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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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After she moves to New York City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey Dean learns that the television industry is filled with treachery. A killer is targeting a series of beautiful actresses, each one a former star struggling to get back into the limelight.
83) The God hater
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A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor loves to shred the faith of incoming freshmen. He is chosen by a group of scientists to create a philosophy for a computer-generated world exactly like ours, but every model he introduces fails. The only way to preserve the computer world is to introduce laws from outside their system through a Law Giver. When a rival introduces a virus into the computer world, the only way to save it is to personally absorb...
84) Holly blues
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2010
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China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop claiming to be broke with nowhere else to turn. China isn't sure if it's the goodness of her heart or the scent of Christmas wreaths, but she invites Sally to stay. Then China starts receiving menacing phone calls from an ex of Sally's, who seems to have a connection to the murder of her parents nearly a decade ago. With her P.I. husband out of town,...
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Thorndike Press
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2010.
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Emily Gray returns to visit Baxter, Maine, after seven years of building a career as a journalist in the city and simply seeks rest in the slow-paced small town. As if reuniting with old flame Nate Holman isn't exciting enough, when the two of them take a box of groceries to an island resident, they find him dead inside his cottage. Can Emily's nose for news unravel the homicide at Blue Heron Lake?
86) Hunter's moon
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Bestselling novelist CJ Baxter has made a career out of writing hard-hitting stories ripped from his own life, but with Graham Baxter, CJ's brother, running for Senate, a black sheep digging up old secrets is the last thing the family and campaign can afford.
87) Junkyard dogs
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Missing body parts and dead developers are only the beginning when Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire finds himself in the throes of a modern-day range war. It's a volatile new economy in Durant when the owners of a multi-million-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. The notorious Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself and, when conflicts erupt, Walt and his team find themselves in a small town pressure cooker....
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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With a newborn in the house, the last thing the Cunningham family needs is a new pet. Besides Trish hates cats. Especially after she finds a body with a clear trail of kitty litter leading away from it. Will her pussyfooting around for clues make Trish the next victim of the Kitty Litter Killer?--From publisher's description.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Dr. Anna McIntyre's life is in chaos after a patient dies because of an identity mix-up, her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions, and her credit is in ruins. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, she receives an envelope with a positive HIV test bearing her name.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"Women are going missing in Los Angeles. Two have been found mutilated and dead. And Madison Rose would have been the next victim if it hadn't been for Doug and Dodi Dedham. They saved her life that terrible night. And that's how she discovered what the harmless-looking, gray-haired couple really were - vampires. Incredulous, terrified, and reluctantly fascinated, Madison gradually learns about the vampire way of life - and how the killer is putting...
91) Pray for silence
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The Plank family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters Mill, Ohio, less than a year ago and seemed the model of the Plain Life. On a cold October night, the entire family of seven is found slaughtered on their farm. Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force, assisted by state agent John Tomasetti, have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets...
92) Scent of murder
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Everything is going wrong for Caitlin Saylor. Her boyfriend has left her. Her musical trio is disbanding. And for their trio's swan song? They'll be playing another wedding: a chance to watch someone else's happy ending. And then, unexpectedly, Chase Hollister enters the scene. The candle factory owner is handsome, charming and very interested in Caitlin. His gift of a special candle proves it. But there's something more to the candle than Caitlin...
94) Simple secrets
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Gracie Temple's uncle left her a house in a rural Mennonite community. Gracie soon learns he secluded himself for years to protect a secret about her own father. Now it's up to Gracie to decide if she'll keep the secret or if she can afford to expose it. Sam Goodrich loves his fruit farm in Harmony, Kansas. But when he meets city-girl Gracie, he begins to wonder if he could leave it behind for a woman who makes him feel things he's never felt before....
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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Cooper Lee can repair a copy machine - but can she repair her life? That's one of the many questions that lead the newly single Richmond girl to Sunrise Bible Study at the Hope Street Church. And she could use some new friends, and a new outlook on life. Then she finds that the church member who invited her to join the group - an office worker who got her wedding ring stuck in a copier - is dead, and her husband is suspected of murder!
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chaos erupts in the crowded household of expectant parents-to-be Meg Langslow and her husband, Caerphilly College associate professor Michael Waterston. Not only are they hosting numerous students made temporarily homeless due to a broken college heating plant but their library becomes a crime scene after the murder of English department diva Jean Wright. At first, it appears Wright received a fatal blow from an Egyptian fertility goddess statue,...
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Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scents he encounters when an old-fashioned traveling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less-than-greatest-show-on-earth because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only problem is that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one-ring circus, has gone missing--along...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Hilde Higgins has an unexplainable dislike of clowns. Trouble is, she's fallen for a handsome stockbroker who moonlights as a clown at the children's hospital. When two members of Clowns for Christ end up dead, Hilde's boyfriend becomes a suspect for murder. Has she misjudged the man she thought Adam Sawyer to be? Can Hilde solve the mystery before a Kansas twister blows all the evidence away?