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Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio, the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man Grant Mason's defences. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead. She is particularly interested in the prehistoric Adena civilization that once called the area home. A large burial mound sits on Mason family land,...
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Caribbean kitchen mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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While filming a Three Kings Day special in Old San Juan, a cooking show sensation fends off a stalker and investigates when her costar goes missing.
"In the third installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mysteries, for fans of Mia P. Manansala , Miriam Quiñones, cooking show sensation and amateur sleuth, has sand between her toes and a murderer nipping at her heels. A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When her boyfriend, Thor, disappears while investigating arms traffickers on the Greek island of Samos, Dina Pelerin sets out to find him and discovers connections to a murder spree in 1973 that resulted in the execution of a beautiful movie star.
4) Ammonite
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep--and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. -- From publisher description.
6) Fever
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Series
Dark Kings volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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His kiss was fire and passion. She shivered, wondering how he knew just how to touch her, to send her spiraling into an abyss of pleasure... For centuries, the Dragon Kings have lived among mortals, forsaking their true selves. But for Kelton, hiding in the realm of shadowsand existing only in the world of dreamsis no longer an option. A human woman claims to know that he, like other dark warriors of his kind, is real. That the legends about these...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything
To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers,...
11) Fatal voyage
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan behind the scenes of a major commercial airliner crash in this pulse-pounding thriller.
"Buckle up and take this voyage," says People. The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight...
"Buckle up and take this voyage," says People. The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Coming of Age focuses on five years in Mead's young life when she began to question the traditional attitudes toward sex, courtship and marriage that dominated the early 20th century. The story begins in 1921, when Mead is a young woman of twenty and a student at Barnard College in New York City. Conventional enough to accept the role society has handed to her, and defiant enough to rise up against it, she struggles to find her own path. Life begins...
14) Bare bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan—she works with the dead, but she works for the living.
"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious...
"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious...
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Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The search for a woman who disappeared in 1906 has lead cultural anthropologist Erin Dawson to Cedar Canyon, where the iconic terrain of red rock walls and mesas keep Navajo traditions and maybe criminal evidence well hidden. When Erin s search leads her to cross paths with tribal policeman Adam Silverhorn, it s hardly love at first sight. But everywhere she turns, Adam is already there.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"--
18) Deadly décisions
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old girl is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teen disappears from home. Parts of what may be her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. The deaths propel Dr. Temperance Brennan on a journey through the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
20) Grave secrets
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Investigating a massacre that took place in Guatemala in 1982, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers that those events are linked to the disappearance of four girls from Guatemala City, as well as the murder of a human rights investigator.
Dr. Temperance Brennan is asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on a case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months-- one the Canadian ambassador's...
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