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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn't about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him.Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care. Realising that her neighbourly concern isn't going to get her past, the front door Kinsey turns to more unorthodox methods to step up her investigation....
43) High country
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When four young employees of Yosemite National Park disappear, ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at the Ahwahnee Lodge to investigate. Living in the staff dorm, she soon discovers there's a connection between at least one of the missing girls, a crashed plane containing a fortune in drugs, and the outsiders who've moved into the tent cabin last occupied by a skilled climber who's also among the disappeared. The first attempt on her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up--one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson and a woman brutally slain.
45) Acorna's quest
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Series
Acorna series volume 2
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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With the help of her "Uncle" Calum, Acorna sets off to find her people, a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns.
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Circle trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 3
The circle trilogy volume no. 3
Thorndike Press large print core
The circle trilogy volume no. 3
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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After traveling through the Dance of te Gods to reach the land of Geall, the circle perpares the people of Geall to defeat Lility's vampire army in the less than a month that remains, while Moira follows the tradition of her people and prepares the crown before leading them into battle while her thoughts turn to the one she loves, the vampire Cian.
48) Line of duty
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When a bomb explodes in the 30-story Icon International building, fire departments from around the area are called in to battle the blaze. But as they work to evacuate the upper floors more bombs explode, trapping firefighters and civilians beneath the rubble. When the smoke clears, lawyer Jill Clark Nichols realizes that her husband Dan, one of the firefighters, is missing. Can Jill's faith carry her through the long days of pain and uncertainty?...
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Wheel of time volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 46
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English
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Tarmon Gaidon, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordans editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained...
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English
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When Chicago native Ragni Claussen grudgingly agrees to take her sullen niece with her to spruce up the family's old North Dakota cabin, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about how her greatgrandmother--in 1903--learned to live and paint and love in this very place.
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"Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family; Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago; and Zoe, an artist shunned...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
53) Dead beat
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English
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Chicago wizard Harry Dresden rushes to solve the riddle of a vampire's demand for the Word of Keppler in order to save the city, and his friend Karrin Murphy, head of the city's Special Investigations department, from the threat of supernatural horror.
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Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy volume 2
New Irish trilogy volume 2
Gallagher siblings trilogy volume 2
Irish trilogy)
New Irish trilogy volume 2
Gallagher siblings trilogy volume 2
Irish trilogy)
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English
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Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
55) One true thing
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English
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A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.
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Zoe Luce, psychic interior decorator, has finally settled down to domestic life in Whispering Springs, Ariz., with private investigator Ethan Truax after their tempestuous courtship. However, sinister cobwebs of energy confront her when she enters certain rooms, threatening to make her lose her tenuous grip on sanity. Meanwhile, Arcadia Ames, Zoe's old friend from Candle Lake Manor Psychiatric Hospital, fears the husband she sacrificed her identity...
57) Death masks
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Dresden files volume 5
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English
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Professional wizard Harry Dresden finds his life spiralling out of control when the Red Court of Vampires' champion sets out to kill him, professional hit men use him for target practice, the Shroud of Turin goes missing, he becomes involved in a murder investigation, and his ex-girlfriend returns.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 15
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English
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"The Starfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape in this place of unspoiled natural majesty. Because terror strolls the decks even in the brilliant light of day . . . and death is a conspicuous, unwelcome passenger. Former Seattle policeman J.P. Beaumont--a damaged homicide detective...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
60) Code to zero
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English
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A tale set during the height of the Cold War follows one man's journey to uncover family secrets on a quest that leads him into the heart of the nation's burgeoning space program.