Mary Higgins Clark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of George Washington from the time he steps down from the presidency to return with Martha to his beloved Mount Vernon home, a period during which the couple shares a renewal of feelings from the early years of their marriage.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
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After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her english professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge.
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Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 9
Alvirah and Willy volume 08
Regan Reilly mystery volume 09
Alvirah and Willy volume 05
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Alvirah and Willy volume 08
Regan Reilly mystery volume 09
Alvirah and Willy volume 05
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Lottery-winner-turned-amateur-sleuth Alvirah Meehan rejoins P.I. Regan Reilly to solve a Christmas mystery. Last time, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father in Deck the Halls. This time they're involved in a dangerous case involving an 80-foot Blue Spruce and a hidden fortune of jewels. Alvirah and Regan know this tree has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree. But just before the tree is sent to New York City,...
7) Silent night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
While accompanying her husband to New York where he is to have a life-saving operation, Catherine Dornan takes her two sons to see some of the city's Christmas sights. When a woman finds and takes her wallet, the younger boy follows the woman into the subway, thus beginning a journey that will not only threaten his life, but change that of the woman and his mother, as well.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Regina Clausen was forty-three, successful in her career but insecure and unfulfilled in her personal life. Travelling alone on the luxury liner Gabrielle, she disembarked in Hong Kong saying she would rejoin the ship when it docked in Japan. She was never seen again. . . Five years later, radio presenter Susan Chandler does a series about vanishing women on her radio talk show. When a caller, who refuses to identify herself, tells of meeting a man...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kay Lansing marries Peter Carrington, who has a shadow of suspicion hanging over him regarding the death of a neighbor's daughter two decades earlier and the drowning of his first wife four years before; Kay begins to doubt her husband's innocence and uncovers memories that may cost her life.
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Language
English
Description
Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A dark secret threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when their family-owned furniture firm, famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. What was Kate, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and whose sister is a rising fashion...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Laurie Moran's professional life is a success. Her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand -- Ryan Nichols -- and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
16) As time goes by
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Language
English
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"In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Steve Frawley return from an evening out to discover their three-year-old twins have been kidnapped and an eight-million dollar ransom demanded, but even though Frawley's employer pays the money, only Kelly is returned, and Kathy is believed to have been killed until Kelly insists she is in telepathic communication with her sister who is alive but in grave danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change...
19) I'll walk alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
20) Stillwatch
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States. With the help of an old flame, Congresman Sam Kingsley, Pat delves into Abigail's life, only to turn up horrifying facts...