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1) Knife music
Author
Series
Hank Madden novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Six months after saving the life of teenage accident victim Kristen Kroiter, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
2) Limitations
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Series
Kindle County novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
While presiding over a rape case, Judge George Mason questions his professional abilities and the law itself.
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Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her, popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be. But her mother Dinah wants justice. Dinah is a fighter, and she believes with all her heart and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
GN 690L
Language
English
Description
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel-a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...
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English
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"In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that...
6) Grave risk
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Series
Hideaway volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beloved high school principal Edith Potts collapsed and quickly died. It appears accidental, but is it? Or could it all possibly be connected to another murder, three decades ago? For nurse Jill Cooper, it was a crushing loss. Before it's over, Jill will have to look hard at her troubled history, question her sanity, her faith...and face the deepest secrets in her heart.
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Series
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English
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Defending old friend Moses McGuire against wrongful murder charges involving a man who raped his daughter, attorney Dismas Hardy risks his career when the case threatens to expose old secrets involving him and police lieutenant Abe Giltsky.
"Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date"--
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Series
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English
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The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
9) Woman in red
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English
Description
Returning home after nine years in prison for trying to kill the man who ran down her little boy, Alice Kessler connects with ex-Manhattan prosecutor and recovering alcoholic Colin McGinty, who has inherited his artist grandfather's Washington home, and tries to rebuild her relationship with her surviving son but finds herself struggling with the political corruption of the man she nearly murdered, who has become mayor, is paralyzed, and has taken...
10) The grace year
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds; that their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. That is why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a society that doesn't pit friend against friend or woman against woman. She fears the brutal elements,...
11) Invisible
Author
Series
Invisible volume 01
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is,...
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