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Three strangers who are trying to find their ways in the wake of loss become entwined in fraudulent schemes, which have a resounding impact on them all. One is a college student who hops a bus to break loose from his abstract and tenuous existence. Another is a man searching for his troubled twin brother, who has been missing for ten years. And another is a naïve, young woman who sneaks away from her small town with her former history teacher. Their...
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Everyman's library volume 122
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English police Sergeant Cuff tries to locate a fabulous diamond that might have been stolen by a group of Hindus who regard it as a sacred stone.
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Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road. Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he's Jewish; he's a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he's just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library's been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the...
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Beach reading suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of There's Something About St. Tropez
Sunny Alvarez and Mac Reilly always seem to find trouble in the south of France. This time, all the trouble began in Monte Carlo.
Sunny's relationship with Mac is in jeopardy and Monte Carlo beckons. Soon Sunny is pulled into a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores. Then there's her wanna-be-new-friend, who...
6) Liars all
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Brodie Farrell steps away from her business to go off in search of a cure for her son's brain tumor; meanwhile, Daniel Hood, who was left in charge, tries to find the stolen necklace that will prove his client's son's innocence, and Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon suspects Terry Walsh, his old adversary, may have a hand in the case.
7) Framed
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.
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This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
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Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author's restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement, and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes
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Nancy Drew girl detective volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Presents the second of a modernized series of Nancy Drew novels in which the girl detective, now equipped with cell phones and computers, sets out to solve the mystery of who stole all the money collected by participants in the Biking for Bucks charity event.
16) Zoobreak
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
17) Without a trace
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Nancy Drew girl detective volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Presents the first of a modernized series of Nancy Drew novels in which the girl detective, now equipped with cell phones and computers, sets out to solve the neighborhood mysteries of who stole a valuable Fabergé egg from someone new in town, and who has a grudge against zucchinis.
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Boxcar children mysteries volume 125
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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The Alden children set out to solve the mystery of who is trying to steal Mama Tova's secret cupcake recipe.
19) Monkey trouble
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Boxcar children mysteries volume 127
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.
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Mac B. kid spy volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it is up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.
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