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2023.
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English
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Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems--if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Do you believe in ghosts? Enter the realm of the paranormal with Kelly Milner Halls. Explore what ghosts are, where they're found, and meet some famous ghost busters. Check out the high-tech equipment modern ghost hunters use, and see their most convincing evidence that ghosts are real. Finally,take a look at a few famous hoaxes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Three Brooklyn teens [...] plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn't mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph's music lie forgotten under his bed after he's murdered -- not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph's younger sister Jasmine, they come up...
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Black Dog & Leventhal, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Nevraumont to create this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece;...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Geronimo is taking his Benjamin on a trip to Rome to learn the city's history (and keep him from failing fifth grade), but when they arrive they are immediately pulled into the investigation of the "ghost" of a gladiator that seems to be haunting the Colosseum and scaring tourists away.
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Series
It actually happened volume 1
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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English
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In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button.
When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.
Chris was a CIA agent who was concerned about Jenelle. Seeing the cyberbullying she had endured, and worried...
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English
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A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders. In this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a particularly notorious...
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Leslie "Ike" Atkinson is one of U. S. history's most original gangsters. According to law enforcement sources, he and his gang smuggled, by conservative estimates, 1,000 pounds of heroin annually from Bangkok, Thailand, to U. S. military bases during their period of operation from 1968 to 1975. The Bangkok Connection: Trafficking Heroin from Asia to the USA chronicles the story of Atkinson, a charismatic former U. S. army master sergeant, career smuggler,...
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This is the story of how a family can be destroyed by a chain of events that begin when one member puts her trust in a conman. At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Védrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family, educated and socially established. From the outside they had everything they could have wished for – wealth, love, friends, education and family. But the very closeness and trust they had with each other ended up splitting...
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Get the Summary of Becca Day's All Her Little Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "All Her Little Lies" by Becca Day, Alex Forrester and Cynthia Carmichael's friendship is tested by a role reversal when Cynthia inherits her mother's farm, making Alex her employee. Tensions rise over concerns for Cynthia's children, Hannah and Bradley, and Hannah's relationship with Alex's son, Daniel. After a heated conversation,...
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A book of mystery and intrigue. The central character in this story, Mitch Conner, is starting a new life after moving from the fast pace and complex city of Atlanta to the serenity and relaxed atmosphere of a small town. Conner's adopted new home is nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of Western Carolina. While out walking in the forests surrounding his rustic cabin one day, he stumbles on human remains. And the unplanned circumstances surrounding...
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Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK Assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer "who" killed JFK but why we should question the actions of the time and why the truth was withheld from the people. Written in a narrative style, the book shares the story of Orville Nix and how he was intimidated yet remained adamant to what he witnessed that horrific day. His camera original film that shows the grassy knoll...
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English
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The 2016 elections. Trump becomes possibly the most influential person in all of America. What he does with that power, though, twists the ideals of American freedom and democracy. Behind closed doors, President Trump plots to sway the lives of the American people, or possibly even further. The F.B.I., however, has other plans to reclaim America and return it to its constitutional heritage.
Who will become victorious in the chase for an entire nation,...
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Officer McCrea is starting his eighth year of service as a South Dakota Game Warden. His status as a naïve, rookie officer is in the distant past. He has matured professionally and has taken on additional, high-liability endeavors such as certified firearms instructor, head range master, and use of force expert. After just eight years he is bestowed with a tremendous professional honor: 1991 Wildlife Officer of the Year. He received this highest...
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Get the Summary of Gregg Olsen's American Mother in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "American Mother" by Gregg Olsen recounts the tragic death of Sue Snow, found unresponsive by her daughter Hayley on June 11, 1986, and later declared brain-dead. Sue's life, marked by her rise to bank vice president, marriage to Connie Snow, and their daughters Exa and Hayley, is detailed alongside her separation, infidelities,...
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This book is in two parts. Part I is a researched account of cultural, historical, and ecological elements of south Louisiana, focusing on selected institutional and geologic elements that shape lives and governments. The Mississippi river and offshore oil and gas development feature largely in this narration, in lives and businesses and economics. This includes a narration of notable events in coastal Louisiana derived from public media, personal...
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Warden McCrea spent 23 years faithfully serving the citizens of South Dakota as a state game warden. His career, which spanned from 1983-2006, started in the Moody County Warden District in the small town of Flandreau. What made the Moody County Warden District so challenging is that prior to Warden McCrea's arrival, the district had been without a game warden for 25 years. His first serious challenge was overcoming the many vicious rumors started...
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