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Ya-Yas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
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Siddalee Walker, a successful New York theater director, takes turns with her family in telling the story of their Louisiana upbringing, their experiences in Our Lady of the Divine Compassion parochial school, and the anguishes and blessings of childhood.
2) Night game
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A member of the Special Forces paranormal squad, Gator Fontenot embarks on a dangerous mission to capture Iris "Flame" Johnson, a beautiful weapon of destruction bent on vengeance, who has become the target of a lethal assassin.
4) Plain Jane
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Unable to forget the brutal attack that ended a former classmate's life, Dr. Jane Lewis, a successful psychotherapist, is suddenly presented with clues to solve the murder while embarking on a new romance with Michael Sorenson.
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Meet Avery Broussard, the last in a line of once-substantial land owners whose weakness for alcohol lands him in prison; J. P. Winfield, a dirt-poor singer who makes it to the top of hillbilly music only to be destroyed by drug addiction.; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who is set up.
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 7
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 07
Southern vampire novel volume 07
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 07
Southern vampire novel volume 07
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Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
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English
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Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past, as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou. An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called Divine Secrets of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Celia stands accused of poisoning her husband, Detective Stan Shepherd. The fact her first husband died under similar circumstances only heightens the suspicion. But attorney Jill Clark thinks the pieces of the puzzle fit together a bit too neatly. Either her client's Christian faith is a sham, or she's the victim of a deadly frame-up.
10) Private justice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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A serial killer is stalking the wives of the town's firefighters, and unless Mark and Allie Branning renew their commitment to each other and to God, Allie may be next.
11) Trial by fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling fom the shock of the dead man's identity, struggles with the agonizing question who did it--and why? Paramedic Issie Mattreaux is no icon of virtue, but she cares enough about her teenaged newphew, Jake, to track him down when he turns up missing....
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 10
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 10
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire novel volume 10
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 10
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire novel volume 10
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English
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Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, having survived the Fae War but upset over the loss of loved ones and still recovering from the torture she endured, realizes the doors to Faery were closed before some fae were able to leave the human world and they are holding her responsible, while her relationship with vampire Eric Northman is scrutinized by the vampire king and she is drawn into a dangerous debate through her connection to one particular...
13) Swan Peak
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 17
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English
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"Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure--only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana to solve the mysterious murder of a University of Montana coed and her boyfriend."--from NoveList.
14) Sunset limited
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
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English
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The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter, Megan, a photojournalist drawn to controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named...
15) Seven girls gone
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"When nobody will talk and corruption runs deep, turning to outsiders is the only way to make sure women stop disappearing... For three years, women have been going missing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls...
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What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?
New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs-only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she...
17) Jubilee trail
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A fashionable young lady of New York yearns for adventure, and marries a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard-of land called California.
18) Ella in bloom
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Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" —New York Newsday), and the ways in which place can profoundly affect us all. Now, with Ella in Bloom, Hearon gives us her sharpest, funniest, most telling novel yet.
It is the story of Ella, who has always lived in...
It is the story of Ella, who has always lived in...
19) The last suppers
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"Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them--sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff--left the place as soon as they could. Yet Ginny Polk chose to come back to work as a prison cook. Yet she has never seen them as monsters, not even the ones sentenced to execution. That's why, among her duties, Ginny has taken on a special responsibility: preparing their last meals."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
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Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
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