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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A dog's discovery of a human bone drags Detective Bosch into a twenty-year-old case of murder, a case that leads him deeper and deeper into a violent past even as he finds his present being lit by a rookie cop named Julia Brasher.
3) The taking
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Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
7) Wish list
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If You Had Just One Wish, What Would It Be?
A brilliant movie career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, shy Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed young man named Felix touched her heart. . .then vanished from her life.
Now, she's about to do something shocking and outrageous--sell her house and leave Hollywood behind. Making her new home in the quiet town of Chula Vista, she...
8) 1st to die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
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English
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A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
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A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
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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...
16) W is for wasted
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2013
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English
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" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later....
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1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.
18) Pay it forward
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A young boy who believes in the goodness of human nature sets out to change the world with his seemingly simple plan, but he soon learns that some people are not willing to help him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon the members of the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of violent incidents put police on the trail of a killer or killers intent on murdering someone every three days. The investigation becomes urgent when Boxer learns that one of her friends is a target.
20) The chase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The 1950 discovery of four bodies inside a sunken steam locomotive in a Montana lake gives way to the story of a murderous 1906 bank robber whose ruthlessness challenged Isaac Bell, a talented detective struggling to identify and capture the killer.
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