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2) 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...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Washington’s splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where the world’s most famous and infamous people meet–and often collide. Now, in Margaret Truman’s new Capital Crime novel, this landmark locale becomes the scene of a sensational shooting whose consequences ricochet from seedy bars...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan from notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered in a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiancé Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. Meanwhile Lorenzo...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.
6) Judge & jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante and Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and juror for the trial of a notorious crime boss are the only ones left to seek justice after Mafia Don Dominic Cavello and his henchmen systematically eliminate everyone who stand in their way.
7) 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...
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Series
Trust me volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having learned to be a master con artist from her father, Julep Dupree pays expenses at her exclusive high school by fixing things for fellow students, but she will need their help when her father disappears.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chase Bennett is a troubleshooter for a chamber of commerce on the Florida coast. Visiting an old friend, a woman detective, he unwittingly becomes the critical link in a chain of criminal evidence stretching from a narcotics raid in Washington to telecommunications fraud in Miami. Back home, a series of mysterious events unfolds. His boss threatens his job, a shady entrepreneur coerces him on a land deal, the detective disappears. As the Omega Corporation...
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Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
13) Arcadia awakens
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
When seventeen-year-old Rosa Alcantara travels from her native Brooklyn to her ancestral home in Sicily, she falls head over heels for Alessandro Carnevare, whose family is the sworn enemy of hers, and must confront both of their families' criminal--and paranormal--pasts.
14) Kiss kill vanish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father"--
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Series
House of Winslow volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Winslow and her brother Phillip each pursue new lives in New York during the 1920s; but Amelia's stardom and Philip's position as assistant district attorney become jeopardized by ties to the notorious underworld.
16) Firebug
Author
Series
Firebug volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ava, a contract killer who can start fires with her mind, hits the road with her friends, desperately trying to escape the Coterie, a magical mafia, while keeping the murder to a minimum after she's asked to kill a family friend by Venus, who killed Ava's mother.
17) Razorhurst
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya"--
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Detective Harry Bosch has known for years. Bosch still carries in his pocket a matchbook he picked up there on a case years ago. Its motto--'Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself'--has been a guiding light through some of his darkest days. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Harry hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. The world Bosch...
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