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1) Iron Lake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
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After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane--the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower--disappears on a drunken New Years' Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs out all search efforts. When her body is found during the spring thaw four months later, preliminary evidence implicates her ex-boyfriend--Ojibwe bad-boy, Solemn Winter Moon. But then a second Charlotte Kane turns up dead, and Cork isn't sure of anything any more....
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Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when a deadly explosion rocks the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy, anti-environmentalist industrialist, whose mill is near an ancient tract of pine forest sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe.
"Not far from Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752), lies an ancient expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe. When an explosion kills the night watchman at wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstrom's...
5) Copper River
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Former sheriff Cork O'Connor ends up running for his life from professional hit men and taking refuge at his cousin's resort in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, when he becomes involved in a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.
8) The Foxman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
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English
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A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly , disfigured man who teaches him many things.
11) The survivors
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
12) The devil's bed
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A disillusioned First Lady abandons her husband mid-reelection campaign and returns to her Minnesota hometown, where she is stalked by an escaped mental patient.
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Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request: Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago? With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate Henry Wellington,...
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This next novel in William Kent Kruegers New York Times bestselling series finds Cork OConnor sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Tricksters Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness. With him is Jubal Little, who is favored to become the first "First Nation" man elected governor of Minnesota, and who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. Although the men have been bowhunting, a long-standing tradition among these two friends,...
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Jonathan Stride novels volume 7
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When fellow detective Serena Dial witnesses a brutal murder with ties to an earlier case, detective Jonathan Stride investigates human-trafficking activity in the Duluth port and struggles with the possibility that he may have sent an innocent woman to prison.
16) Holy Ghost
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"Wheatfield, Minnesota: a metropolis of six hundred souls and change, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and his precocious teenage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. Should something dramatic occur--say, that the apparition of the Virgin Mary miraculously appeared at the local Catholic Church--the...
17) Rough country
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While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions--then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated...
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At the reenactment of the Civil War battle of Kirby Creek, Mississippi, a man dies when he is shot and the Corinth sheriff's department rules it an accidental death with no investigation, but the victim's widow hears a rumor that the bullet that killed her husband might have been intended for a Sheriff's deputy, who was next to him when he was killed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
20) Deep freeze
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
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"What is supposed to be a fun ice-fishing trip may turn deadly. When a boy arrives at a northern cabin during the blizzard of the century, he faces more than just frostbite"--
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