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1) The firm
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDerre signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray, doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail, already...
2) Blue dahlia
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English
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A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion outside of Memphis. Now, Stella Rothchild, a widow with two young boys, has moved back to her roots and into her new role as manager of the nursery at Harper House. As she settles in and establishes relationships with the house's mistress, and begins a budding romance with handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge, the ghostly Harper Bride who walks the halls at night singing lullabies...
3) The client
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and he meets his first clients, Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, is dying of leukemia and the insurance company refuses to pay.
5) Black rose
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English
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Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow - and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was beyond her, but when romance takes her by surprise, she won't allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness.
6) Red lily
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English
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"A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One day in 1905, eleven-year-old Lucius is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck to "borrow" his grandfather's automobile. Ned McCaslin, a Negro, stows away in the car and the three embark on an odyssey which ends at Miss Reba's bordello.
8) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
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Series
Logan Point volume 2
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English
Description
"In a steamy small town of secrets, danger, and broken promises, a woman reaches out to a former love to save her brother's life--can she prevent her own secret from being revealed?" --
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Memphis Cold Case novels volume 4
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English
Description
"In a desperate search for her kidnapped niece, Carly Smith comes face to face with her sister's killer and must decide whether to trust her ex-boyfriend, officer Logan Donovan, when he steps in to help"--
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English
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"Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom Riders. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King...
12) Memphis: a novel
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English
Description
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
15) John Philip Duck
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Based on the real-life tradition of the Hotel Peabody Ducks, the "New York Times" bestselling author pens a tale of how the famous duck march came about and made the hotel a Memphis landmark.
16) The last word
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Sophie Trace trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant--by one of her professors. While Brill is glad her daughter rejected the father's abortion ultimatum, she's also hurt that Vanessa ignored her upbringing and angry that the professor has disappeared without so much as a nickel of child support. But that's not all Brill's got on her plate. One of her detectives...
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Dixie novels volume 2
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English
Description
Returning to her home in the South, Leelee Satterfield opens another restaurant but finds returning to her former life challenged by memories of the Vermont man who stole her heart and the daiquiri-laced advice of her three best friends.
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Series
Sophie Trace trilogy volume 1
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English
Description
"Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force...Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to red "shadows," or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land..."--p....
19) Taft
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English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book
"As resonant as a blues song. . . . Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."—New York Times Book Review
An ex-jazz drummer wants nothing more than to be a good father in this moving family novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House.
When John Nickel's lover takes away his son, Nickel is left only with his
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Tree of life (Olivia Newport) volume 1
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English
Description
"Meri's family has been producing doctors for so many generations that no one remembers why, so when she flunks out of medical school, she runs as far from her parents as she can get. In the small mountain town of Canyon Mines, Colorado, she takes a job at the Inn at Hidden Run B&B. And waits. It's only a matter of time. What she doesn't count on is genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father, Nolan, having her back when it takes everything she...
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