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The series set in a future New York City returns as Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly good man - and learns not all people are as innocent as they appear. The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who'd sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Reminded of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Wishbone imagines he's schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, expert on superstitions, bad luck, and ghosts, until he meet the most frightening specter of all-- the Headless Horseman
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene--along with a threatening message from the killer--it looks like someone has been taking notes. Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene--a playing...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
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"Since retiring as head of a famous New York City private school, Maggie Detweiler is busier than ever. Chairing a team to evaluate the faltering Rye Manor School for girls, she will determine whether, in spite of its fabled past, the school has a future at all ... At a reception for the faculty and trustees to 'welcome' Maggie's team, no one seems more keen for all to go well than Florence Meagher, a star teacher who is loved and respected ... The...
5) Instinct
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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The true story of a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. To get his students to open up to their potential he uses unconventional methods, including ground-breaking classroom rules.
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In Death series volume 1
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English
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Three young women have been brutally murdered. After 10 years on the New York City police force, Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better than to become emotionally involved with her work. But the prime suspect is a suave, sophisticated Irish billionaire with a mysterious past and she finds herself powerless to resist his charm.
9) Steal
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Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him. Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter's sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it... Or did he? The one person convinced he's still alive is...
10) Cackle
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
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"All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs and field trips. As he struggles to find his way in the classroom, he spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. The book...
12) Final exam
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Series
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St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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St. Thomas the college north of New York where Alison Bergeron teaches has had its share of scandals so when a Resident Director goes missing they keep it quiet by tapping Alison as a replacement. A stay in the dorms is like hard time and she will do anything to avoid it. Her way out: find the reluctant RD and drag him back. Luckily she doesn't have to look further than the drugs he's hidden to get her boyfriend Detective Bobby Crawford on the case....
13) In the blood
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English
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Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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When a friend asks her for help in finding his nephew, Alison Bergeron enlists the assistance of her boyfriend, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford, only to discover that the missing boy has turned up dead in the Hudson, the victim of a suspicious "suicide."
15) The good husband
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A flamboyant woman professor holds court as she lies dying from cancer. The novel traces the effect she has on the people around her: her self-effacing, much younger husband who left the priesthood to marry her, another professor who is suffering from writer's block, and the professor's wife who is falling in love with the ex-priest. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
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Series
Mundy's Landing volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When she receives an anonymous gift that is linked to a century-old string of gruesome unsolved murders--and her own troubled past--Rowan soon discovers that the town's violent history was only the beginning as a twisted killer sets out to make sure everyone pays for their sins--in blood.
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Series
Instinct volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.