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1) Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The past Janeal thought had burned away is rising from the ashes. Years ago, the Gypsy Kumpania where Janeal Mikkado lived was attacked by outsiders. With her best friend about to be consumed by a fire, Janeal had two options: try to save her friend--at serious risk to her own life--or disappear with the million dollars that she had just discovered . . . But the past is quickly coming back to haunt her. Both the best friend and the boyfriend that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men--men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn't even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel's worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared...
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Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Marc Royce works for the State Department on special assignments, most of them rather routine, until two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq--kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region. Two others also drop out of sight--a high-placed Iraqi civilian and an American woman providing humanitarian aid. Are the disappearances linked? Rumors circulate in a whirl of misinformation. Marc must unravel the truth in a covert operation...
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Call of duty volume 2
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Border Patrol Agent Danika Morales has sworn to protect the southern borders of the U.S., but that oath has cost her dearly. She has paid a heavier price than most: her husband, Toby, was murdered two years ago trying to help the very immigrants Danika was responsible for sending back to Mexico-and his murder has never been solved. Now a string of attacks and arrests leads her to believe that someone from McAllen profits from sneaking undocumented...
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Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
7) Heart of Ice
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Series
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
c2010. 2011
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English
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At the Portland Fitness Center, Cassidy joins the boot camp class run by the beautiful instructor Elizabeth Avery, unaware that Elizabeth served time in a juvenile facility for two horrific crimes committed at age 13 when she was known as Sissy Hewsom. The icy sociopath has already had her fellow former inmate, firebug Joey Decicco, burn down the home of Sara McCloud, her gorgeous lawyer boyfriend's money-grubbing ex-wife, and Elizabeth now wants...
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Heroes of Quantico volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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FBI special agent Nick Bradley has seen his share of kooks during his fifteen years with the Bureau. Rachel Sutton is not like the rest-she seems completely normal when she shows up at the FBI office in St. Louis. But when she pulls out a tattered Raggedy Ann doll and tells him that when she touches it she's overcome by a strange feeling that something is terribly wrong, Nick dismisses her. When he stumbles across a link between the doll and an...
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Key to all mythologies volume 1
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English
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"It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen...
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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...
12) Firestorm
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English
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"For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough... Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam. Together they're a great team, but her life is about to change in the time it takes to strike a match. The deadly flames of her past are back, and from out of the ashes a stranger...
13) Phantom prey
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English
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
14) Bullets High
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
c1954, 2010
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English
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Ranger Jim Hatfield rode into Bowman the blood-stained body of Bill Carter slung across his saddle. would they believe him when he told them that he wasn't the killer-that he'd downed the gunslicks who'd ambushed Carter? Hatfield knew they wouldn't. Lynch law ruled the Pecos country now-brother pitted against brother in a abitter struggle for an oil-rich land that was ripe for plunder. Alone and hunted, the Texan fingered the stock of his .45, knowing...
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Evil thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Maddox Bishop is an emotionally scarred man after entering a crime scene in his own home some 18 years earlier and finding his mother's dead body. Set on never opening his heart to a woman, Maddox can't seem to fight the growing bond developing between himself and a potential wrongdoer, Layla Taylor, a contractor and recent victim of heartbreak. Strong wills clash as the two discover they have to work together to unravel the escalating...
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The only female in Keegan McKettrick's life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family's corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian Rock on a mission--and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan's full-time hobby. Molly doesn't know why she's attracted to a man who's determined to dig up dirt on her, even if he is gorgeous. But cynical Keegan...
17) The smoke jumper
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English
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Julia Bishop must choose between two best friends who both love her, in a story of love, loyalty, honor, and guilt set against the perilous backdrop of wilderness fire fighting and photojournalism.
18) Cross
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Among the villains Alex Cross has faced--Gary Soneji, Casanova, Kyle Craig, The Wolf--one psychopath tops them all. Alex knows him as his wife's killer. Alex may have a chance to catch his wife's murderer after all these years. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the culminating scene in his own deadly obsession?
19) On Thin Ice
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Series
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago-two weeks before their intended wedding day-tragedy tore Megan Brooks and Alec Black apart, and they haven't seen each other since. But someone has been watching them-and attacking members of the would-be bridal party. Megan is being stalked and already two of her friends have become victims of murder. She knows it's time to confront her past and find answers. With nowhere else to turn, Megan knows she must head home to Whisper Lake,...