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1) Zero day
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
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Charlie and Oliver, brothers and bankers at a very exclusive bank, accept an offer of three million dollars in an apparently abandoned account when they are fired from their jobs but find they are in over their heads when a friend ends up dead and the bank, the Secret Service, and a private investigator begin hounding them.
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From the author of Gap Creek-an international best-seller and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award-comes the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and the confines of their mountain world in 1920s Appalachia.
The Powell brothers-Muir and Moody-are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams. Moody, the older and wilder brother-embittered by the death of his father, by years...
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Dominic Renbourne agrees to take his twin brother Kyle's place at Warfield Manor, where he is to woe Lady Meriel Grahame, the wealthy heiress Kyle intends to marry, but Dominic never dreamed he would fall in love with the beautiful but sad young woman who is trying to escape from a world that terrifies her.
7) Saint maybe
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In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.
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Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim...
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The death of Vernon Proctor, the oldest of three illiterate brothers living on primitive farm in upstate New York, sets off a wave of suspicion and accusations in the community, and complicates the work of state trooper Del Graham, who must look at Creed and the feeble-minded Audie as suspects.
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Children of the red king volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Charlie Bone and his friends find Ollie Sparks, an invisible boy living in the academy's attic, and promise to make him visible again with the help of his older brother, Mr. Boldova.
11) Iron house
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.
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A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined
13) Sons of fortune
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Fraternal twins Nat and Fletcher, separated at birth in 1940s Connecticut, follow different paths to success until they finally meet and realize their connection while running against each other for governor of Connecticut.
15) Trust your eyes
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A schizophrenic, map-obsessed, shut-in who tours the world using a computer program witnesses what he believes to be a murder in downtown New York City and enlists his caretaker brother in an effort to investigate.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila take a road trip to address Manny's PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to help T. change his life and win the heart of Wendy Martinez. Includes information and resources about PTSD.--
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One grueling day in L.A., Jake Damon, a bike messenger working for a sleazy LA lawyer collides with a car and loses an important package. The already-bad day turns even worse when Jake returns to the attorney's office only to find him dead, the place ransacked, and the police suspecting him of the murder. In order for him to clear his name and save both his life and the life of his young brother, Jake takes off, on the run from both the law and the...
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Chicago wizard Harry Dresden investigates the slayings of several of the city's supernatural underclass by a murderer referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches and finds himself caught in a power struggle with the White Court of vampires and trying to clear his half brother Thomas's name.
19) Six bits a day
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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