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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 9
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English
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"Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
25) Gideon's sword
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"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
26) The ice house
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Inspectors Walsh and McLouglin investigate the discovery of a corpse in an ice-house on an isolated estate and the three women who call it home.
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While investigating the murders of nineteen people, including her grandparents, in a small village in Sweden, Judge Birgitta Roslin learns of others of the same family in Nevada who were also murdered and a connection between China and the slave trade of the nineteenth century.
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Caterina Pellegrini, a musicologist with a doctorate in Baroque opera, takes a job in her hometown of Venice, Italy, in order to examine two trunks believed to contain the papers of a once-famous italian Baroque composer, a man well connected with the church but was caught up in a scandal in 1694.
29) Metro girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Bill Barnaby has disappeared and his sister Alex heads for Miami to hunt him down and finds herself battling hit men, international intrigue, and a good-looking NASCAR driver, Sam Hooker, who is also looking for Bill.
31) Live to tell
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Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.
32) Red mist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Kay Scarpetta questions inmates at the Georgia Prison for Women looking to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier.
33) The switch
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English
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Melina, her twin sister Gillian brutally murdered, sets out to find the killer, and in the course of her investigation, she learns that the murder may be linked to Gillian's recent attempts to have a child.
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Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean, still grieving the death of her fiancē in a bank robbery eight months earlier, becomes caught up in the investigation of the death of Jillian Perry, a wife of three weeks with a young daughter, who was found dead in the woods of no apparent cause, and her efforts are aided by Jillian's former boyfriend who believes the child may also be in danger.
35) Even money
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Bookmaker Ned Talbot, dealing with having to pay out a large sum of money after the first day of Royal Ascot, is reunited with his father, who he believed was dead, only to see the man killed an hour later, leading Ned to race to uncover secrets in the man's past and the reason for his murder.
36) Back story
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Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
37) Sister: a novel
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Bee is the only one unconvinced by the police report that declared her sister's death a suicide and moves into her apartment with the hope of piecing together the clues that will reveal the killer only to discover her sister had a stalker and was having an affair with a married man who got her pregnant.
38) Bleeding hearts
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Ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles agrees to conduct a sensitive investigation into one of Pecan Springs' most prominent citizens, who has been accused of improper behavior and uncovers a scandal that will rock their small community.
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Three Pines mystery volume 17
Thorndike Press large print core
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 17
Thorndike Press large print core
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 17
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English
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide security for a visiting Professor of Statistics at the nearby university. It sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture. They refuse and accuse Gamache of censorship. Before long, Professor Abigail Robinson's views start seeping into conversation. Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights....
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott's anxiety over her upcoming Christmas wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant is compounded by the murder of a colleague, her involvement in helping students research the innocence of a death-row prisoner, ongoing renovations to her house, and worries over how to connect with her soon-to-be stepson.
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