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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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While searching the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son, Jim Hawkins, find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. Hawkins sets sail on board the ship Hispaniola to find the treasure.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
2) Charade
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A medical miracle gave TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. It gave her a second chance at life. After leaving Hollywood to host a San Antonio TV show spotlighting children with special needs, Cat fights to gain respect as a newscaster. She meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer, who regards her as a woman, not as a heart patient. When fatal 'accidents' begin killing the other heart recipients, Alex may, or may not, be her most...
3) Persuasion
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"Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, a teenager engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne's...
5) Tripwire
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The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. Hes got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous confidence of an alluring woman, and the dangerous corners of his...
6) Storm front
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
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Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead...
8) Blood memory
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"Forensics expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when she inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints ... and the trauma of her father's murder years...
9) Darkfever
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Fever novels volume 1
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MacKayla 'Mac' Lane is on the hunt for answers in Ireland after her sister is mysteriously and brutally murdered. With the ability to peer into the realm of the Fae she closes in on the truth, she realizes there is far more at stake than bringing the killer to justice.
10) Full scoop
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[2006]
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Chaos seems to rule as a group of friends in Beaumont, South Carolina try to get their lives running smoothly even as the resident psychic-slash-astrologer says the planets are against them.
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In Death series volume 24
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English
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NYPD Lt. Eve Dallas is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a grammar school history teacher. When it turns out that Craig Foster was poisoned, all eyes are on the packed lunch he brought to school with him that day, a lunch prepared for him by his wife. Dallas is baffled by the motivation for such a murder, until she begins to unearth some astonishing secrets. Meanwhile, she is worried for her own marriage, when her husband seems blinded by the coy...
13) Blood brothers
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Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen, and three friends--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--must battle against evil with the women who love them by their sides.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.
15) Lawn boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
17) Where angels go
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Angelic intervention volume 7
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English
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Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people--an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish.
Archangel Gabriel and his three mischievous Prayer Ambassadors--Shirley, Goodness and Mercy--lend their celestial aid to three needy Christmas cases. Harry Alderwood, 86, prays that his increasingly forgetful wife,...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Dean Koontz is quite well-known, as is the Koontz family's golden retriever, Trixie Koontz. Before passing away in 2007, Trixie was a guest on Dean's website, revealing dog-themed tales to Koontz fans. Now Dean Koontz presents Trixie's own book! Bliss to You provides essential wisdom on living life to its greatest potential.
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Three years ago, Elvis Cole discovered the evidence that allowed an innocent man to escape a murder charge. Now, preparing an evacuation in advance of a wildfire, police find that man dead, an apparent suicide. Found with the corpse are photos of the victim in that murder case, as well as other victims that were murdered later. Did Elvis Cole cost these young women their lives?
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Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.
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