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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they 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. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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English
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker's life changed forever -- twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect -- he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades...
5) Stone cold
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man's wealth comes from killing people. Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is, but...
Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man--or did she?"--
Ragna Riegel likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do... and he's usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
It was always good to see Lyle Pendergast, Joe thought -- a hard-working, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Lyle that day, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to hunt, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer. As the manhunt organized itself, Joe heard more of the...
Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter's forgiveness, Charlo plans to rob the wealthy old woman's antique silver collection. What he doesn't expect is for her to put up a fight. The following morning Harriet...
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English
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"A timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora...
12) One by one
Author
Language
English
Description
"The ... author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain"--
13) Endangered
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more — Joe’s eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway — alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren’t sure if she’ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, investigating the murder of a teenage girl, has a strong feeling the prime suspect is not the murderer, but the situation becomes urgent when a second girl is killed and her father, a mafia bigwig, decides to take matters into his own hands.
15) Wolf pack
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf ... The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure ... The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Languishing in a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to dull his pain is steadily gnawing away at his resolve, playing tricks on his mind, and luring him back into the addict mentality that once threatened to destroy his life and family. With the soporific Indian summer air wafting...
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