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"It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...
2) Finding Nouf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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820L
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English
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Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office.
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"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Adventure, suspense, detection, and humor are involved when 12-year-old Claudia and her younger brother elude the security guards and live for a week in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would live in comfort-at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She invited her brother Jamie to go, too, mostly...
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Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 1
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English
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PI Lew Fonseca of Florida is hired to find a girl who ran away from her abusive father for the streets. The search takes him into the sleazy world of pimps and prostitution. First in a new series.
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Three Investigators mystery series volume 41
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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The Three Investigators tangle with a couple of shady producers of horror films when they try to track down a runaway teenager.
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[2010]
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Español
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Tres da̕s antes de su boda, Nouf Shrawi, hija de una de las familias ms̀ influyentes de Arabia Saudita, desaparece. Diez da̕s despuš, encuentran en el desierto el cadv̀er de la joven de apenas 16 aǫs. La autopsia revela que estaba embarazada de varias semanas y que la causa de la muerte fue la deshidratacin̤. Nayir al-Sharqui, gua̕ del desierto que particip e̤n la bs͠queda de Nouf, no parece muy convencido con la versin̤ oficial de los...
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