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1) Hush money
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
When Robinson Nevins, the son of Hawk's boyhood mentor, is denied tenure at the University, Hawk asks Spencer to investigate. It appears the denial is tied to the suicide of a young gay activist, Prentice Lamont.
2) Private eyes
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 6
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English
Description
Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
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English
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"The car Natasha's sister was driving was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve known as the Bend. Della's family has channeled magic from the Bend for generations, providing spells for the desperate. When Natasha turns up on her doorstep, Della knows it will take more than a potion to help her. She's hiding a secret: the beast responsible for the disappearances is her own mother, who was turned into a terrible monster by magic gone...
5) Mystic river
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English
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
6) Cold
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a boy who died--and a girl who wants to know why. Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body, which has just been found in the town park, naked and frozen in the snow. As detectives investigate Todd's homicide, talking to the very people who are responsible for how he died, Todd replays the events that lead him to his end in the park. Georgia didn't know Todd. But she can't stop thinking about him....
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English
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"Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs - is that the reason the police won't investigate? And if Rilke doesn't find out what happened to Jojo, who will? Thrilling...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Claudia Lin is looking at a cliched post-college future as a chronically underemployed English major--much to the consternation of her mother, who wants her to settle down and start dating a nice Chinese boy already; her brother, who pushes her to follow in his model-minority footsteps; and her sister, who can't get over Claudia's privileged place in their mother's affections. But Claudia is used to keeping secrets from her family. Such as the fact...
10) A longer fall
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Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 2
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English
Description
"In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...
11) The whispers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the whispers, magical fairies that grant wishes, his mom will come back to him"--
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English
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"A brand-new Hap and Leonard series collection chock full of Joe R. Lansdale's inimitable blend of humor, mayhem, and insight, Of Mice and Minestrone delivers never-before-seen stories, a selection of the boys' favorite recipes, by Kasey Lansdale, and an introduction from New York Times bestselling crime author Kathleen Kent. Hap Collins looks like a good ol' boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is black, gay, and...
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Max Bravo, a wise-cracking gay opera singer, and his best friend, advertising whiz Claudia Fantini, enjoy hanging out with their fellow dog friends at the local Berkeley, California, dog park. But when one of their friends--pregnant Amy Carter--disappears, Max and his visiting German boyfriend stake out Amy's house because they suspect her husband has killed her.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
In Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale's newest Hap and Leonard story collection, the boys are back with more righteous ass-kickings, highly improbable adventures, and disastrous fishing trips. These never before collected tales showcase the popular not-so dynamic duo who are a little bit older, but not a whole lot wiser--Hap and Leonard were truly born for trouble.
16) The dissident
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish...
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"As of 2022, an estimated 268,490 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. A high percentage of those will relapse. But the good news is that more men are being cured of this disease than ever before. In a new and completely revised 5th edition, this lifesaving guide offers a message of hope to every man facing this illness, and the people who love them. Prostate cancer is a different disease in every man-which means that the right treatment...
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