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1) The pickup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Wealthy, white South African woman Julie Summers, contemptuous of her privileged background, becomes involved with Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, and when he is deported, insists on marrying him and going to live in the primitive conditions of his home village.
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Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the outrageous, the magical, and, sometimes, the eerily haunting. Wolf men, dolphin women, defiant old ladies, and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear -- in Jigs & Reels the miraculous goes hand in hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive, and the disturbing...
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Private investigator Philip Knight is asked to investigate a rash of threatening letters that have been sent to administrators at Notre Dame University, and Philip believes the letters are simply a student prank, until a man is found dead and Philip realizes he is on the trail of a vicious killer.
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Peter Diamond mysteries volume 9
Thorndike Press large print basic
Peter Diamond mystery volume 9
Peter Diamond mystery volume 09
Thorndike Press large print basic
Peter Diamond mystery volume 9
Peter Diamond mystery volume 09
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"Inspector Peter Diamond investigates a series of suspicious hangings."--from NoveList.
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With Notre Dame in an uproar over the university's disastrous football season, Roger Knight, professor of Catholic Studies, finds himself a marked man as he and his P.I. brother Philip launch separate investigations to put a stop to a campus conspiracy.
10) The headhunters
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Chichester CID inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin investigates a series of deaths by drowning that may be the work of an ex-con with a suspicious past.
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"The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything - punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life - to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the...
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"The Earl of Clifton intended one day to find the perfect countess...then he met Lucy. The improper daughter of an infamous spy, Lucy Ellyson saved Clifton's life and taught him everything he needed to know about serving his country...even how to fall in love. He vowed he would come back and make her his unlikely countess, but the war kept them apart for too long, and when he finally returned, she'd vanished. Lucy hadn't gone far--living a new life...
14) Old city hall
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Canada's leading radio show host, Kevin Brace, comes to the door of his luxury condominium with his hands covered in blood and tells the newspaper delivery man: "I killed her." The "her" in question is his young wife, whose body lies in the bathtub with a knife wound through the sternum. So, if he killed her, where's the mystery? That's the question asked by the detectives plowing through what should be an open-and-shut case. With the appearance of...
16) Breathless
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Lucien de Malheur seeks to destroy the Rohans. Lucien traps Miranda into a marriage that is rooted in vengenance and not love...or so he thinks.
17) Hearts persuaded
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In 1862 in Loudoun County, Virginia, pacificist Quakers Levi Clement and Comfort Clarke wed in a loveless marriage. He wed her out of deference to his heartbroken father who disowned his oldest son for joining the Northern army. Levi loves Willa Mae Tyler, who puts on the Confederate uniform to fight the Yankees who brutally killed her family. She left with a secret that she carries inside her womb, a secret that has given her the will to live for...
18) The Irish duke
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"Lady Louisa, young daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, scoffs when Lord Abercorn of Ireland, a child himself, first asks for her hand. And when a fortune-teller predicts she will know an intense and life-long love, Louisa scoffs again. She will be the mistress of her own destiny. But the heir to the Irish Abercorn dynasty continues to yearn for the elusive Lady Louisa. Then a family scandal tests Louisa's loyalty to herself against an even...
20) Work song
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Lured like so many others by "the richest hill on earth," Morrie Morgan steps off the train in Butte, copper-mining capital of the world, in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie, once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seem to seek him out: a look-alike, sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miniers; a streak- of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely...
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