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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro novels volume 6
[Kenzie and Gennaro volume 6
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 06
[Kenzie and Gennaro volume 6
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 06
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English
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
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Mit der Macht hält es Inspector Safiotte wie ein König aus dem Morgenland vor dreitausend Jahren, denn die Speakeasys und Bordelle der Stadt zahlen ihm regelrecht Tribut - Dealer und Buchmacher überreichen gewisse Umschläge, Huren sind ihm jederzeit gefällig. Wer weiß, vielleicht zahlen sich diese Gefallen ja eines Tages aus, denn der Inspector ist immerhin ein einflussreicher Mann. Ausgerechnet als der Bürgermeister ihn nicht wie erwartet...
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Español
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El hombre se encamina al hogar eterno y rondan ya en la calle los que lloran su muerte.»
ECLESIASTÉS 12:5
Nathan Winer trabaja sin saberlo para el hombre que mató a su padre, Dallas Hardin, un déspota que tiene a todo el pueblo metido en el bolsillo y que le ha contratado para construir un garito clandestino en mitad del bosque. Alcohol ilegal, putas, soldados borrachos y timbas de póquer. La joven y tórrida Amber Rose sabe que seducir a Winer...
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A crazy technology genius from Boston is hammering the English bookies by manipulating race results. This American Robin Hood secretly pays the innocent people who lose out through his scheme. His big mistake is to scam Eddie Malloy. Eddie's already in trouble. Trainer Matt Nash and racehorse owner, the beautiful young heiress, Rebecca Bow, have got involved with the Triads and need Eddie's help and protection. While Eddie is trying to track down...
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Español
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El cojo Chúster-un juguete roto del fútbol-acaba de salir de la cárcel después de comerse un "marrón" de cinco años por no delatar a su jefe y amigo Francisco. Consciente de que le debe una, Francisco lo acoge nada más salir en su primer permiso y le propone un trabajito rápido y suculento para ese mismo fin de semana. Lo que debía ser un viaje tranquilo entre Madrid y Barcelona, acabará por convertirse en la noche más salvaje, donde Chúster...
8) Dead Ringer
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English
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A trio of apparent suicides of racing people in the beautiful Lambourn valley in south west England baffles Eddie Malloy. Eddie refuses to accept the police assumption that each death, accompanied by a suicide note, suggests no crime has been committed. One of the dead saved Eddie's life, when Eddie was just 19. Fourteen years' later, Eddie knows he cannot rest until he discovers the truth behind the death of his friend. Eddie enlists the help of...
9) Blood Ties
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The third book in the Eddie Malloy series, following Warned Off and Hunted, Blood Ties is another fast-moving mystery set in the world of UK horse racing. The plot is fresh and intriguing and will challenge mystery fans who enjoy piecing together the clues. Troubled jockey Eddie Malloy invests everything he has to become a partner in a small thoroughbred stud. One morning a blackmailer calls threatening to make public that Malloy's stud has an infertile...
10) Sinántropos
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Sinantropía:
«Del griego syn (junto a) + antrhopos (ser humano). En biología, capacidad de algunas especies vegetales y animales de adaptarse a ecosistemas urbanos para sobrevivir.»
Los sinántropos sobreviven como pueden. O lo intentan. Como Corto, que, a lo largo de diez años, ha intentando desprenderse de su verdadera piel para hacerse pasar por alguien que no es. Porque Corto sabe, por más que se empeñe en olvidarlo, que algunos barrios...
11) City of Hate
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English
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The Virgin Mother's image, a moldy shadow with patches of holy light, has appeared under the Triple Underpass right next to the Grassy Knoll. The image of the Virgin Mother, so close to the site where JFK was, assassinated, brings believers to pay their respects and to ponder its meaning.
But, Hal Scott has more to worry about than the Virgin Mother. Recovering alcoholic, lover of secrets, and quickly approaching middle age, Scott discovered his best...
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Français
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La vérité sur l'existence des vampires éclate au grand jour.
Washington, 2016
Depuis des siècles, les vampires vivent cachés de tous. Mais leur secret est mis en péril lorsque l'un d'eux assassine des humains au grand jour. Surnommé le Buveur, il semble choisir ses victimes totalement au hasard.
Isabelle Taylor, à la tête de l'équipe du FBI chargée d'arrêter le Buveur, est contrainte d'accepter l'aide de William Peterson, un ancien...
13) All that's dead
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Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 12
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English
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"Inspector Logan McRae was looking forward to a nice simple case - something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas... The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone missing, leaving nothing but bloodstains behind. There's a war brewing between the factions for and against Scottish Nationalism. Infighting in the police ranks. And it's all playing out in the merciless...
14) Straight Cut
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English
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A film editor takes a job in Italy only to find that half of the gig is cutting film, while the other half is moving uncut dope Freelance film editor Tracy Bateman has hit a string of bad luck. His country home is crumbling, his marriage is floundering, and his beloved dog just died. But things begin looking up for Tracy when a film producer and old friend, Kevin Carter, offers him a truckload of money to help with a job in Italy. Despite his suspicions...
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Montreal, 1926. Mick is down on his luck until an old pal offers him a loaded revolver and a job: riding shotgun in a truck running booze across the border. Stateside Prohibition has opened up a market for certain amusements, vicious or otherwise. Mick takes the job-and his problems begin. Through his old friend Jack, Mick falls deeper into the life of the small-time tough. From whorehouse to gentlemen's club, through back alleys and deluxe hotels,...
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Yucatán Is Murder, sixth in the Ben Candidi Mystery series, is a hard-boiled science-driven mystery-thriller set in Mexico and featuring science-, and tech-savvy amateur sleuths.
In the coastal scrubland of Yucatán, Mexico, circling vultures lead vacationing scientist, Ben Candidi, to a corpse. As in an ancient Mayan sacrificial rite, the victim's chest was cut, open and heart removed. Ben had fit the vacation around the public health project of...
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Suite à un meurtre sanglant dans la voisinage, deux amis décident de mener l'enquête.
Pour quelles raisons ce Wilfrid Muller, mon voisin, n'avait-il pas changé d'adresse au lieu de se laisser emporter peu à peu par sa colère ? me demandais-je en repensant à cette soirée tragique o il avait commis son crime.
Pourquoi s'était-il entêté à rester là, alors que devenait chaque fois plus insupportable le fait d'être réveillé en sursaut...
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Meet Zolly Berns, a middle-aged Jewish hustler who lands in jail when he refuses to give evidence against customers of his Rush Street bar. The feds get a judge to pressure Zolly's testimony by sending him to jail. Zolly lands in a coed prison - the Federal Correctional Institution, Lexington, Kentucky, which houses non-violent male and female offenders in a park -like setting where sex and cynicism mirror life on the street. Although having been...
19) Worthy: A Novel
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Worthy is the story of Ludmila--or Worthy, as she comes to be known--a "former" con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. Though there is much she won't reveal, she gradually unravels the story of her love affair twenty years earlier with Theodore, an erratic literature professor who embraces an ideology built around what he calls the Four Books: Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence...
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Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration....
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