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1) Sunset Key
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English
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Letty Dobesh is coming off a bender and hasn't had a job in months when she gets a very enticing offer. John Fitch, the ultrawealthy CEO of a major energy company, has recently been convicted of securities fraud. In four days he must report to a federal prison, where he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life. Fitch wants a female companion for his last night of freedom. But Letty is no high-priced call girl, and this gig isn't about sex.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. His listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. But someone is killing some of Charlie D's favorite listeners.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for-a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down-she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local cafe. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on. His studio guest this evening is Dr. Robin Harris, an arrogant and ambitious "expert in the arts of dying and grieving," who also seems to be auditioning for her own radio talk show. Charlie and Dr. Harris do not hit it off. Things go from bad to worse when the doctor's ex-lover,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When detective Rick Montoya returns to the city to try to clear his name after being accused of taking a bribe, he discovers someone is living in his apartment. Before he can find out who it is, the apartment house goes up in flames. Rick watches covertly as the police remove two bodies. Was the firebombing meant for him? Who exactly was killed in the fire? And why? What was his landlady Cheryl doing at home in the middle of the afternoon? And why...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Walter Davis, a young bi-racial man who suddenly finds himself homeless after his mother's death, struggles to maintain his dignity and to make his own place in the world. When he meets the girl of his dreams, he tries to keep his circumstances from her.
10) The fall guy
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 670L
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English
Description
When handyman Cedric O'Toole is set up to take the fall for a murder he didn't commit, he will need all his inventive powers to save himself.
11) Fit to kill
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"A brutal serial killer is murdering women in Vancouver's West End. On a seemingly insane rampage, he leaves their headless bodies to be found and writes taunting letters to the police. It soon becomes apparent that all his victims are members of the neighborhood fitness center. Sebastian Casey, a reporter with the weekly community newspaper, has just begun to work out at the center. As he gets to know some of the others who use the facility, Casey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 630L
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English
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"Cree Thunderboy has two things he does well: he plays a mean blues guitar, and he has a knack for picking winning horses at the track. Picking winners is just a means to an end; Cree's goal is to be the next great bluesman. When he meets Win Hardy, it looks like he might be able to parlay his special skill with the horses into a shot at the fame and fortune he seeks. So long as he can pick the next sure thing."--P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine guns lie in ambush. Snipers slip from one rooftop to...
15) The Second Wife
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Gwen Lake is a forty-five-year-old police officer with a desk job, an ex-husband, and a future not even close to the American dream. A year after her divorce, and more out of boredom and curiosity than anything else, she agrees to a meeting with her ex's new wife. She has no idea that the encounter will lead to murder. And she has decidedly mixed emotions when her ex-husband is arrested for the crime. Instead of accepting the lead detective's advice...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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It's Father's Day weekend, and it looks like some of the well-intentioned wisdom that Charlie D dispenses on his late-night radio call-in show might blow up in his face. One young listener seems intent on killing his father and the rest of his family. Unfortunately, no one knows where he is. Time is running out, until Charlie's own long-estranged father enters the picture.
17) Assault on Juno
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Recounts the day-long assault on heavily-defended Juno Beach by Canadian troops during the Normandy landings on D-Day, an attack which played a key role in the success of the Allied invasion.
18) Best girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When aspiring musician Amanda Moss learns the truth about the parents that she thought were dead, some aspects of her life and personality begin to make sense, even as she is compelled to look into unsettling questions about her family.
19) Cleanup
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English
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Connie Suarez, downsized from her job as a legal secretary, is working as a maid. She's getting used to picking up after people and putting their lives in order. But she is not prepared for the mess that awaits her when she arrives at work one morning to find her employer dead on the floor of his bedroom. Connie's co-worker Maria, an illegal alien from Colombia, quickly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.
When Maria begs her for help, Connie...
20) Contingency plan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Sandra Sinclair realizes she's made a terrible mistake in marrying into an abusive relationship, putting herself and her twelve-year-old daughter in grave danger.
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