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1) The front
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winston Garano is the investigator for the case of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962, and assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler. Unbeknownst to Winston, this case will take him on a journey that will test his limits, uncover ancient secrets, and even endanger his own life.
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English
Description
In the mid 1700s, Hallie Brady, hopelessly married to a fool, finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a few other families. For shelter from the oncoming winter, the group digs in and Hallie becomes the founder of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Over the centuries, the people and landscape of Blackwell have changed, but the red garden, the land where Hallie's house originally stood, has endured.
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Language
English
Description
With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
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Spenser novel volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
6) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
When his Indian immigrant parents give him an odd name, a boy must struggle towards manhood suffering the burdens of this name as well as the conflicting loyalties of his heritage.
"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts...
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Series
Jesse Stone volume 12
Language
English
Description
The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over.
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English
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. Elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird...
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Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Set against the scenic backdrop of a New England winter, Echo Lake is a captivating tale of family, friends and the possibility of new love.
12) Blue screen
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint. Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Shortly before the Autumn Festival at Port Frederick, Massachusetts, a widow seeks Jenny Cain's help in having a nature trail closed where her husband was killed crossing a highway. When Jenny agrees, she is swept into a deadly controversy that threatens disaster for herself and those she holds dear.
14) The river king
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
16) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
17) The River House
Author
Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired to organize an entrepreneurial boot camp, a party planner reconnects with a childhood friend who has become a successful businessman and whose professional ambitions complicate their growing bond.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, fleeing from his own wedding preparations, is hired to review a case--one that he finds has little evidence and twisted by an out-of-control media--in what may be the most compelling case of his entire career.
19) Sour apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Apple orchard owner Meg Corey steps in to investigate after her neighbor, local dairy dame Joyce Truesdell, is found dead. At first it was believed Joyce was killed by a kick to the head by one of her cows, but then the autopsy shows the fatal blow came from a weapon.
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