Peter Abrahams
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
3) Bullet point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
4) End of story
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Language
English
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Description
Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by enigmatic codes of honor, ceaseless aggression and absolutely savage violence. But one of the prisoners there is unlike any of the others, and unlike any man she...
5) Delusion
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Language
English
Description
"A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago"--From publisher description.
6) Nerve damage
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Language
English
Description
Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well-known sculptor in the art world. His newest piece, a magnificent creation he calls Delia, has just been finished, a sign that he's found a little closure at last. Then Roy gets some news of the grimmest kind. It's the kind of news that forces...
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
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Language
English
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A thrilling adventure set in the world of underwater diving from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Deciding on her thirty-ninth birthday that a baby is the best present she could give herself, single Manhattan public relations executive Nina Kitchener makes an appointment to undergo artificial insemination at the Human Fertility Institute. Nine months later, the nightmare begins....
9) Hard rain
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Language
English
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Description
Hailed by Stephen King as "my favorite American suspense novelist," Peter Abrahams who is also known as Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries, delivers a gripping thriller about a woman caught up in a conspiracy spawned at the 1969 Woodstock Festival Los Angeles single mother Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend, Pat fails...
10) Tongues of Fire
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Language
English
Description
A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies-and the enemies of Israel-will pay. Months later, Rehv, who is a former literary scholar and professor...
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Language
English
Description
Discover how the individual parts of the human body function and work together: in this accessible and fascinating examination, you can navigate through the body from head to toe, looking at each individual area. As you read The Human Body, you will find out incredible facts, such as:
• The average person produces about 0.75-1.1ml tears (lacrimal fluid) every day
• A marathon runner achieves 40 percent greater cardiac output than an untrained...
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Language
English
Description
A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller from Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead-the victim of a savage stabbing-and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But...
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Language
English
Description
A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you up all night?
16) Oblivion
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Language
English
Description
Nick Petrov is a brilliant private investigator with a reputation for bringing missing children safely home. Launched to tabloid stardom when he apprehended a brutal serial killer named Gerald Reasoner, Petrov has become something of a celebrity. When a woman approaches him, begging him to use his unique gifts to find her missing daughter, Petrov's instincts sound an alarm. He senses that she's concealing something. But is she lying to get Petrov's...
17) Into the Dark #3
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hall tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an enviromental activist found dead on his farm.
18) Down Rabbit Hole
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
19) The tutor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julian Sawyer, hired by the Gardners to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, quickly becomes a favorite with the family, providing business advice to mom and stock tips to dad, all the while setting them up for his own purposes, but in his plans, Julian makes the mistake of overlooking eleven-year-old Ruby, the only member of the family to realize Julian is not what he seems.
20) The Fan
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Description
Tells the story of a baseball superstar and a passionate fan whose fates become intertwined when the player hits a slump and the fan's adoration evolves into compulsion.