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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century's legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery...
Author
Series
Desert roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book 1 of the Desert Roses series. Working as a Harvey Girl at the luxury resort of El Tovar, located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Alexandra Keegan feels she is in a dream come true. But when her father's indiscretions come to light and her mother is suspected of murder, Alex finds herself the center of some unwelcome attention. Will she soon find herself alone in the world?
6) Tempting
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After three romantic flame-outs in a year and a restaurant career going nowhere, Dani Buchanan needs a fresh start. She goes looking for her biological father, but never expects to find a senator running for president. As his long-lost "love child," Dani could seriously derail the election something his handsome campaign manager Alex Canfield isn't going to let happen. Dani isn't about to let Alex run her life, no matter how tempting she finds him...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The time, 1959-and America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever
11) Garrett
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Series
Language
English
Description
Fast track up the political ladder, fast cars, fast women-that's Garrett McKettrick. Make that was. A scandal has slowed him down and brought him home to Blue River, Texas, a place where a man can take stock. Where he can plan his next move. Which doesn't include staying at the family ranch with his brothers. A city boy, Garrett doesn't think he has the land in his blood. But Blue River has other attractions, like his former high school nemesis,...
13) Mismatch
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Bronwynn Prescott Pierson is a beautiful and privileged globe-trotter running from an unhappy engagement. Wade Grayson is a congressman from the heartland of America, raised in a salt-of-the-earth community. When they meet in the wild of Vermont, the
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Higgins Clark, America's "Queen of Suspense," delves into the mystery of psychic powers and communication with the dead in her gripping new thriller, Before I Say Good-Bye. When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York harbor with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell MacDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had just had a serious quarrel and...
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When a leak within the CIA results in the brutal torture and death of a US spy in Tehran, who just gave information to the CIA about a crooked American contractor in Iran, Joe DeMarco is tasked to investigate. Teaming up with the CIA, DeMarco discovers that the victim once had a fling with a journalist now serving time in prison and threatening to unravel DeMarco's entire operation.
18) Razor sharp
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A Friend In Need…Needs The Sisterhood
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood-Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle-never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client-Lily Flowers, the Madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp.
The chips-a.k.a. the prominent...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn't expecting much. It's the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can't resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For readers of romantic comedy, and fans of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game, Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners, and Jasmine Guillory's The Wedding Date. What happens when the person you find MOST impossible becomes impossible to resist? Opposites distract in this hilarious romantic comedy about America's least likely couple. There's just one thing standing between liberal Senate staffer Kate Adams and passage of the landmark legislation she's been...
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