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61) Up in flames
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980L
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Eighteen-year-old Ruby's sole concern is capturing the heart of Ashton, the boy next door, but when devastating wildfires engulf her world, she suddenly becomes responsible for her family's survival and works to aid the displaced undocumented community with tough choices to make.
"At eighteen, Ruby Ortega is an unapologetic flirt who balances her natural aptitude for economics with her skill in partying hard. But she couldn't care less about those...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
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English
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Spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert Benni Harper is back, investigating the connection between her favorite author, the murder of a family friend, and a crazy quilt. And when she starts receiving strange phone calls and anonymous letters telling her she'll be the next victim, her interest in the case becomes even more urgent.
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Homicide detective Frank Harriman reopens an old case when the discovery of the sabotaged plane and corpse of Philip Lefebvre, a detective widely believed to have been involved in a triple murder ten years earlier, is found in the San Bernadino Mountains, bringing home the realization that the real murderer is still at large.
64) Dead man's gold
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In a remote mining camp in California's rugged Sierra Mountains, a small group of men, women, and children are weathering a slow winter-until a band of trigger-happy, whiskey-slugging thieves comes in search of stolen gold. But what these ruffians didn't count on is having to reckon with the Underhills in a fiery battle that will leave some six feet under...and others rich beyond their wildest dreams.
65) The vanishing
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Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian Howells work to find the link between a bloody rampage by a Beverly Hills CEO and a monstrous change befalling children all across California.
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2024.
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"When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. ... But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent. ... In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record,...
67) The nightriders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Zachary Cobb goes undercover to investigate a gang of vigilantes, which, under the control of corrupt federal officials, has been prosecuting and persecuting men suspected of a series of unsolved gold robberies.
68) The forty-niners
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Forty-Niners volume 01
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English
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In January of 1848, the discovery of gold in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the deams of Americans from coast to coast. For Cord Bennett, it was more that a dream. Forced to leave the Ozarks, he reluctantly joins his brothers on the journey west. Together, they endure harsh weather, fierce tribal attacks, and roving outlaws. But their biggest challenge comes when they reach the gold-rich canyon of Rio Oro. This makeshift town is barely...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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It's the height of the tourist season in Santa Cruz, California, and Sally Solari has her hands full, both juggling crowds of hungry diners at her French-Polynesian restaurant Gauguin, as well as appeasing her father, who's distressed at the number of homeless people camped out in front of Solari's, the family's Italian seafood restaurant out on the historic fisherman's wharf. Nevertheless, when Sally gets the opportunity to volunteer at a farm-to-table...
70) Pie in the sky
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
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English
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"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--
71) Dream town
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Eve Ronin novels volume 5
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"Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...
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To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his...
74) Rouge: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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In this savage tale of love, greed, and redemption in America's early frontier, famed lawman, Jon Stoudenmire, is on a quest to find peace at his vineyard paradise. Near his journey's end and anxious to settle down with his true love Elizabeth Thompson, Jon meets up with his long-lost cousin Cliff Stone. Stone asks Jon to stay and join his fight against greedy gold mining magnate George Stanton. Reluctant at first, after a shootout with one of...
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Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is, asked to lead a group of young grandnieces and grandnephews on a walk through the hills of California's Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all. In one of his most elegiac stories, Eggers gives us a beautiful testament to family, memory, and what we,...
77) A time to run
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Written with a true insider's perspective, A Time to Run is the remarkable literary debut of United States Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most admired and respected figures on the political scene. Senator Boxer, writing with Mary-Rose Hayes, tells an exciting tale of friendship and betrayal, idealism and pragmatism, in-fighting and public spin. The novel follows Ellen Fines from her days as a college student through romantic entanglements and a...
78) Richter 10
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A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1100L
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English
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The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies.
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Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific discoveries made possible the creation of the most terrible weapon the world had ever known. But he made another discovery that he chose to reveal to no one-to keep from human hands a power that dwarfed the atomic bomb.
When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her recently deceased grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank,...
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