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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues--Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy--confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival ? and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.During the Nazis brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous...
8) Foreign body
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Medical student Jennifer Hernandez watches a news report about people who travel to foreign countries for medical care. She is shocked when her grandmother is mentioned in the story, and even more shocked to learn about her death. Jennifer travels to the hospital in New Delhi, India in a search for answers, asking Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton to come along for help. Soon the trio discovers a horrific plan that is being carried out...
9) The front
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
10) Scarpetta
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years earlier, a young lawyer investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four-year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
14) Dead or alive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail.
15) Freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an entire summer.
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[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...
18) I'll walk alone
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
20) The lost years
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments -- a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year old Mariah to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel...
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