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When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena?s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our...
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After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancé's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
6) Six years
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
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Cassie Beaumont signs on with professional matchmaker Simon Dodson. Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind, Simon assigns her three Christmas tasks to complete before she can meet him. Cassie does them all, and she's finally ready to meet her match, but just like the perfect Christmas present, he turns out to be a wonderful surprise.
10) Innocence
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Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy.
11) Wonder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
12) Hotshot
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Inheriting a luxurious oceanfront resort under a condition that she must run it profitably for one year to claim full ownership, food critic Peyton Lockhart is targeted by dangerous rivals and is protected from a threat against her life by childhood friend and attractive FBI agent Finn MacBain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
14) Unspoken
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Sixteen years after Charlotte Graham's kidnapping, a traumatic event about which she has never spoken, Charlotte is back in Chicago and is the only one who knows the truth, but even with the kind support of Bryce Bishop, she wonders if she can trust him enough to share it.
15) The face of fear
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
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Unabridged.
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6 sound discs (6 hours, 49 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A brutal killer known as "The Butcher" is stalking women in New York City. When the police enlist the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris, the horrifying images of the Butcher's crimes replay in Harris's mind and sometimes even at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all, that of his own murder. For Graham, facing his own murder is not as terrifying as surviving it.
17) The final cut
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Chief inspector Nicholas Drummond of Scotland Yard investigates after the centerpiece of an exhibit of crown jewels is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his colleague is murdered.
18) Sword of God
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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9 sound discs (10 hr., 38 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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One of the world's most dangerous terrorists is rescued from a secret bunker. When Jonathan Payne vows to avenge the slaughter of the terrorist's captors, he discovers a plot for worldwide holy war.
19) North and South
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Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point. Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter-until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
20) Taming the wind
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Though grateful for the blessing of her daughter, Carissa Lowe has accepted that widowhood is her lot in life. Bound by fear and mistrust, she feels incapable of opening her heart again. Tyler Atherton has never forgotten Carissa. When he discovers she's living with her sister on a nearby ranch, his life becomes intertwined with the lovely widows. And Carissa's daughter, Gloria, seems determined to wrap herself around his little finger. But while...