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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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Women's Murder Club volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"With San Francisco under siege and everyone a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other" --
"With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday....
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Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life - but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad when a colleague did something terrible. Now high up in the government, the man is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate knows exactly how he'll do it - by striking at Nate's friends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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Alex Cross novels volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"Engrossing...The Pact is compelling reading."—People
In this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent's worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?
The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason only: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found only left her with more questions-- and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called...
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Sisters of blood and spirit volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Twin sisters, one living in the Shadow Lands--the realm of the dead-- and one in the land of the living, are called upon to try and save a boy and his friends who have been marked for death by a long-dead serial killer.
11) Beloved: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
12) You say it first
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games -- games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave, and no longer a boy but an 'it'.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
15) 10th anniversary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Secrets. Lies. Murder. In this pulse-pounding Women's Murder Club novel, mysteries and lives unravel.
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby has been kidnapped without a trace. As her marriage begins to suffer from the pressures of work and her new boss watches her every move,...
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby has been kidnapped without a trace. As her marriage begins to suffer from the pressures of work and her new boss watches her every move,...
16) Wanted!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Alice gets an urgent call from her father to drive his Corvette to meet him immediately, and when he later turns up dead Alice is the prime suspect.
17) Lisey's story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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*Now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
The "haunting...tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey" (The New York Times), Lisey's Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.
Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening...
The "haunting...tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey" (The New York Times), Lisey's Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.
Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without...
19) Zero day
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John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life...
20) Kingdom of souls
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Kingdom of souls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned...