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1) The woods
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"Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For county prosecutor Paul Copeland, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career distracts him from his past traumas, but only...
2) Blue heaven
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder - four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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English
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"Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law - lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once." "Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 17
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English
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In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent.
5) The warning
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A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power plant, where Jordan's father is an engineer, is under...
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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
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Hardy boys casefiles volume 111
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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An attempt to help their kidnapped uncle leaves the Hardy Boys stranded in a strange city far from home, being hunted down by two desperate gangs.
11) The Watchman
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Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes...
13) Total Control
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Sidney Archer, aided by FBI agent Lee Sawyer, searches for the truth about the disappearance of her husband Jason, a rising young executive with the world's leading technology conglomerate, who was supposed to be on an airplane that crashed, but apparently missed the flight and has not been seen since.
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game,...
16) Frayed
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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While seeking her sister Kelsey's killer, Ava Hale uncovers secrets that cause her whole life to unravel, because if she did not even know her sister, then who can she trust?
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 136
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Frank and Joe have volunteered to do undercover security work at the Bayport Winter Festival. They run into some masked, gun-wielding thugs who steal money intended for the local children's hospital.
18) Fatal cure
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Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Doctors Angela and David Wilson think they've found personal and professional bliss when they arrive at rural Bartlet, Vermont, a sleepy little village with a state-of-the-art medical facility-a necessity for their daughter, Nikki, who has cystic fibrosis. But Angela's curiosity is aroused when she notices puzzling details inthe deaths of several terminal patients, many of them children with cystic fibrosis. The couple is in a state of near panic...
19) The escape
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Avery, the police chief's daughter, risks her life to uncover the truth about the murder of a friend, Adam, who disappeared during a hike in the woods with his neighbor, Fletcher, whom she later found covered in blood and with no memory of what happened.
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Graveyard diaries volume 5
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Mitch Morris really likes Mercy Knight, the new girl in Marshfield, but his friends are convinced that she and her parents are vampires.