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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
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English
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The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "Father of Curses." Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the "pyramids" of Mazghunah: countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest—until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his Cairo shop.
When a sinister Egyptian spotted
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Hollows volume 7
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English
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Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer, she brings in her PI partners--Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis--along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 9
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English
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Egyptologist-detective Amelia Peabody, participating in an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings in 1903, decides to ignore an anonymous message warning her to stay away from tomb Twenty-A--a decision she can only hope she lives to regret.
44) Hornet flight
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English
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Danish teenager Harald Olufsen, having stumbled upon the secret that is responsible for Germany's success in beating back the attacks of England's Royal Air Force in 1941, undertakes a dangerous, six-hundred-mile journey in a derelict airplane with his friend Karen, in an effort to get word to England and turn the course of the war.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Lives are changed forever when a teenage couple leave the baby they cannot keep in a box on the grounds of the Blessings estate, and caretaker Skip Cuddy, aided by matriarch Lydia Blessing, decides to keep and raise the infant.
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Women's murder club volume 20
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Three victims, three bullets, three cities. The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes?
47) Revenge tour
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 10
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English
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Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is gone. And her manager, who was in charge of the money, turns up dead. He's been with her a long time. When Sunny begins to investigate, she discovers that a lot of Melanie Joan's past is a product...
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Wideacre trilogy volume 1
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English
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As an eighteenth-century Englishwoman without property rights, Beatrice Lacey is destined to lose what she loves most--her family's ancestral estate of Wideacre--unless her ambitious schemes succeed.
49) Alias Grace
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English
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Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 22
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English
Description
Something big is brewing in Trenton, New Jersey, and it could blow at any minute... Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), the unofficial student leader of the notorious Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one...
53) Seven sisters
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuthing quilter and rancher Benni Harper is invited, along with her husband, to celebrate the engagement of her stepson Sam to the daughter of one of San Celina's wealthiest families, but the party takes a tragic turn when a member of the esteemed family is murdered, and Benni is reluctantly drawn into the investigation.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
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English
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Amelia returns to the Nile for the 1895-96 season. She has a small pyramid to excavate but is interrupted by a brilliant Master Criminal.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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The return of the Emerson family to Luxor for the 1917 digging season is soon complicated by a ransacked royal tomb, a corpse, and a secret mission for Ramses to the beseiged city of Gaza.
57) The Bitterroots
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Series
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English
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"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...
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In Death volume 54
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Homicide detective Eve Dallas races to untangle a twisted family history while a hostage's life hangs in the balance-in the new novel in the New York Times bestselling series"--
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 24
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English
Description
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie’s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun — whether that’s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen. Events take a dark turn when headless bodies...
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