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1) Forever Odd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared and the worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents, to communicate with the dead, to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body: he encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning and spirals into a vortex of terror. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and...
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After being seriosly injured in a car accident on the way to meet her husband, actress Leigh Kendall wakes to discover he has disappeared without a trace, and her frantic search for him--while investigators are focusing on her--leads to a tangle of deception that makes her wonder how well she actually knew the man she loved.
3) The island
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While walking on the beach, Beth Anderson stumbles upon a human skull, which then disappears, and it is only when a body washes up on shore that people believe her story, especially Keith Henson, a stranger who follows her every move.
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Lexile measure
1070L
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English
Description
"Dickens's last--and unfinished--novel introduces an unforgettable array of characters, from the sinister to the comic, and moves to a haunting climax in an atmospheric murder mystery that features the seemingly benevolent John Jasper, a secret opium addict, and his relationship with his newly engaged nephew, Edwin Drood."--NoveList website viewed September 3, 2010.
5) Fragile
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Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 1
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English
Description
Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows. As a child, Maggie found life there stifling; as a wife and mother she has happily returned to its insular embrace. When a teenage girl disappears, eerie parallels soon emerge to the abduction that happened when she was a teenager; in searching for the truth, Maggie exposes a long-buried town secret.
6) Vanished
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Nick Heller novels volume 1
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English
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International investigator and corporate security consultant Nick Heller uses his Special Forces skills to look into the whereabouts of his estranged brother, who disappeared after he and his wife were attacked, and uncovers a conspiracy involving his brother's work for a multibillion-dollar defense contractor and twelve billion in U.S. funds that went missing in Iraq.
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"Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling author of Woman with a Secret and The Monogram Murders. You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better. You've left the city and the career that nearly...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 02
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
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Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
"Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them-one...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and...
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"Convinced her friend didn't run away as the police believe, Lizzie Kauffman searches for the truth-but someone will kill to keep it hidden. Now the Amish housekeeper and her friend Caleb Zook are on the run for their lives. And if they want to find their missing friend, Lizzie and Caleb must figure out a way to survive the holidays." -- publisher.
11) Lost : A Novel
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English
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When a young actress disappears without a trace, her mother begins a frantic search and is forced to acknowledge the disturbing truth about the young woman she realizes she never really knew.
12) Total control
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of...
13) Ghosted: a novel
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Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. A love story with a secret at its heart. When Sarah meets Eddie, they connect instantly and fall in love. To Sarah, it seems as though her life has finally begun. And it's mutual: it's as though Eddie has been waiting for her, too. Sarah has never been so certain of anything. So when Eddie leaves for a long-booked vacation and promises to call from the airport, she has no cause to doubt him. But he doesn't...
14) S is for silence
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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On July 4, 1953, in the town of Serena Station, Violet Sullivan left for the annual fireworks display and was never seen again. Some say she ran off with one of her many lovers in her new Chevrolet Bel Air; others say she was murdered by her abusive husband. But for her 6-year-old daughter, Daisy, Violet's disappearance has never been explained...and her absence never forgotten. Now, 34 years later, Daisy wants the solace of closure and hires Kinsey...
15) Faithful place
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"Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place."--from NoveList.
16) The first wife
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Despite the ten year difference in their ages, her working class upbringing and his of privilege, Logan Abbott and Bailey fall deeply in love. Marriage quickly follows. But when Logan brings her home to his horse farm in Louisiana, a magnificent estate on ninety wooded acres, her dreams of happily-ever-after begin to unravel. A tragic family history she knew nothing about surfaces, plus whisperings about the disappearance of his first wife and rumors...
17) Shelter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
19) The hunt club
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In the aftermath of a federal judge's murder, homicide inspector Devin Juhle discovers that the victim had powerful enemies, a mistress, and unsettling ties to a woman with whom Devin's best friend has fallen in love.
20) Bring me back
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Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They’re driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors behind him, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone—never to be seen again. That is the story Finn told to the police. But it is not the whole story. Ten years later Finn is engaged to Layla’s sister, Ellen. Their shared grief over what happened...
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