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Sheldon's latest begins with the trial of a San Francisco doctor, Paige Taylor, who in 1995 is accused of killing a patient to gain access to a large inheritance. The narrative then backs up to 1990 and chronicles the journeys of Taylor, Honey Taft, and Kat Hunter, the only three females in a group of new residents at Embarcadero County Hospital. The women, who quickly become roommates and friends, face long hours, a frenetic work pace, and unwanted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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820L
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"When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860"--WorldCat.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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870L
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After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again. But the hardships of the trail soon force Missie and Willie to become rugged pioneers. Missie must learn how to live her faith, and then, when they finally...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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840L
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Belinda Davis is restless. As her friends get married and have children of their own, she wonders what God has in store for her. Her life as a nurse seems dull and routine. She craves excitement and adventure. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to travel to Boston, a large, vibrant city so unlike the little prairie town where she was raised. Opportunities for books, theatre and the luxuries of life...
11) Blood lure
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Anna has joined a bear research team in Glacier Park. They hope to gather enough information to form a picture of its Grizzly bear population. When the body of a camper is discovered with a broken neck and mutilated face, Anna sets out to find what, or who is responsible for the carnage.
13) The millionaires
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
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Brothers Charlie and Oliver Caruso work at the exclusive bank Greene and Greene but when the brothers find out that a colleague has been sabotaging Oliver's career plans they conspire to steel $3 million from a deceased client's account. With the Secret Service closing in and a friend found dead the brothers must escape to Florida to try and clear their names.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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1210L
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English
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Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with Bryson's comic genius, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude and to witness the majestic silliness...
15) Found money
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Amy Parkens, a single mother down on her luck finds $200,000 in cash that arrives in an unmarked box. There is no card, no note, no return address. Someone has simply sent her a small fortune. She goes searching for the source and crosses paths with Ryan Duffy, a small-town doctor who is trying to find out why his father had millions of dollars secretly stashed in his attic. What follows is a dangerous quest of deception and blackmail, leading to...
16) Daybreak
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Margaret and Arthur Crawfield discover that the son they love dearly who is now dying is not their child. Suspecting a hospital mix-up, the Crawfields feel compelled to search for their biological child who has grown up in another home, although they know this may tear apart another family.
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"On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later,...
18) Cold paradise
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Stone Barrington novels volume 7
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Luxuriating in the winter warmth of a Palm Beach cafe, Stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead: the beautiful Allison Manning, a woman he had defended against a murder charge on a Caribbean island in Dead in the Water. Allison is alive and well-and suddenly very rich. And she needs a favor: Might Stone help her square a charge of insurance fraud that's been hanging over her head for years? But first, Stone must find the man who is...
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Three women do not consider themselves victims of rape--they are survivors and helped in the investigation that caught their attacker. Now they are prime suspects in his murder. Could one of these women have been driven to do the unthinkable? When another woman is attacked, the survivors club fear they fingered the wrong man. Now the real killer is still out there.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 3
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"Dave Robicheaux, ex-New Orleans policeman whose wife was killed by drug lords, lives quietly in New Iberia, running a bait and tackle shop and taking care of Alafair, the little Central American girl he and his wife rescued from the Gulf after a plane crash. Then his friend and college roommate comes to him for help, and Dave is thrown into the violent world of professional killers and the mafia, as he follows a trail to Montana to get out of a murder...
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