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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. Reader's Guide available.
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches...
4) The firm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert and Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail - already knew: You never get nothing for nothing.
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
In europe's most dangerous city Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private's most high-profile...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When a climate-wars project involving the construction of a sophisticated floating city in the Arctic Circle begins to succumb to corruption and crime, the arrival of a woman riding an orca at the side of a polar-bear companion subtly brings together four marginalized people to stage strategic acts of resistance. By the award-winning author of the young-adult novel, The Art of Starving.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A woman with a murky past who kills herself - or was it murder? A dying old man cared for by the son he pummeled mercilessly. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring racking up millions in stolen goods, and the spider at the center of the web. And Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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NYT - Crime and Punishment
Author Birthdays - January
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NYT - Crime and Punishment
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While Daniel H. Burnham builds the glittering 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a serial killer lures young women to a torture chamber.
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2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
10) Judge and jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Nick Pellisante finally captures mob boss Dominic Cavello. Two of Cavello's former employees are ready to testify against him when he hires a killer to make sure the trial never concludes.
11) In plain sight
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly...
12) Little blue lies
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Oliver, known as "O", and his suddenly ex-girlfriend Junie are are known for telling little lies, but one of Junie's lies about not winning the lottery could get her into trouble with a local mob boss.
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Series
Plugged volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor and searches for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
14) Mystic river
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened-something that ended their friendship...
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Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya"--Provided by publisher.
16) Kiss kill vanish
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father."--
17) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Harry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992.
Riveting and relentlessly paced, THE BLACK BOX leads Harry Bosch, "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News), into one of his most fraught and perilous cases. In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer...
20) wtf
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Some high school students, undercover police, and drug dealers endure a crazy night of missed meet-ups, automobile accidents, suburban house parties, frantic text-messaging, and other panic-inducing experiences in and around New York City.
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