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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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English
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
4) Sister act
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
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Series
Fairfax novels (Calia Read) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Committed to a psych ward against her will, Naomi Carradine knows there's been a huge mistake. But it's no use explaining the shocking and sensational events leading up to her confinement. When she tells others what she has witnessed, no one believes her, or remotely understands the extreme highs and lows she's experienced. Even her childhood sweetheart Lachlan seems to think Naomi is losing her mind and begins to pull away. With everyone convinced...
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English
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A one-night stand spirals into a web of dark secrets in James Patterson's steamy thriller of love, lust, and murder.
Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.
In a further twist of...
Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.
In a further twist of...
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 4
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English
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Jack O'Malley never expected to fall in love with fellow firefighter Cassie Ellis, and when a serial arsonist begins to target Jack's department, he must fight to protect the woman he loves and the other firefighters he respects.
10) Hit & run
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
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"A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars"--Container.
11) 9 bullets
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents2 murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
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Series
Jack Kale and Beth Sturgis novels volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Seven months after their last encounter, retired FBI agent Jack Kale and Atlanta Police Detective Beth Sturgis are reunited by a new case that pits them against the Sandman, a nearly perfect assassin who leaves no clues, can change his appearance seemingly at will, and has eluded police on four continents for years. Now, it's a race against time to protect the Sandman's next targets--two witnesses scheduled to testify before a grand jury by the end...
13) No good deeds
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Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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Tess Monaghan will not reveal her source regarding the Gregory Youssef death. Meanwhile, her boyfriend decamps with the source, leaving her to face the law enforcers and charges of felony.
14) Dressed to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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After she murders a psychiatrist's patient who was having an affair, a mysterious blonde goes after the only witness to the crime, a high-class call girl.
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English
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Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own handsafter a shocking truth is revealed.
Jason Bennett is a suburban dad and an elite court reporter, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving with his family home after his daughter's...
17) Tell me
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson creates her most electrifying thriller to date, as a mother's unspeakable crime sparks a new killing spree. The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. Now Blondell's...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The House Next Door: Married mother of four Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems....
Killer's wife: Six girls have gone missing. Detective McGrath knows the only way to find them is to get close to the suspect's wife...maybe too close
We. are. not. alone: The first message from space. It will change...
19) The hate u give
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A girl from a poor black neighborhood attending a rich mostly white prep school witnesses her childhood friend being killed by a police officer and faces a difficult dilemma.
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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