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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
HL 800L
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English
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An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the...
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In the isolated villages of northern Scotland, the residents rely on chimney sweep Pete Ray. After Police Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a dead body stuffed inside a chimney, the entire town of Lochdubh suspects Pete. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens.
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Prey series volume 25
Thorndike Press large print basic
Prey novel volume 25
Lucas Davenport novel volume 25
Thorndike Press large print basic
Prey novel volume 25
Lucas Davenport novel volume 25
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English
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They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes, they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out...
4) Don't blink
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 6
Walt Longmire mystery volume 06
Walt Longmire mystery volume 6
Thorndike Press large print crime scene
Walt Longmire mystery volume 06
Walt Longmire mystery volume 6
Thorndike Press large print crime scene
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English
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After a severed thumb turns up at the dump outside of Durant, Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire ignores the fact that someone has claimed it. He needs a mystery to keep Deputy Santiago Saizarbitoria, who's suffering from “bullet fever,” on the job until he can think of a way to keep him from quitting. It's just that sort of kindness that defines Longmire, whose unwillingness to assume the worst leads to him getting pepper-sprayed, bit in the ass,...
6) After Anna
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"Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing. Events take a deadly turn when...
7) My story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise,...
8) Don't let go
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"Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon 'Nap' Dumas hasn't been the same since his senior year of high school, when his twin brother, Leo, and Leo's girlfriend, Diana, were found dead on the railroad tracks--and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 17
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English
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Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common -- the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
11) Of mutts and men
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"When Chet the dog and his partner, PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they find that Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Bernie might be the only one who thinks the police have arrested the wrong man, including the perp's own defense attorney. Chet and Bernie look into Wendell's work, a search that leads to...
12) The late show
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Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. It's a frustrating assignment for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute...
13) 1st case
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"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
14) Cross justice
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Alex Cross novels volume 23
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English
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"Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. Now his cousin is accused of an unthinkable murder, and Cross returns to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak. Chasing ghosts takes Cross to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he's pulled into a case needing...
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 8
Rizzoli and Isles volume 08
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Rizzoli and Isles novel volume 08
Rizzoli and Isles volume 08
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Rizzoli and Isles novel volume 08
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English
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Boston medical examiner Maura Isles's SUV stalls on a mountain road, leaving her and her friends to seek refuge in the seemingly abandoned village called Kingdom Come, but when Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives word that Maura's charred body was discovered in a ravine, she sets out to hunt down the killer and unravel the secrets concerning Maura's fate.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
17) Festive in death
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In Death series volume 39
Naked in death volume 39
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
In death novel) volume 39
Naked in death volume 39
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
In death novel) volume 39
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English
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Eve Dallas deals with a homicide and the holiday season. Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn't count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest. Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who'd been loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat. While Dallas sorts through the list of Ziegler's enemies, she's also dealing with her Christmas shopping list -- plus the guest list for her and her billionaire...
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Murder she wrote volume 33
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English
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Jessica Fletcher knows better than anyone that creativity is meant to be nurtured. So when a young lady from Cabot Cove shows promise as a country-andwestern singer and songwriter, Jessica and a local citizens' committee send the talented teen on a scholarship trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she can benefit from professional instruction. But only weeks after the farewell party, Cabot Cove is shocked to hear of the cold-blooded murder of a brash...
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Women's Murder Club volume 18
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Detective Lindsay Boxer teams up with intrepid journalist Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of three schoolteachers amid rumors of a notorious Eastern European war criminal spotted on the streets of San Francisco.
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