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Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"It all begins with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives at the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible." "Seems like bliss...but is it? Or is all hell about to break loose in Paradise?"--BOOK JACKET
4) Paranoid
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There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think Rachel Gaston got away with murder twenty years ago. Rachel still has no idea how a foolish teenaged game turned deadly, or who replaced the soft pellet air gun she thought she was using with a real weapon. When a figure leapt out at her from the darkness of the old fish processing plant, she fired without thinking. Too late, she recognized her half-brother, Luke, and saw the blood blooming around his...
5) The crush
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A thriller involving a beautiful doctor and her struggle with a questionable secret admirer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
7) Orphan X
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""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
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Lost night files volume 1
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English
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Seven months ago Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers-- strangers to each other-- stayed at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire destroyed the hotel-- and left the women with no memory of their time there. Now they cohost a podcast, The Lost Night Files. Receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum. Ambrose Drake is certain he's a witness to a murder, but everyone thinks he's having...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. All six feet three obscenely wealthy, good-looking inches of him. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house . . . Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his father's mistress. At least she's of age. But those concerns...
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GO-Team volume 002
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English
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Jina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolness factoránd it was very cool, even for Washington, DC. She liked being able to kick terrorist butts without ever leaving the climate-controlled comfort of the control room. But when Jina displays a really high aptitude for spatial awareness and action, sheś reassigned to work as an on-site drone operator in the...
11) Darkness
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BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning--but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
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All eyes are on the Middle East. Israel has successfully launched a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheadsand causing The Twelfth Imam to order a full-scale retaliation. US President William Jackson threatens to support a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. Meanwhile, CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian...
13) Golden in Death
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"In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive-and a terrifying weapon. Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body-and killed him. After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team-and...
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Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you willB́ianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
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"When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished. Beautiful, brilliant--and reckless--Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames--literally....
16) Sunburn: a novel
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals - and cold-blooded murder.One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town of...
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Lorraine Fisher novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Visiting her sister in a community that was rocked by a string of teen suicides five years earlier, Detective Inspector Loraine Fisher races to find her missing nephew when two more suspicious suicides occur.
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NUMA files volume 13
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English
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Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they have ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of his plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, discovered in the City of the Dead and rumored to have...
19) Fatal
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another...
20) Safe and sound
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Sisterhood series volume 29
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English
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Ben Ryan is eight-years-old, and increasingly subjected to danger by his greedy stepfather, who is determined to get his hands on Ben's trust fund. Ben is also the grandson of a former client of the Sisterhood. Isabelle is determined to protect the boy, and calls in the Sisterhood. Meanwhile, Eleanor has vanished on a mission of her town, trying to right an old wrong. With two wrongs to right, the Sisterhood is going to get creative ... -- adapted...