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1) Toxin
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
2) Icy Sparks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
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It is a find of inestimable value for Karen Holloway. The battered manuscript she holds in her hand-written in the nineteenth century and bearing the mysterious attribution "Ismene"--Could prove a boon to the eager young English professor's career. But Karen's search for the author's true identity is carrying her into the gray shadows of the past, to places fraught with danger and terror. For the deeper she delves into Ismene's strange tale of gothic...
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750L
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Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a girlfriend now, a steady job, and he is even caring for a pet, the two-legged dog he calls Killer. These responsibilities...
6) Gangster
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Young Angelo Vestieri spent his life in betrayals as he rose to mob boss, but as an old don, he "meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection," and he's called to examine his own choices in life.--Jacket.
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The Earl Con Somerford, the new Earl of Wyvern, returns to his fortress on the cliffs of Dover to find a woman from his past waiting for him, with pistol. The Housekeeper Susan Kerslake, the new housekeeper at Crag Wyvern, was drawn back to Con's home by rumors of hidden gold and to oversee its smuggling operation. The magic they once shared was destroyed by youthful arrogance and innocence. The years at war hav e hardened him, and the years...
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Sal Russo's body is found, with a "Do Not Resuscitate" note. Dismas Hardy finds himself as Graham Russo's defense. How long can Russo protest innocence, when it's discovered Sal wasn't penniless, and all San Fransisco is intent on making the apparent mercy killing media issue of the year?
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In this gripping novel of suspense, acclaimed author Peter Abrahams gives us an explosive thriller of lust and retribution, desire and accountability, murder and reckoning--set in motion by an illicit love that ticks like a time bomb. A master at creating menacing intrigue and shocking reversals, Abrahams has indeed devised A Perfect Crime. When an adulterous affair is revealed, a devious mind begins to construct the perfect, flawless crime. No loose...
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Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomb-lets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory. In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad of The New York Times uncover the truth about biological weapons and show why bio-warfare...
12) 66 laps: a novel
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2000.
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Audrey Hastings, who swims sixty-six daily laps in her pool, soothes the frustrations of motherhood, the pain of her husband's infidelity, and the guilt of her own infidelity, while she learns the consequences of jealousy, suspicion, and adultery.
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"When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago... But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease. Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore cafe and begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there...
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