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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
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.
3) Knives out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
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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Language
English
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"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
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.
8) The tea rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Griffin
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.
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Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch, then driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down men maddened by shell shock. Now, still suffering lingering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa, determined to fulfill a man's dying wish ... and never expecting to become involved in murder.--Publisher...
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