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43) Keeping Her Safe
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Hunter Gordon had pleaded guilty to a crime he hadn't committed. And served ten long years in prison. All to save the family who had taken him in: beautiful Rae Benton and her father. But right before Rae's father died, he revelaed his daughter was in danger. Hunter had to keep her safe.
44) Of all sad words
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Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds himself in the hot seat after persuading the county commissioners to open a Citizen's Sheriff's Academy when the students become the prime suspects in the explosion of a mobile home and a dead man is found nearby.
45) Santa Clawed
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Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder?
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2008
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Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past.--From publisher description.
47) Vanish
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Three strangers find themselves alone, while everyone else has vanished, following a mysterious storm. Conner Hayden is a lawyer who abandoned his family, Helen Krause is an aging model, and Mitch Kent is a man with a troubled past. Together, the three face the terror of realizing they are being watched by sinister and shadowy "observers" who are forcing them to see visions of their own pasts. As the observers become more aggressive, the trio flees...
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Miranda Miller has a husband, a child, and a fulfilling job at a Manhattan museum. She also has a mysterious past. She was sent away from her childhood home on the bayou at the age of five following a tragedy that cut her off from her family. After being summoned to her grandparents' antebellum estate by the caretaker, Miranda plunges into a nightmare of buried secrets, unknown enemies, priceless treasures, and an all-consuming quest for a heart...
49) Bayou Paradox
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Large Print Book
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Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies--exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness. A trail of clues and treasures leads Gamache deep into...
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Tenhuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall with chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day. But owner Lee McKinney Woodyard is getting no love from private detective Derrick Valentine. He's looking for one of their new employees--a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been harboring for an organization that aids abused women in escaping their tormentors. Luckily, they manage to not spill the cocoa beans and clue him in. But the situation turns into a complex confection...
52) The complaints
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Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything.Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop named Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of "Dog On It", who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school, but he's a detective through and through. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.
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While leading a would-be killer into the open, Sheriff Bo Tully also pursues a seventy-five-year-old missing persons case in which a pair of gold miners (a two-man drilling team known as a double-jack) mysteriously disappeared just as they hit the mother lode in a remote part of Blight County.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Psychologist Julie West and Pastor James Burton always seem to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time-- together. They first meet at a dinner party on Palm Island, off the Georgia coast, at the home of a wealthy philanthropist. Both West and Burton thought everybody loved Roger Harden until they discover he's been murdered.
59) Get real
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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In Donald E. Westlake's Get Real, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief and the current object of his attention: laughs "land on every page" (New York Times).
Getting caught red-handed is inevitable when a TV producer convinces a thief named John Dortmunder — and his merry gang — to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees...
Getting caught red-handed is inevitable when a TV producer convinces a thief named John Dortmunder — and his merry gang — to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees...
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Thorndike Press
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[2009]
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When her twin sister, Cartwright, disappears, Cassidy Drummond can't help wondering if her father, a congressman known as much for his philandering as for his politics, has something to do with it. Desperate and deeply frightened, she turns to ex-cop PI Frank Pavlicek for help. But despite a long list of possible culprits, and the fact that Cartwright's car has been found with blood on the seats, Frank isn't convinced it's foul play.