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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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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Loonie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrail legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statue of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
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Beginning slowly with the day-to day life of private eye Kinsey Millhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. Though set in the late eighties, T is for trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Lorna Kepler's death was mysterious, involving no known motive or suspect; even the means were mysterious. In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss. Leaving a session one evening, and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone investigations, she knocked on the door.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2009]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
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It's April, 1988. Kinsey Millhone is in her office when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is twenty -seven, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared and Sutton believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A woman with a murky past who kills herself or was it murder? A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring racking up millions in stolen goods. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her...
10) True Blue
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2011]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
11) A good horse
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Alfred A. Knopf
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©2010
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows theres no place shed rather be than her familys ranch-even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. When he and Abby clear four feet easy as pie, heads start to turn at the ring-buyers heads-and Abby knows Daddy wont turn down a good offer.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Kinsey's on the case when the seemingly small task of helping a neighbor, Bucky, obtain burial fees for his deceased veteran grandfather turns into an all-out treasure hunt.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Kinsey Millhone has been hired by California Fidelity to investigate sightings of a man who disappeared five years before.
14) Gee Whiz
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
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Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is their Bible, and some days his letters are the only things that keep them going as they struggle through the humiliating daily rituals of adolescence-confronting their bewildering new bodies, fighting with mothers who don't understand them at all. Together they tackle the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest whose winners will be flown...
17) Dogtag summer
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Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
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2011.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
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In A is for Alibi, tough-talking private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for lost causes. That's why she draws clients like Nikki Fife. Nikki is out on parole after serving time for allegedly killing her husband, and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But clearing Nikki's name won't...
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St Martin's Paperbacks
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[2022]
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English
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"C is for corpse: Fearing that the assailant who had once tried to kill him--and had left him badly scarred and partially amnesiac--would again try to murder him, Bobby Callahan turns to Kinsey Millhone for help. D is for deadbeat: Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee."--
20) The accusation
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among...