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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A pair of twin girls are kidnapped, the ransom paid, but only Kelly is returned, with a note saying Kathy has been killed. When Kelly begins getting telepathic information from Kathy, only their mother believes she is still alive.
82) First family
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
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A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
84) Truman
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Full scale biography of Harry S. Truman, his life and times, drawn from newly discovered archival material and interviews with Truman family, friends, and political figures.
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"A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn't be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single mother for years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking herself if she truly knows her children . . . or if her hopes...
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
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Soon after he is back on the beat as Tamarack County Sheriff, Cork O'Connor is called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is a Chicago businessman, who was involved in negotiating an unpopular contract between his firm and an Ojibwe Indian casino.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with friends, when a frightened voice calls out to him from a nearby lake.
89) Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
90) The last juror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
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Beginning slowly with the day-to day life of private eye Kinsey Millhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. Though set in the late eighties, T is for trespass could not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions...
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Wheel of time volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 38
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Rand Al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, the leader who will save the world but in the process destroy it. He is able to touch the One Power but cannot control it. He knows only that he must face the Dark One in a battle to the death.
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 10
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Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don't exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of terrorist attacks is set in motion. The goal: the total collapse of the United States. With the CIA's intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terrorists's...
94) Midnight Bayou
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While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
95) The Fountainhead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...
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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives....
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn introduces the young Mitch Rapp as he takes on his first covert assignment. Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck. Terrorists attacked innocent American citizens, and Rapps girlfriend was among the murdered. Two hundred and seventy souls perished on that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort....
98) The Neighbor
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A young mother disappears from her South Boston home leaving behind her four-year old daughter as the only witness and her secretive husband as the prime suspect. When Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren arrives at the home, she detects something off. On the surfac Jason and Sandra Jones are like any other hardworking couple raising a child, but just below the surface things grow murkier. Jason seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his...
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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
100) Bad business
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Spenser novels volume 31
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Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O'Mara's unconventional--and possibly deadly--views on cross-connubial relationships. To complicate matters even more, a murder occurs...