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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.
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When Irene Stenson returns to the Northern California town of Dunsley, she finds that her friend, Pamela, has died suddenly, leaving behind a lot of unanswered questions. Staying at the local lodge, Irene is assisted by Luke Danner, a hazel-eyed ex-Marine, and together they will risk more than local gossip to find out what really happened.
4) Dark places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful...
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In Death series volume 20
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English
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas must solve the murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city—not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal—but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family...
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city—not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal—but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family...
6) Panic
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"Things are going well for twenty-four-year-old Evan Casher: his career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn't be better. After an urgent phone call from his mother, he makes an unexpected trip home to Austin. He arrives to find his mother brutally murdered and narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life." -- Container.
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After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself ... and that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.
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One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the...
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"When his child is taken, a father will stop at nothing to get her back in this explosive, white-knuckle thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger. When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter... Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His six-month-old daughter has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered,...
10) Carolina moon
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English
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Tory Bodeen grew up in a small, rundown house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt--and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope--who lived in the big house, just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child.
11) Knives out
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Lionsgate
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English
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A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"Haunted by her dreams, Mary Russell arrives in San Francisco in 1924 to settle her parents' estate. But she quickly encounters a few surprises and learns there may be a great deal more to her childhood in this city than she ever knew. As Mary tries to cobble the pieces of her shadowy past together, her husband Holmes wonders if she may be repressing vital memories. And one thing seems certain--someone wants Mary's remembrances to stay buried."
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her teenage sister, Andrea, was murdered. It was Ellie who led her parents to the secret hideout in which Andrea's body was found. And it was Ellie's testimony that led to the conviction of the man she firmly believed to be the killer. Now, twenty-two years later, the convicted killer is set free from prison. He returns to Ellie's hometown intent on white-washing his reputation. Ellie, now an investigative...
16) The king of lies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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North Carolina criminal defense attorney Jackson "Work" Pickens is struggling to build a stable career on the emotional wreckage of his personal life. His marriage is falling apart, his sister is psychologically disturbed, he's struggling to overcome the death of his mother and his father has been missing for over a year. Suspicion falls on Work when his father's corpse is discovered, forcing him to track down the real killer.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Rachel Howard woke to the sight of blood on the hallway carpet and a glimpse of her father clutching his stabbed throat. Stan Howard died minutes later, and his bizarre small-town murder was never solved. Rachel's father was a laid-back, handsome man with no known enemies. Faced with her family's shock, Rachel coped by keeping silent and trying to pretend the murder had never happened. Seventeen years later, Rachel attempts to uncover...
20) The family trade
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Series
Merchant princes volume 1
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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