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Timmy Failure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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"My name is Failure. Timmy Failure. I am the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. The book you are holding is a historical record of my life as a detective. It has been rigorously fact-checked. All the drawings in here are by me. I tried to get my business partner to do the illustrations, but they were not good. This book, and my life, are the inspiration for a new movie, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 3
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English
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In Alaska, a child custody fight leads to murder. The story begins when a mother accuses a state senator of conspiracy with her ex-husband to deny her custody of their child. She confronts the senator, he is killed and she is arrested. But did she do it, or did someone frame her? PI Younger investigates. By the author of The Woman Who Married a Bear.
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"When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by a down-and-out older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover the man is a former teammate from his high school baseball team. Chet and Bernie take Rocket out for a good meal, and later, Bernie investigates Rocket's past, trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. Then,...
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Timmy Failure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
480L
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English
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His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure that Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
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Liz Talbot mystery volume 10
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English
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"It's the most wonderful time of the year, but Private Investigator Liz Talbot is struggling to feel festive. She hasn't seen her best friend, Colleen, in weeks and fears she may never see her again in this life. Meanwhile Nate, Liz's husband and partner, is spending money like he prints it in the attic on a mysterious family Christmas celebration. Liz's nerves are shot, and she hasn't even decked a single hall. But there's simply no time to fret"--Amazon.com....
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Private Investigator Carson Ford specialises in finding people. Yet when he has to look for a mystery woman predicted to be his widowed father's 'second great love'--he's stumped! The single dad knows that's not how love works! This is an elaborate swindle ... and it starts with the fortune-teller's daughter.All Chef Olivia Mack can do is confirm that her late mother's predictions were usually true. She won't admit that she might know who the second...
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"Who'd want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?" That's what Eddie Valiant wants to know. He's the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he'll handle anything - if you're human. If you're a Toon, that's another story. Eddie doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over...
8) Hair Raising
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Shamble & Die Investigations volume 3
Dan Shamble Zombie PI
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 3
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 03
Dan Shamble Zombie PI
Shamble and Die Investigations volume 3
Dan Shamble zombie P.I volume 03
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"The Dan Shamble books are great fun." --Simon R. Green
Ready-To-Were
The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves--and what's sadder than a chrome-domed lycanthrope? Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts,...
Ready-To-Were
The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves--and what's sadder than a chrome-domed lycanthrope? Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts,...
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"Space travel is tough. No air, cosmic radiation, absolute lack of other life-sustaining essentials. What better way to deal with space travel than to man ships with creatures that regenerate or don't need air, or are immune to various maladies? In a future world where zombies, vampires and werewolves co-exist with 'normal' humans on Earth, these ships are staffed by a motley crew of various types of undead or near-dead creatures. Of course no...
10) Tourist season
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The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal ... The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it will take a reporter-turned-private eye to make sense of a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and one very hungry crocodile in this classic...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 7
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English
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"Shamus Award-winner and critical darling John Straley returns to his beloved Cecil Younger series, set in Sitka, Alaska. Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He and his colleague have even started writing a helpful handbook with tips such as: Don't wear the tennis shoes you stole to court when the guy you stole them from will be there to testify and his name is still...
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Timmy Failure volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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"While his mother and doorman Dave celebrate their wedding, Timmy visits Florida where he forges a new partnership with Dave's nephew, Emilio, when a surprise newcomer shows up and he encounters a thieving six-toed cat."--
13) Zero to hero
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Timmy Failure volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Timmy Failure is not just any detective--he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. He is so famous that there have been seven books written about his life. Plus a movie. And so he has agreed to provide the world with his extraordinary origin story, as dictated to his biographer and best friend, Charles 'Rollo' Tookus. New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all...
14) Kiss me now
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"He'd be the perfect guy . . . if he wasn't trying to ruin her life. Ian would do anything for his grandmother, so when Gran suddenly announces she's leaving the family property to her pretty new neighbor, Ian is on the case. He'll use every one of his sharply honed skills as a private investigator to expose the gold digger and save Gran. Brooke is living her best life far from the city and career that tried to destroy her. She's happy spending her...
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Timmy Failure volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...
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Serge Storms novels volume 22
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English
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Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wacky points of interest in the Sunshine State. This time, Serge's interest is drawn to one of the largest retirement villages in the world--also known as the site of an infamous sex scandal between a retiree and her younger beau that rocked the community. What starts out as an innocent quest to observe elders in their natural habitats, sample the local...
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