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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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HL 750L
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It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, "Take Your Son to Work Day" was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could-from the criminal's point of view. Now, with bodies piling up in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod, Jazz must work with the police to prove that murder doesn't run in the family.
2) Down river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood -- a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he's ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fades into the faceless gray of New York City. Now...
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Seven years after the death of his father, a covert agent who supposedly committed suicide to avoid prosecution, Frank Temple is confronted by the past in the person of Devin Matteson, the old friend and associate who had betrayed his father, as well as a web of family secrets, mob assassins, and his father's shadowy legacy.
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"Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive--his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for the man who killed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF FOUR -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a...
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"When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes," is invited by his friend, a doctor, to witness an operation, he accepts the offer in hopes of furthering his capabilities as an amateur detective, but soon ends up testing those same skills. The patient who is about to undergo the delicate procedure is Abigail Doorn, the richest and most famous woman in America; the doctor who will perform it is her prot©♭g©♭,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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English
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Jack Swyteck doesn't talk about his family; especially about the fact his dad was once governor of Florida. Whenever dad, Harry, needs help, Jack is there. Harry's best friend and vice president of the United States died during an alligator hunt in the Everglades, and now the president wants Harry as his new VP. Jack finds being his father's lawyer quickly turns lethal.
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Victor Li novels volume 1
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English
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Shocked to discover that his murdered restaurateur father was actually a member of a vast crime syndicate with ties to communist China, Victor Li is confronted by decades-old grudges, escalating rivalries and an ambitious new plot.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 01
Jack Ryan universe volume 12
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Jack Ryan Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 01
Jack Ryan universe volume 12
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout...
11) The king of lies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Jackson Workman Pickens, whom most people call "Work," is a struggling North Carolina criminal defense attorney. Work has wrestled with inner demons for most of his life, especially after the death of his mother and the disappearance of his wealthy father, Ezra Pickens, a highly successful lawyer who took him into his practice. Trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by poor emotional choices and his sister's psychological trauma, Work finds himself...
12) The long fall
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
13) The dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
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California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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"When Ellery Queen and his father encounter a raging forest fire during a mountain drive, the only direction to go is up--up a winding dirt road that leads to an isolated hillside manor, inhabited by a secretive surgeon and his diverse cast of guests. Trapped by the fire, the Queens settle into the uneasy atmosphere of their surroundings. Things become even more tense the following morning when the doctor is discovered dead, apparently shot down while...
16) Missing persons
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Reluctantly agreeing to succeed his ailing sheriff father, former LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel investigates the disappearance of a renowned television minister's wife, only to become embroiled in a case involving con artists, gangs and corruption.
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"The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent occurrence--the murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty waiting room--is unlike any that has come before. Nobody, it seems, entered or exited the room, and yet the crime scene clearly has been manipulated, leaving everything in the room turned backwards and upside down. Stuck through the back of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
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Author Kevin Emerson channels Frank Cottrell Boyce in this tween sci-fi adventure about two kids from opposite sides of the country who find themselves on a road trip to save the world from an impending alien attack. Haley and Dodger have nothing in common. But that was before they learned about the strange, unexplainable phenomena in Juliette, Arizona. Before they both received summer research grants from a mysterious foundation and discovered their...
20) Back of beyond
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Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
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