Sa-Ra
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English
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he vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
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Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
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English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
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Snow like ashes trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
910L
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English
Description
When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses -- the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay.
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"From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans...
5) Overboard
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 21
V.I. Warshawski
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 21
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 22
V.I. Warshawski
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 21
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 22
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English
Description
In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
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"A dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder, and romance, set in Hawaii in 1943 and 1965, follows two women--a cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the grand opening of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. 1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in "the dungeon" at Station HYPO in Pearl...
7) Body work
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English
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A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a woman connected to the performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
8) Unbelievable
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Pretty little liars volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
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English
Description
"Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars--because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: she's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me, Hanna's going to look like the lucky one"--P. [4] of cover.
9) Wicked
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Pretty little liars volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
840L
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English
Description
The four former best friends, Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria, try to overcome their friend Ali's murder, but become alarmed when they receive text messages from the mysterious "A" and learn that their friend's accused killer has been released from jail on bail.
10) Critical mass
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Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I Warshawski novel volume 16
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 16
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Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I Warshawski novel volume 16
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 16
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English
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"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate,...
11) Shell game
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English
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When V. I Warshawski gets word that her closest friend and mentor Lotty Herschel's nephew has become a suspect in a murder, the legendary detective will do everything she can to save him. The cops found Felix Herschel's name and phone number on the unknown victim's remains, but Felix insists he doesn't know why. As Vic digs deeper, she discovers that the dead man was obsessed with Middle Eastern archaeology-the first clue in a bewildering case that...
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Series
Pretty little liars volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.
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Pretty little liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
14) Dead land
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English
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"Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when...
15) Wanted
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Pretty little liars volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
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English
Description
Former best friends Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily, who lost their best friend and leader, Alison, years ago when she disappeared, find themselves in grave danger when they pursue the truth about Alison.
16) Flawless
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Pretty little liars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
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English
Description
After their friend who has been missing for more than three years turns up dead, four former best friends continue to receive frightening messages from someone who knows damaging secrets about them.
17) Blacklist
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
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English
Description
Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.
18) The lying game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
19) Brush back
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English
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"For six weeks in high school, V.I. Warshawski thought she was in love with Frank Guzzo. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks. She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner. Newly released from prison, she is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V.I. for help. V.I. doesn't want to get involved. Stella hated...
20) Bleeding Kansas
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The Schapen family have made it their mission to keep track of their neighbors' misdeeds and dirty secrets and print them on their family web site, and when Gina Haring, a Wiccan, moves into town and start practicing pagan rites, the Schapens take it upon themselves to run her out of town.