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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 61
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1090L
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Charles Dickens's last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend" is the story of "Noddy" Boffin, a common clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman" after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, "Our Mutual Friend" is a masterpiece that explores the allure and curse of money while demonstrating all the themes the author is famous for. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer...
2) Jade city
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Green Bone saga volume 1
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"For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors have used magical jade to enhance their abilities and defend the island of Kekon from foreign invasion. Now the war is over and a new generation vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. Four siblings of the powerful Kaul family must prepare for battle...and the fragile peace between the clans is about to break."--
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Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment- a violent crime of passion- is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there...
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"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace's understanding. Shawn...
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Family business volume 2
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The members of the Duncan family try to juggle their day jobs running a respectable car dealership with their criminal activities controlling most of the East Coast's drug traffic.
6) Dark room
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Seventeen years after the brutal double murder of her parents, Morgan Winter finds her life in turmoil when she discovers that the wrong person was convicted for the crime, and realizes that the true killer has been silently watching her all along.
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The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner's heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean...
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Ernest Cunningham volume 01
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started."--...
10) Influence
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Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
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English
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When her son's graduation is upended by a drug charge, lawyer Jacqueline Hudson builds a defense case opposite her ex, a situation that is further complicated by family drama.
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"When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one--and the result is as gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love--and murder. But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit"--
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Family business volume 3
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English
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Agreeing to surrender the family business to his younger brother after a long stint in prison, Vegas Duncan battles his disapproving mother and a mysterious rival who attacks Vegas' older brother.
13) 11 missed calls
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"Anna has always believed that her mother, Debbie, died 30 years ago on the night she disappeared. But when her father gets a strange note, she realises that she's never been told the full story of what happened that night on the cliff. Confused and upset, Anna turns to her husband Jack - but when she finds a love letter from another woman in his wallet, she realises there's no-one left to help her, least of all her family. And then a body is found.....
14) Walk in the fire
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Judah Cannon novels volume 2
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English
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Judah Cannon is trying to extricate the Cannon family from the crime ring they are known and feared for when he finds himself in the sights of Everett Weaver, a cold blooded killer and drug runner from Daytona Beach. Meanwhile, ATF Special Agent Clive Grant arrives from Atlanta to investigate a fire at Sister Tulah's church, and becomes obsessed with Tulah's iron grip on Bradford County and determined to take her down. His investigation leads him...
15) Family sins
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Felled by a cowardly shot to the back, Stanton Youngblood has just enough time before he dies to leave a single clue to his killer's identity: the word Wayne, scrawled in his own blood. That word means everything to his widow. Leigh Youngblood was once Leigh Wayne, but she left her wealthy family behind thirty years ago when she fell in love with Stanton, a betrayal the Waynes have never forgiven. Now she publicly vows to discover which of her siblings...
16) The eighth day
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In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the Rio Grande border town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched "The Eighth Day," a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two families blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other. The miraculous escape of the accused killer, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom triggers a powerful...
17) The girlfriend
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Laura Cavendish can't wait to meet the woman who's won her son's affection. She pictures his new girlfriend, Cherry, becoming a close friend and confidante. But although Cherry is beautiful and amiable, there's something about the possessive way she touches Daniel. Cherry seems to be driving a wedge between mother and son--until one day Daniel is injured in a terrible accident. Six months later, Laura makes a fateful decision--and carries out an astonishing...
18) The nanny
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On a hot night in the summer of 1987, Hannah, the Holt family's nanny, left Lake Hall without a trace, devastating seven-year-old Jo. Haunted by the loss of the woman she loved more than anyone, Jo grew up blaming her beautiful, aristocratic mother, Virginia. Thirty years later in the wake of tragedy, Jo returns to her faded childhood home and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with Virginia. But the fraught peace between mother and daughter...
19) City on fire
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"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves...
20) In close
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When her husband dies in a freak accident after launching his own investigation into her mother's strange disappearance fifteen years earlier, Claire O'Toole will stop at nothing to find the truth even though someone in Pineview, Montana is prepared to kill to keep her from finding the answers.
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