Ann Marie Lee
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1885. Nora Shipley has graduated from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program. To get her master's degree and take over the scientific journal her father started, she needs to win a scholarship. Nora joins a research expedition in Kodaikanal, India, to prove herself in the field. India isn't what she expects. Neither is the rival classmate who accompanies her, Owen Epps. Forced by the expedition leader to stay at camp and illustrate...
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Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the...
43) Cold as ice
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Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 17
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English
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When the psychopath she put away is released from juvenile detention with a clean slate and is determined to make her life a living hell, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is the only one who can stop this woman before she finishes her deadly game.
45) Molly's story
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Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 3
Dog's purpose puppy tale volume 03
Dog's purpose novel volume 05
Dog's purpose novel volume 5
Dog's purpose puppy tale volume 03
Dog's purpose novel volume 05
Dog's purpose novel volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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Meet Molly, a very special dog with a very special purpose. Molly knows that her purpose to take care of her girl, CJ, but it won't be easy. Neglected by her mother, who won't allow her to have a dog, CJ is going through some tough times. Molly's job is stay hidden in CJ's room, cuddle up to her at night, and protect her from bad people. And no matter what CJ's mother does to keep them apart, nothing will keep Molly away from the girl who she loves....
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Spikes and spurs volume 1
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English
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"After high school, Austin Lanier left the sleepy town of Terral, Oklahoma, as fast as her feet could carry her. When she learns she's inherited her grandmother's watermelon farm, she just wants to sell the place, slip on her stilettos, and run back to corporate America. Until drop-dead-sexy neighbor cowboy Rye O'Donnell show up and temps Austin to trade her heels for cowboy boots..."--Back cover.
47) Cheddar off dead
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Caterer and cook Lilah Drake is up to her elbows in deadly trouble in the latest mystery from the author of The Big Chili... The Christmas holidays are one of Lilah's favorite times of the year, filled with friends, family, and, of course, tons of food orders for her covered dish clients. But Lilah's Yuletide cheer ends when she sees a most Grinch-like crime: the murder of a Santa in a school parking lot. It turns out the deceased Kris Kringle was...
48) Nothing to hide
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Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 15
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English
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Innocent married men are turning up dead but, although she's usually quick to figure out motive, Lucy Kincaid can't figure out how they're tied to one another. The widows are not being completely up front about their late husbands and Lucy knows she has to find the killer before another husband dies, potentially her own.
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Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 3
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English
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While helping their friends stop malicious vandals targeting their new resort, aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, stumble upon a dead body, which then disappears, leading them into the middle of a violent conspiracy.
51) Cut and run
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FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is dead-set on solving a cold case, even if the original investigators stonewall her every step of the way. A violent storm has uncovered the remains of a family that authorities assumed fled the country years ago to avoid prosecution. But the body of the youngest Albright son never turned up. If the child is dead, why wasn't his body found with his parents? If he's alive, where has he been, and what does he know? Now Lucy and...
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"'Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?' Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. 'Money and power,' she would say. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli...
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Keye Street novels volume 1
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English
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In the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point, preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media, promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a deranged mind: Keye Street, an ex-FBI profiler and former addict who now picks up jobs where she can get them. But the last thing Keye wants is to...
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Keye Street novels volume 2
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English
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Tapped by the Atlanta Police Department to help solve a serial murder case involving apparently random victims, Keye Street learns that her cousin is possibly being stalked by the killer, a situation that is complicated by a grisly discovery upstate.
55) The sparrow
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Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1
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English
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Emilio Sandoz, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, is part of a crew sent to explore a new planet. Upon arrival they encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life and a small mistake leads to a horrible catastrophe. Emilio, his faith in God utterly destroyed, is the only survivor and he faces a public inquistion when he returns to Earth. Father John Candotti is charge with discovering the truth.
56) Overkill
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It started with a case so horrific that it sent Chicago cop Marty Hogan straight over the edge. Unable to put her disturbing memories behind her, Marty lost her job and was forced to flee to small-town Texas and the only police force that would hire her.
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
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Keye Street novels volume 3
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English
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"Hailed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "one of the most addictive new series heroines," Keye Street is the brilliant, brash heart of a sizzling thriller full of fear and temptation, judgments and secrets, infidelity and murder. He likes them smart. In the woods of Whisper, Georgia, two bodies are found: one recently dead, the other decayed from a decade of exposure to the elements. The sheriff is going to need help to track down an experienced...
58) Lily's story
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
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A rescue dog to the rescue! Lily is the smallest puppy in her litter and the only girl. Her brothers are bigger and stronger and like to push her around. When Lily meets a girl named Maggie Rose at the animal shelter, Lily discovers things are not so bad. Lily's size means that she can help other animals who are in trouble. It's Lily to the rescue!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1090L
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"In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning,...