Johnny Heller
1) Noir
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English
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Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
2) The rescue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
740L
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English
Description
In the face of raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: he can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts to become truly intimate. When a raging storm hits his small Southern town,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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With schooling behind him, Josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has drifted to a standstill.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
On the brink of manhood, Josh's world is filled with studies and life with Aunt Lou and the menfolk, along with an occasional fishing trip thrown in. When a new teacher arrives, Josh thrives under his encouragement--as well as from the attentions of the theacher's pretty daughter. Josh faces important questions about life and love--and about himself.
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As the youngest bureau chief and head of the Chicago PD's Major Case Squad, Boone Drake seems to have it all under control. Only those closest to him know that a few years ago he'd lost everything that mattered to him. Recently, Boone married a wonderful woman named Haeley, adopted her son, bought a beautiful home, and rediscovered his faith. Then an all-too-personal case takes Boone to Beijing at a time when Haeley can least afford to let him go....
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"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will." One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the...
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English
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Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Josh is in a quandry. Matilda is vivacious and lovely; Mary is sweet and supportive. And they won't remain single for very long. But how is he to go about courting someone he sees in his kitchen nearly every day? And, more importantly, whom does he truly love?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh was being raised by his eighteen-year-old Aunt Lou. When he overheard Grandpa and Uncle Charlie talking about finding a fella for her, he knew something had to be done so his special family would not be broken up. Then, when that poor preacher came along, it really got complicated!
11) The reason
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English
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When a lightning bolt shatters a decorative cross in the yard of a church in a small town in Michigan, a carpenter shows up to repair it. But the carpenter is no ordinary man, as the church pastor, his odd family, and local medical staff treating his adoptive grandchild for leukemia find out in a series of miraculous events that change them dramatically.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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• Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke Awards •
The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out
"An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. The Postmortal is . . . even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse." — Mark Frauenfelder,...
The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out
"An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. The Postmortal is . . . even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse." — Mark Frauenfelder,...
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"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive...
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Henry Kimball volume 01
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English
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"A dark and devious literary suspense novel about a random encounter, sex, and a conversation that quickly turns to murder--a modern reimagining of Patricia Highsmith's classic Strangers on a Train--from the author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart"--
15) Jungle up
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Series
Thomas Prescott novels volume 5
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English
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"Please find me, Thomas! Please!" Two years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott's heart, but now her panic-stricken satellite phone call starts it beating again with a fury. Thugs kidnapped the good doctor from the remote jungle village where she was working, and now the retired homicide detective's expert skills are desperately needed to save her. Led by a colorful, but perhaps untrustworthy local guide, Prescott journeys deep into the Bolivian...
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"With his best and craziest days behind him, a Florida call center employee struggles through mind-numbing drudgery day after day--but he just might have a way to reclaim the madness and his former life. The zombie apocalypse is over. The humans have won. Life is back to normal. And Rip is bored as hell. It's not much of a life sitting in a call center in the poor town of Spanish Shanty, Florida, answering emails like a drone and listening to customer...
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"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
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"Online Dating Ghostwriting Rules to Live by MILES: Dumped by his fianc©♭e, not only is Miles couch-surfing across New York City, but downsizing has forced him to set up shop at a caf©♭. Also, he no longer believes in love. Not a good look in his line of work . . . Do not present a "perfect" image. No one will trust it. Nor should they. ZOEY: Zoey's eccentric L.A. boss sent her packing to New York to "grow." But beneath her chill Cali demeanor,...
19) The swallows
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English
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A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going...
20) Acts of violet
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public hasn't wavered. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister, Sasha, ever the responsible one, took over their mother's salon and built a quiet life for her daughter, Quinn. But Sasha can never seem to escape her sister's orbit or her memories of their unresolved, tumultuous relationship....