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2) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The death of a stowaway on a Belgian cargo ship leads Dr. Kay Scarpetta to Interpol headquarters, a Paris Morgue and finally home to Virginia.
3) Split second
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The world can change forever in a single...SPLIT SECOND. Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment, and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for...
4) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Henry Townsend, a former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. Henry tragically fails to understand the fundamental flaws in his thinking that he can be a better slave master than a white man.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
Author
Series
Darwin series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the decade since women began giving birth to a new human species, Homo sapiens novus, the world has been in turmoil as these "new" humans battle for survival against those who feel threatened by this leap in evolution.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A small town in North Carolina is shaken when an 11-year-old girl is brutally murdered. In this crime, Scarpetta sees disturbing echoes of a serial killer's work. Soon the case begins to poison not only Scarpetta, but her colleagues and family as well. Unless she can find the murderer, many more lives will be in danger.{
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Frannys mother, Beverlythus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
10) Catch as cat can
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
11) Whisker of evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister,...
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. And Zero Day is where it all begins.... John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal...
15) 1632
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In From Potter's Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill—Scarpetta herself....
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