repressing accused serial killer Kurt Dahl's prior criminal record, are burdened with a much more urgent task when Moore is kidnapped from her home, and Dahl escapes from prison.
20) Woman of god
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English
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"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor...
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