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Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Female Science Fiction Writers
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
Newbery Award Winners
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 3rd - 7th Grade
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
2) Vanish
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 5
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English
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A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis. An apparent suicide victim, a nameless woman, opens her eyes as the medical examiner unzips the body bag. The woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
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Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Nine years ago, Travis Boyette raped and murdered a popular high school student in Sloan Texas. To his amazement, Donte Drumm, the school's football star, was wrongly convicted of his heinous crimes and sent to death row. Now, Travis, who has an inoperable brain tumor and is stricken with guilt, decides to confess in a bid to save Donte, who has just four days before his execution.
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In this collection of short stories, King takes listeners beyond the safe haven of daylight and into a dark realm where anything is possible--and where no one is safe. With startling tales bearing the celebrated author's unmistakable imprint, "Just after sunset" proves a terrifying treat.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post
“A graceful tribute to a one-of-a-kind man.”—The...
“A graceful tribute to a one-of-a-kind man.”—The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he has been emailing compromised.
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English
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From number one New York Times best selling author Danielle Steel, this is a spellbinding story of two families living a hundred years apart, who come together in time in a startling moment, opening the doors to rare friendship and major events in early twentieth century history.
A magical tale of a modern family sharing a gorgeous Pacific Heights mansion with their ghostly, elegant predecessors.
12) Deception
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Alex Delaware novels volume 25
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English
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When a DVD discovered near Elise Freeman's decomposing corpse sheds insight on her yearlong torture and eventual murder, detective Milo Sturgis calls on the help of his longtime friend Dr. Alex Delaware. As they examine the evidence, Alex and Milo home in on the prime suspects: three teachers from the prestigious Windsor Academy. However, as the investigation continues, Alex discovers that solving Elise's murder will barely crack the surface in the...
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Women's Murder Club volume 19
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English
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If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco....
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English
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"Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town's Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Flagg's own Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way-along with a new adversary who's even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty...
16) Diablo Mesa
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
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English
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Responding to the promise of a hefty donation from an eccentric billionaire with space travel ambitions, the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute excavates the site of the 1947 Roswell incident and immediately uncovers two unknown murder victims.
A billionaire wants to excavate the site of the 1947 Roswell incident, and Nora Kelly is tasked with the job. Instead of aliens, they uncover bodies--a discovery that opens a pandora's box of mystery and atomic...
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The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when these baffling crimes were committed. Though chosen...
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Oregon files volume 9
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English
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"In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax-- but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
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The actress describes her extremely rare talent known as Superior Autobiographical Memory--the ability to recall details of every day of her life--and discusses how it has helped her in countless scenarios, while offering advice for bolstering memory.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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English
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack....
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