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Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
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English
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While Richard Jury has been sent on a dead end chase, Melrose Plants heads for Cornwall to take up temporary residence in Bentchley House where Plant's past and the tragic past of the Bentchleys converge.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
Author
Publisher
Modern Times
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 248 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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What's it like bicycling in a police state? In 1989, Jenkins found out by joining a team of three Americans and four Russians in the first expedition to cross Siberia by bicycle, via Vladivostok to Leningrad. Jenkins, the Rocky Mountain editor for Backpacker magazine and the field editor for Summit magazine, re-creates his excitement and trepidation over the sheer vastness of the task. The team slogs through an 800-mile swamp and climbs passes over...
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English
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"From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
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Dog man volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hot diggity dog! Dog Man, the newest hero from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Captain Underpants, is back and this time he's not alone. The heroic hound with a real nose for justice now has a furry feline sidekick, and together they have a mystery to sniff out!
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.
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Kevin Kerney volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney is serving as a technical advisor for a contemporary Western being filmed along the Mexican border. When a dead man is found on a road near a border crossing, what started as a working vacation turns into a series of investigations that lead to dangerous Pentagon politics and to travels as far as a resort town in Ireland.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Sarah Brandt's family is one of the oldest in New York City, and her father, Felix Decker, takes his position in society very seriously. He still refuses to resign himself to his daughter being involved with an Irish Catholic police detective. But when a member of his private club -- the very exclusive Knickerbocker -- is murdered, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the crime as discreetly as possible. Malloy...
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Will Trent volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades...
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English
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"Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book but is told repeatedly to keep quiet to keep the...
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Shetland mysteries volume 1
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English
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"It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man, loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the...
52) The divide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of...
54) Don't eat me
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English
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"Dr. Siri Paiboun, the ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but when he manages to smuggle a fancy movie camera into the country he devises a plan to shoot a Lao adaptation of War and Peace with his friend Civilai. The only problem? The Ministry of Culture must approve the script before they can get rolling. That and they can't figure out how to turn on the camera. Meanwhile, the skeleton of a woman...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"As 1899 draws to a close, Frank and Sarah Malloy are ready to celebrate the New Year--and century--at Trinity Church when they notice Mr. Pritchard, a neighbor's relative, behaving oddly and annoying the other revelers. When Frank tries to intervene and convince Pritchard to return home with them, he refuses and Frank loses him in the crowd. The next morning Sarah and Frank are horrified to learn Pritchard was murdered sometime in the night, his...
56) Suspect: a novel
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English
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London psychiatrist Joseph O'Loughlin seems to have the perfect life. He has a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter, and a thriving practice to which he brings great skill and compassion. But he's also facing a future dimmed by Parkinson's disease. And when he's called in on a gruesome murder investigation, he discovers that the victim is someone he once knew. Unable to tell the police what he knows, O'Loughlin tells one small lie which turns out to...
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As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children, grandchildren, and their foster son, Gabe. But working for the Greenbury Police Department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family,...
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 191 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This eBook has the tools you need to achieve your goal of becoming a police officer in California. It includes a step-by-step guide for the entire hiring process, expert advice, and essential practice and review of the most commonly tested topics.
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