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62) One got away
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Nikki Griffin novels volume 2
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English
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"PI Nikki Griffin - a badass bookseller who punishes abusers - is back in S. A. Lelchuk's One Got Away... Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt women. Her secret mission, born of revenge and...
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Apart from the crowd volume 3
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English
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"Miss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger grabs her off the street and puts her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. Called upon to rescue a missing woman, Mr. Gilbert Cavendish follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance. Before they can determine who was behind the abduction, they're seen alone together by a New York society matron. With both of...
65) The dark door
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A malfunctioning alien probe is running amok on Earth. Two detectives try to stop the killing but no one will believe their story.
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With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate...
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 5
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English
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In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true book woman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway...
69) Don't look twice
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Ty Hauck novels volume 2
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English
Description
"A master of no-nonsense, good, old-fashioned suspense….Littered with surprises from start to finish, Don't Look Twice offers the perfect blend of menace and normality."
-Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Venetian Betrayal Don't Look Twice, the third solo effort-and third consecutive New York Times bestseller-from Andrew Gross, author of The Blue Zone and The Dark Tide, brings back Detective Ty Hauck and ensnares him in a lethal...
70) Goop soup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
Nathan's career as a half-dead zombie spy may be over just as his training has begun when he and friends Abigail and Mookie enter East Craven's sewers to investigate the greasy green goop dripping from every faucet in town.
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Britt Montero novels volume 2
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English
Description
On the police beat for her Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero has a lot on her hands. She's investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. As if that isn't enough, there's the long-unsolved murder of a young girl that may implicate the frontrunner in the governor's race. And at the same time, she's on the trail of a serial rapist-who targets her in retaliation for her stories . . .
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"1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out...
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"Jessica Fletcher investigates a friend's murder and a dangerous dating service in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series... Jessica Fletcher takes up the cause of her good friend Barbara "Babs" Wirth after Babs' husband Hal suffers a fatal heart attack that Jessica has reason to believe was actually murder. At the heart of her suspicions lies a sinister dating site Hal had used while he and Babs were having marital issues, a site...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
Following the trail of espionage and technological innovation, and making use of newly opened archives, Michael D. Gordin provides a new understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race and fresh insight into the problem of proliferation.
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising international event marked the...
76) Storm warning
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
The shadow of the man in black has followed fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan on their worldwide search for 39 Clues that lead to a great power. The man has tried to kill them and he is a Madrigal, as were their parents. And now the man is ready to step out of the darkness for their final confrontation.
77) Pig island
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Following the trail of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pig skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups' isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil-and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold....
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Discworld volume 22
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English
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Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing-but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads-even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side....
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[2017]
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English
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Braids together three disparate strands--Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and a labor strike in northern Michigan--into one epic saga that holds meaning for working Americans today. Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. Grown-up anger chronicles the struggles between the...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.