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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched, with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a...
3) Delirious
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as his company and inventions are wrenched from his control, and his family is decimated. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his schizophrenic brother to uncover the dark family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror.
4) Texas Ranger
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far -- from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. A tough case in Waco has jeopardized Yates's chances at promotion, and he decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene -- and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect...
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English
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When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermontś back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he wont́ let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was...
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphiaʹs esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the worldʹs most celebrated mythological beasts, mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs, were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The...
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English
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Meet Pat Peoples. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure him a happy ending -- the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has spent several years in a mental health facility.) The problem is, Pat's now home, and everything feels off. No one will talk to him about Nikki; his beloved...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
465 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida. There she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
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Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is horrified to learn that his horse-training partner, Riley Burke, has been murdered by an escaped prisoner, prompting Kerney to team up with his half-Apache son to hunt down the killer.
10) Chaos theory
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English
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"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a planet run by escapees from a mental institution, the doctors who arrive to restore order may be the craziest of all. For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes, the hospital was left unguarded and the inmates set up their own society, made up of competing factions based around each mental illness. When Earth sends a delegation to take back the colony,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery...
13) The grave singer
Author
Series
Shepard and Gray volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a traumatic injury took him off the job, prosecuter Solomon Shepard is back to work, teaming up with Sheriff Billie Gray to hunt down Utah's most dangerous criminals. Shepard has spent years away from crime scenes and courtrooms, but one of those criminals still holds a grudge. Alonso Hafeez is out of prison after eleven years, and he's determined to prove that Shepard tried him for a crime he didn't commit. And he's got something special...
Author
Series
Rory Yates volume 1
Language
English
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Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far -- from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. A tough case in Waco has jeopardized Yates's chances at promotion, and he decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene -- and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect...
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