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1) Skin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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As a freak storm with tornadoes is bearing down on the town of Summerville, Nevada a much more ominous threat looms as a vindictive killer has left a string of victims in his wake, and is now bent on exacting his final revenge on the unsuspecting town.
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White Crane Chronicles volume 1
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English
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To avenge the murder of his Wudang Grandmaster, White Crane, a Caucasian monk and spiritual master of the martial arts, infiltrates the Shanghai underground, where he forms an unusual bond with a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss. In this twisted den of crime, Crane must cross the line between true justice and cold-blooded revenge.
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White Crane Chronicles volume 2
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English
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To avenge the murder of his Wudang Grandmaster, White Crane, a Caucasian monk and spiritual master of the martial arts, infiltrates the Shanghai underground, where he forms an unusual bond with a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss. In this twisted den of crime, Crane must cross the line between true justice and cold-blooded revenge.
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Chronicles of brothers volume 03
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English
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"Three brothers. Power beyond reckoning. And a terrible betrayal.Adrian De Vere is the most powerful and charismatic politician on the planet. To many he heralds a future filled with peace and prosperity.Jason De Vere controls a third of the world's media through his communications empire VOX. Brilliant and tenacious, little happens in the world without him knowing.Nick, international playboy (and archaeologist), is dying, a victim of his own recklessness....
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From the same author that brought you the Flint series comes a new town . . . a new drama. Treasure Hernandez is back with her second street series, chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Derek Fuller is the head detective of a Baltimore narcotics unit. His team has been assigned to take down the biggest drug operation in the city. There's only one problem: the head of the operation is his brother, Scar Johnson. Separated in Baltimore's...
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Scar Johnson is the biggest drug dealer in Baltimore, and with the help of his girlfriend, who happens to be a District Attorney, he has become the most untouchable. But is he really safe?
The mysterious observer has come out of the shadows and infiltrated the Dirty Money Crew. Together with his accomplice, he plans to exact revenge on Scar. Meanwhile, Tiphani is plotting her return from Florida to claim her children and also get back at Scar and...
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"The Red-Headed League" is the second of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was published in 1892. In it, Jabez Wilson, a flame-haired London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Some weeks before, Wilson responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. Wilson is hired on the basis of the precise hue of his hair color and performs menial work at a...
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A man from Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook's past turns up on the outskirts of Lydelton, nearly dead from exposure and telling of an injured comrade on the flanks of Tollard's Peak, the tallest mountain in the region.
Despite the harsh winter conditions, the constables form a rescue party and set off to find the injured man.
But the elements are not the only danger that waits to strike down the unwary in the mountains surrounding Glimmer...
10) Headline Murder
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It's August 1962, and Colin Crampton, the Brighton Evening Chronicle's crime reporter, is desperate for a front-page story. But, it's the silly season for news, and the only tip-off Crampton has is about the disappearance of the seafront's crazy-golf proprietor, Arnold Trumper. Crampton thinks the story is about, as useful as, a set of concrete water wings. But when, he learns that Trumper's vanishing act is linked to an unsolved murder, he scents...
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Extrait : "Quand je jette un coup d'œil sur les notes et les résumés qui ont trait aux enquêtes menées par Sherlock Holmes entre les années 82 et 90, j'en retrouve tellement dont les caractéristiques sont à la fois étranges et intéressantes qu'il n'est pas facile de savoir lesquelles choisir et lesquelles omettre."
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Extrait: "Un jour de l'automne dernier, je m'étais rendu chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes. Je l'avais trouvé en conversation sérieuse avec un gentleman d'un certain âge, de forte corpulence, rubicond, et pourvu d'une chevelure d'un rouge flamboyant. Je m'excusai de mon intrusion et j'allais me retirer, lorsque Holmes me tira avec vivacité dans la pièce et referma la porte derrière moi."
13) She Has His Eyes
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This is the second installment by J. Thiele in the Chronicles of Detective Mike Burrows.He's a well seasoned detective, who is determined to solve every case that crosses his desk, as he tries to uphold his vow. After losing his wife, he has promised not to leave a single case unsolved by the time he retires.
14) Conspiracy
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Parker crime chronicles novel volume 01
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English
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When elite escort Abrianna Parker is framed for murder, she must evade the police, government agencies, and a lethal third party in order to clear her name, relying on a sexy ex-con to help her expose a web of corruption.--
15) Cotton: a novel
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Clarkeston chronicles volume 2
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"When new evidence arises in a cold case, can Professor Hopkins refrain from delving into a newfound world of corruption, vice, and danger? Stanley Hopkins cannot resist the invitation from a honey-voiced US attorney asking him to track down the source of photographs of a young dance major abducted five years earlier from her apartment in Clarkeston, Georgia. A journalist has stumbled across newly posted pictures of Diana Cavendish on the Internet,...
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Clarkeston chronicles volume 3
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English
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From an internationally recognized law professor comes the third legal thriller in an exciting mystery series, the Clarkeston Chronicles.
Courting Death finds Melanie Wilkerson (from Cotton, book two of the Clarkeston Chronicles) and Arthur Hughes working uncomfortably together in the chambers of a famous federal judge. While Melanie neglects her duties as a law clerk to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman in the courthouse five years...
17) The River
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'The River' is the first offering of 'The Blood Brother Chronicles', a dramatic series loosely based on family folklore that has been passed down through countless generations in the author's family. Many of these legends, reaching as far back as 1919, are about two (2) half-brothers born in and around the turn of the century, 'Slick' and 'Skeeter'. Not much is known about the two brothers that were said to have disappeared either in New York City...
18) The 4th Secret
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The secretive religious sect known as the Magi returns as a heavenly apocalypse looms in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Relics.
When a brutal attack leaves a priest close to death and screaming of dark prophecies, Professor Alex Harker once again finds himself pulled into the shadowy world of the Magi.
On dubious pretenses, Harker must join a desperate search for the missing child he has sworn to protect.
But as...
19) Case: 1
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It's official, Devlin is Annalise's new partner. He's charming, caring-a perfect gentleman who caters to her every need. That is until he starts to mix work with pleasure to convince her to marry him as per agreement with her father.
With her servant, Mavel, gone from her side, the cracks in the wall she created around her begin to come undone. To take her mind off the torment her heart is going through, she takes on another possession case in...
20) Body Art
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When the lead singer of an underground rave group is abducted and murdered, SBI agent Joshua Lucas and Lead Homicide Detective Samuel Santiago are tasked with bringing down the killer. But with few clues and a rising body count, and a killer who becomes more unpredictable by the moment, solving the crime seems impossible. Will the unlikely partners be able to put the pieces together before the killer strikes close to home?
Good is pitted against evil...
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