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Paul Madriani novels volume 1
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Paul Madriani defends his expartner's wife in the murder of her husband.
42) Cherokee America
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"It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as "Check," a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused. In this tale of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a...
43) Mortal allies
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Sean Drummond novels volume 2
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English
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Sean Drummand and his nemesis are assigned to work together on a case in South Korea and find themselves involved in a case that could have serious national consequences.
44) Conviction
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
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2023.
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While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
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"This first entry in a taut courtroom thriller introduces the best character James Patterson or Mike Lupica has ever created"--Provided by publisher.
Once an NYPD cop, then a private investigator, Jane Smith is now an undefeated defense attorney who's steering a client possibly responsible for multiple murders through a headlines-making trial. She's confident and newly in love, but there are problems: she's facing a terminal diagnosis with just 14...
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Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.
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When two young lovers are found murdered at the base of Nine Sisters Henge, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers are called in to investigate the crime, but as the team digs into the victims' pasts, they discover a bizarre collection of would-be suspects and dangerous enemies.
49) Fire storm
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In Fire Storm, Andrew Lane's fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock, plunges the young detective into a fight for his life as he battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends.
Young Sherlock's friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it; the neighbors claim never to have heard of them. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity, until a clever clue points him to Scotland. Following
50) Jazz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
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Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears...
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A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." —Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT
"A singular voice in the world of literature." —Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.
Jay Reguero plans...
"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." —Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT
"A singular voice in the world of literature." —Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.
Jay Reguero plans...
53) The Cove
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The Cove is a postcard town on the Oregon coast. Amory St. John has been murdered. He was an abusive husband, and the prime suspect for FBI agent James Quinlan is St. John's daughter Sally Brainard. Quinlan sets out to prove Sally killed her father, but he doesn't expect to fall for his prime suspect.
54) The maze
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FBI special agent Lacey Sherlock satisfies an old grudge when she apprehends the String Killer, a man credited with murdering her sister seven years before, but a closer examination of the clues has Lacey wondering whether the String Killer is guilty of Belinda's death--and if not, who is?
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"Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking toward a man, and he's armed. You can't believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your son is now in custody, his future...
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Eager to escape life on her family's farm, Alice Barrow moves to Lowell in 1832 and throws herself into the hard work demanded of "the mill girls." In spite of the long hours, she discovers a vibrant new life and a true friend -- a saucy, strong-willed girl name Lovey Cornell. But conditions at the factory become increasingly dangerous, and Alice finds the courage to represent the workers and their grievances. Although mill owner, Hiram Fiske, pays...
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Harbinder Kaur novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this ... novel by ... Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery ... for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie"--
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Ed Eagle novels volume 2
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English
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Ed Eagle's plans to celebrate his fiftieth birthday by opening his new law office turn sour when he discovers that his wife has left him and stolen most of the cash in his personal and business accounts. He sets out to find her and resolve the problem, one way or another.
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2013
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Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP -- 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that...
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2023.
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"Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the 'final girl' at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business"--
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