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China Bayles volume 23
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When China's and Ruby's friend Karen Prior is mugged in a mall parking lot and dies a few days later, China begins to suspect that her friend's death was not a random assault. Karen was a filmmaker supervising a student documentary about the fifteen-year-old murder of a woman named Christine Morris and the acquittal of the man accused of the crime. Is it possible that the same person who killed Christine Morris targeted Karen? Delving into the cold...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." —Baltimore Sun
From William X. Kienzle, author of the mystery classic, The Rosary Murders.
The priesthood or Lil. It would be a gut-wrenching decision for Rick.
Sixty-year-old Father Rick Casserly, the much loved, socially conscious pastor at St. William of Thierry Church, and Lillian "Lil" Niedermeir, the principal at nearby St. Enda's elementary school, share a common bond.
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Series
In Death volume 22
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she's thrown back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Series
Five Kingdoms volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cole and his friends finally reach the fourth of the five kingdoms, Necronum, land of the dead, where they confront unexpected dangers and meet new allies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A ... queer love story ... When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind ......
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English
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In 1819 England, "evidence from a mysterious death takes Benjamin to an island on the Thames. There Isabelle is trapped by fear and a recurring dream about a man's death. Or is it a memory? When a second death brings everyone under suspicion, she realizes her island sanctuary will never be the same"--
13) Gleanings
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
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Series
If I stay volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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Series
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook, when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile's forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
17) The siren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.
18) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah -- but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.
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Language
English
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"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
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