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Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and dangerous, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and the media, the heat is turned up on Jesse. He's spending too much time with the bottle-and with his ex-wife -- neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself, convinced-despite all the odds-that it's up to him alone to stop...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the mid 1700s, Hallie Brady, married to a fool, finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a few other families. For shelter from the oncoming winter, the group digs in and Hallie becomes the founder of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Over the centuries, the people and landscape of Blackwell have changed, but the red garden, the land where Hallie's house originally stood, has endured.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Former Los Angeles police officer Jesse Stone, fired for drinking on the job, has taken a position as Chief of Police in Paradise, Massachusetts, but he learns that big city crime can happen even in the most bucolic of towns when the body of a young woman washes up on the shore of a local lake.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone must cope with two murders in his town in less than one week. When a sad link between the deaths is discovered, Stone becomes involved in an investigation that is malevolent and frightening.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A broken marriage and a drinking problem propels LAPD cop Jesse Stone into accepting what he believes will be a peaceful job as police chief in the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, but he quickly learns that the surface quiet of the community masks a hotbed of crime, and he must choose whether he will be a hero or a dupe.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jesse Stone, police chief in the small coastal town of Paradise, Massachusetts, is faced with one of the most dangerous and personal cases of his career when nearby Stiles Island, a wealthy community accessible only by bridge, is attacked by robber James Macklin who sees the opportunity for the ultimate score.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over.
11) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Cameron McDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he has killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty — the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter,...
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone investigates the murder of heiress Florence Horvath after her body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts.
14) Massachusetts
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
143 p.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this hstorically significant state.
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
When Sunny Randall is hired to protect Erin Flint, a rising movie star, she soon finds herself investigating the murder of Erin's sister.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Jesse Stone must work with Apache hit man Wilson "Crow" Cromartie to rescue a troubled teenaged girl who is mixed up with members of a Latino gang.
18) The river king
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
An inexplicable death in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.
Series
Jesse Stone volume part 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island volume 3
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mia Devlin knows what it's like to love with your whole heart-and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. When Sam finally returns to Three Sisters Island, Mia refuses to admit that a passion for him still burns up her heart. But she'll need his help-and his powers-to face her greatest, most terrifying challenge
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