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Secrets of Roux River Bayou volume 3
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English
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Sax Landry left home at seventeen to escape his father's abuse, leaving his mother and sister to fend for themselves. Now, twenty-eight years later, both parents are dead, and guilt compels him to find his sister and make peace. His search leads to Les Barbes, Louisiana, where authorities fear a bio-terrorist has injected cyanide into juice cartons and fresh produce at the grocery store. People are dead. It's not safe. Sax stays, fearing death less...
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Katharine Lawrence, assistant to the head of the National Security Agency, finds herself and her friend, Lisa, lying bound and gagged, while two masked gunmen search her house; she knows only that, unless they can escape, whatever the men are searching for could end up getting them killed.
3) Shatterproof
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
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English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill are no strangers to impossible tasks. After seven of their relatives were kidnapped, the siblings scoured Europe for the priceless artifacts Vesper One demanded in exchange for the hostages. But then the Cahill kids are given an assignment that pushes them to their breaking point, a journey to a legendary city. Amy and Dan know they can't afford to fail, yet they're running out of options and running out of time.
4) Dark places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
5) Snap
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Waking up to discover a knife and sinister note in her bed, a young woman is connected to a string of burglaries and the brutal murder of a mother of three"--
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"Lauren Owen's thrilling first novel introduces an utterly beguiling world. London, 1893: James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a happiness long denied to him, he vanishes without a trace....
7) Slade house
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English
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"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners...
9) Kiss
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she tries to sort out what happened that night by jarring her memory to life. Instead, she acquires a mysterious mental ability that will either lead her to truth or get her killed by the people trying to hide it.
10) Shadow storm
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"As the youngest member of the Ferraro family, Emmanuelle has watched each of her brothers find happiness in love while her own heart was shattered by a lover's betrayal. For two years she's stayed as far away from Valentino Saldi as possible--until she learns that he's been shot during a hostile takeover of his family's territory. Emme's first instinct is to call her brother Stefano for help, and soon the entire Ferraro clan arrives to bring Val...
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"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..." I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size. It's a shock that makes my breath catch. This is my brother as an adult, my brother who I last saw fifteen years ago after the fire that killed our parents, covered in soot, clutching a lighter in his hand, his knuckles stark white against the dirt and ash....
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"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
14) Heads you lose
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English
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Pot-growing siblings Paul and Lacey Hansen must investigate why the headless corpse of Lacey's ex-fiance turned up on their property, in a metafictional mystery where the authors disagree as to how the story should progress.
15) Make them pay
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Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
While tracking down dozens of children sold through illegal adoptions, Lucy Kincaid must deal with her fiance Sean's estranged sister, who, arriving two weeks before the wedding, needs something Sean has, and if she doesn't get it, every member of their family will end up dead--including Sean.
16) My sister Rosa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
17) One false move
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English
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When a bank robbery goes horribly wrong, leaving six people dead, con artist Melanie Starks, her seventeen-year-old son Charlie, and a paroled prisoner take an innocent author hostage and hide out in his secluded cabin in Platte River State Park.
18) The poison tree
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English
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Picking up Rex after a ten-year prison sentence for murder, Karen remembers the bohemian summer in 1990s London when their carefree romance and excesses became subject to a complicated family history and ended in violence.
19) The snakes
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English
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'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air. Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
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