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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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"It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu - battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor." "The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant...
22) Duma Key
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
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After a crane crushes his truck, millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He leaves Minnesota for remote Duma Key, Florida, which is owned by Elizabeth Eastlake, an octogenarian with a tragic past. When Edgar begins to paint, his talent seems to come from outside him, and the paintings have...
23) Utopia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a theme park attracting 65,000 visitors each day, with its dazzling array of robots and futuristic holograms. But ominous mishaps are beginning to disrupt the once flawless technology. A friendly robot goes haywire, causing panic, and a popular roller coaster malfunctions, nearly killing a teenaged rider. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant computer engineer who designed much of the park's robotics,...
24) Odd Hours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 17
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Stone Barrington is back in New York and looking forward to some downtime working cases for Woodman & Weld that the prestigious law firm does not wish to be seen to be associated with. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress and sometime lip model, Stone gets a little more deeply involved with show business than he's expected. Then the fleecing of a wealthy art dealer's daughter leads him into the worlds of financial fraud, Big...
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
28) Now and then
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When a simple case turns into a treacherous and politically charged investigation, Spenser faces his most difficult challenge yet - keeping his cool while his beloved Susan Silverman is in danger. Spenser knows something's amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy's aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan's abnomal behavior, Spenser...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for...
30) The Kite Runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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The 10th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers.The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration...
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
33) Dark of the moon
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Virgil Flowers, 30, a cop with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, had come to Bluestem in search of a killer. There hadn't been a murder in Bluestem in years, but now suddenly there had been three. He thought some of his previous cases had been hard, but they were nothing compared to this one. All he knew for sure was that the three murders were somehow connected and he was determined to discover how, hopefully before he became the next...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
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Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
38) Ultraviolence
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2014
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One of the most talked about figures in music returns with her highly anticipated sophomore album. Here Lana Del Rey collaborates with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach on tracks that include the new single West Coast.
39) Bare Bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
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With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this popular series already know, Tempe is a forensic anthropologist: an expert in the human form (especially bones) who helps solve crimes. The abovementioned infant is only the first in a series of grisly remains, both human and animal, that Tempe must sort through and decode. Meanwhile,...
40) Next: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Journeys inside the world of bioengineering and genetics, in a provocative novel of near-future science run amok.