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1) Plugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor while searching for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
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After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her former lover, Travis York, threatens to derail the wedding....
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On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. The five people are "creepers," the slang term for urban explorers: city archaeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times...
5) Fade away
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For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.
6) Avenger
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Living a secret double life, lawyer Cal Dexter embarks on a deadly quest for vengeance that threatens global security, prompting CIA agent Kevin McBride to race against the clock to stop him.
7) Sudden Death
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When the New York Giants' new star running back is accused of murdering a Jets rival, attorney Andy Carpenter works for the athlete's defense, a task that is complicated by the discovery of additional player killings.
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John Sutter volume 01
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Aristocratic Wall Street lawyer John Sutter and his beautiful wife Susan are drawn into the violent world of the Mafia when Frank Bellarosa, a well-known, though never convicted gangster, moves with his family into the Sutter's high-class Long Island neighborhood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Down on her luck, Stephanie Plum becomes an apprehension agent, and her first case is to capture an old flame wanted for murder.
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow,...
10) The woods
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"Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For county prosecutor Paul Copeland, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career distracts him from his past traumas, but only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously wealthy working-class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli, who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch, only makes the hunt more thrilling. Using pointers from her pal, Ranger, and...
12) New tricks
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Advocating on behalf of a puppy whose owner was murdered during a custody fight, Andy Carpenter realizes that the pup possesses a dangerous secret that several people are resorting to violence to obtain.
13) Dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
520L
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English
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 10
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English
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Believing that a client whose case he lost nine years earlier is innocent, lawyer Andy Carpenter visits the man's aging uncle, who imparts knowledge about a dangerous, secret-ruled world where the key to Andy's client's freedom may be found.
15) Independence day
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In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most indelible characters in recent American fiction. In the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, Frank Bascombe now sells real estate, as he masters the high-wire act of "normalcy". But during the Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people...
17) Palisades Park
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"Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey--especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete...
18) Hard eight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has a big problem: seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband is not happy because he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond and Steven wants the money to search for Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage to Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Agency wants to take possession of it. Complicating Stephanie's life further is the fact that Evelyn's...
19) Four to score
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of a waitress-gone-bad in the not so scenic neighborhoods of Trenton, New Jersey. She contends with her own sidekicks as well as a rival bounty hunter and also gets involved again with buff vice cop Joe Morelli."--from NoveList.
20) Dog tags
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A German shepherd police dog has witnessed a murder for which his Iraq war vet/former cop-turned-thief owner is accused. If his owner is convicted, the dog will be put down. Attorney Andy Carpenter doesn't feel this is fair and sets out to convince a judge. In the process, he discovers that the dog and his owner had become involved in something much bigger than murder.
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