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"Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies." Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
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Murphy Shepherd novels volume 1
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English
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"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
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2021.
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"Ven was once a holy man, a keeper of ancient archives. It was his duty to interpret archaic texts, sorting useful knowledge from the heretical ideas of the Burning Age--a time of excess and climate disaster. For in Ven's world, such material must be closely guarded so that the ills that led to that cataclysmic era can never be repeated. But when the revolutionary Brotherhood approaches Ven, pressuring him to translate stolen writings that threaten...
5) Via negativa
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2020.
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English
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"A heartfelt, daring, and divinely hilarious debut novel about an old priest looking back on his life and grappling with his mistakes as he hits the highways of the American midwest with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat. Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by the church for eccentricity and insubordination, he's tried to transform his exile into a kind of pilgrimage, to make his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. But...
6) Absolution
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"Father Jake Austin is trying to rebuild his life after his sister's death. He takes a leave of absence from his duties as a parish priest, assumes legal guardianship of his four-year-old nephew, and resumes his medical practice so that he has enough income to care for the boy. At the hospital, he learns that the DEA and FBI are investigating a sudden surge in illegal prescription drug activity. Because Jake has recently returned to town and his practice...
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2021.
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English
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"He's forbidden fruit and she's a rule follower, but their connection is something to believe in. Father Patrick Dooley joined the clergy to fulfill his mother's dying wish. While it once gave him purpose, he not so sure it's his calling anymore. But it's all he's ever known and he's not sure what he wants to do with his life if he decides to leave the priesthood. How can he reconcile his faith with his growing desire to live a different life? Sasha...
8) La hacienda
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2022
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Español
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"La novela gótica mexicana se aúna con la mejor tradición de Rebeca en esta novela de suspense sobrenatural, ambientada en una remota hacienda durante los años de la guerra de independencia mexicana. El padre de Beatriz murió injustamente ajusticiado por alta traición y su hogar fue destruido. Cuando el atractivo Rodolfo Solórzano pide su mano, Beatriz decide ignorar los rumores que envuelven la muerte de su primera mujer y acepta sin dudarlo,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 38
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1120L
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English
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary...
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2016.
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Español
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"Marcus is a priest and has a gift: he detects the evil that dwells in people. Sandra is a police photographer. And she also has a gift: she can make the invisible visible. Now the two have combined their talents to hunt down an abominable murderer--someone who only targets young couples as victims. The investigation of the crimes takes them to the Vatican, to the archive where the greatest crimes of humanity are treasured. An inventory of absolute...
11) Redsight
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2024.
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"A blind priestess with the ability to manipulate space-time, Korinna, a weapon of the Imperium, must choose sides, seize her power and fulfill her destiny when she is drawn to notorious space pirate Aster Haran who sheds new--and dangerous--light on her world"--
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