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1) Lethal
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Language
English
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After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
2) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Julie is a third-grade teacher in a small Texas town and is a pillar of the community. Putting her past behind her, she is determined that nothing will shatter the perfect life she has fashioned.
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Series
Calhoun chronicles volume 5
Language
English
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A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after an unthinkable tragedy. Then one day a female fugitive with a gunshot wound appears in Blue's surgery. Even though she holds a pistol aimed at his heart, the desperation in her eyes awakens Blue's compassion. Reluctantly he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel and the mystery surrounding...
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English
Description
Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed. Six years earlier, life was...
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Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 2
Language
English
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On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for private banker Kayla Shaw when she barely escapes a brutal kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars. Damned by lies and false "evidence," she is trapped with no place to run. After five agonizing years, landscape painter Rand McCree has finally been offered what he desires most: the name of his twin...
9) Child of God
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Language
English
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Cormac McCarthy has won nearly every major literary honor, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Set in Tennessee in the 1960s, this chilling novel sees Lester Ballard become increasingly isolated from society. After taking a deceased woman as a girlfriend, he "saves her" from a fire - and his life spirals into deepening depravity.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife two decades ago, Hale is heading back West in search of absolution. And he could use some company on the journey. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Becket agrees to travel into Hale's past, leaving behind his own family for an adventure...
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English
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Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree...
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Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries volume 1
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English
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It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man-Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Series
On the run volume chase 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When Aiden and Meg Falconer discover that Hairless Joe, a killer and madman, holds the key to freeing their parents from prison, they decide to try and trap him, despite the dangers.
14) Stain of guilt
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Series
Hidden faces series volume 2
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English
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As I drew, the house felt eerie in its silence... A strange sense stole over me, as though Bland and I were two actors on stage, our movements spotlighted, black emptiness between us. But that darkness grew smaller as the space between us shrank. I did not know if this sense was due to my immersion in Bland's face and mind and world, or to my fear of his threatening presence. Or both... The nerves between my shoulder blades began to tingle. Help me,...
15) Suspect
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Series
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English
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Acclaimed author Michael Robotham conquered international best-seller lists with this electrifying thriller. After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the...
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Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father, suspected of murdering a beloved local cop. The only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
17) Split second
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Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Language
English
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Laura Scott.
A fugitive at large…
This K-9 is on his trail.
To save a woman from being kidnapped, Officer Chris Fuller and his K-9 partner, Teddy, have no choice but to let the fugitive they're tracking get away. But when the escaped murderer returns to hunt tour pilot Lexie McDaniels again, Chris knows the attempted kidnapping wasn't a chance encounter. Lexie won't be safe until he catches the criminal…but...
19) The perfect shot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice
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Series
Homelanders volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When eighteen-year-old Charlie West finds the one person who knows what happened to him a year earlier, he learns that remembering is painful as well as dangerous, and figuring out what to do with the new knowledge may be his toughest challenge yet.
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