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82) Wicked ways
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Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.
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"After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract her from her obsession with her friend's death is the same...
84) The wrong stuff
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Part-time antique buyer and private investigator Jane Wheel is able to blend both her careers while helping an antique dealer prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
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"Allison Weiss has a great job ... a handsome husband ... an adorable daughter ... and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's,...
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2021
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Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 10
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Jane Jeffry adds a murder investigation to her holiday activities when a local, muckraking reporter is murdered while trying to barge in on her neighborhood Christmas party.
90) Human capital
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It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away--his marriage, his real estate brokerage, and his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. But as summer approaches, Drew forms an unexpected friendship with Quint Manning, the manager of a secretive hedge fund. Drew sees the friendship leading to vast, frictionless wealth, but Drew doesn't know that Manning has problems of his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own--between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between...
92) The accounting
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[2013]
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As a stoned teenager, Jon Willing thought he had the perfect plan for stealing a fortune in drug money. Twenty-five years later, a failing suburban dad with tan pants, he finds out how wrong he was. The battle that ensues will send Jon skittering across a landscape wracked by the Great Recession to confront the demons of his past: the grade-school bully who has terrorized him for decades, the grandfather that betrayed him, and the girl that got away....
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On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, Louise is at a neighbour's pool with her daughters and glaring at her resentfully is her estranged husband Barnaby. While the children splash and shriek in the cool, blue waters, she lies blissfully back in the sun and dreams of Cassian, the charismatic new lawyer in her life.The day seems perfect.
96) Time's up!
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[1982]
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Noah is afraid that life in the suburbs will be boring until he meets a clever girl named Bib and an unusual house painter named Bruce Dooster.
97) Home school
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Sequel to The Graduate. Its eleven year later, Ben and Elaine live in a small town, where they are educating their two sons at home. The schoolboard is attempting to quash their unconventional educational methods, and the family issues a desperate cry for help to the boys' grandparent, now known as Nan-but who in former days answered to Mrs. Robinson.
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Nina Avery, having stood by her father after he was convicted of killing her mother, continues to believe in his innocence after he is released on parole, but a second tragedy has her searching for answers within her own family and the neighborhood where she grew up.
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