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Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
With this gripping true crime anthology, the first in a 5-book series, former Seattle policewoman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule turns her unflinching eye on compelling true crime accounts from her personal case files.
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattle city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The catastrophe left three dead -- including Cool -- and dozens injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds very...
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A collection of true crime stories from the personal files of author Anne Rule.
Author
Series
Barbie rules! volume 2
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stacie knows that her big sister, Barbie, will help her find a way to handle any problem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini and flamboyant lifestyle in western New York State suggested a highly successful career. But appearances, as this shocking insider account of Pignataro's tailspin from physician to prisoner proves, can be deceiving. Slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly is: pure evil.
Author
Series
Willimena rules volume rule 2
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Willimena feels left out when her cousin Teddy comes to visit. When Teddy catches a big fish, Willimena decides to catch an even bigger one.
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
An absorbing portrayal of true-crime lovers who kill and the men and women who are their victims.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love--it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree...
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Two-thirds of the book is devoted to one case, the disappearance of an elderly sea captain from his quiet community of Lopez Island in Washington State. As with many of the stories recounted in previous volumes, Rule succeeds in pulling the reader into a mystery that was largely of local concern. With a novelist's skill, she brings to life the missing Norwegian mariner, Rolf Neslund, and his difficult marriage to Ruth Myers, who became the prime suspect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Collects true crime stories about sociopaths who kill ruthlessly, including the tale of a sea captain who is tricked into marriage and cheated out of his fortune by the mother of his illegitimate children before being murdered by her and her brother.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven fearless friends who call themselves The Sisterhood have become national heroines for bringing to justice villains who thought themselves above the law. Now fugitives themselves, the women are on the run from Mitch Riley, an assistant director of the FBI.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.