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3) Dead eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.
4) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
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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...
6) L.A. times
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Vinnie Callabrese moves from the world of the Mafia in New York to the intrigues of tinseltown and carves a niche in the film industry until his old friends find him.
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District attorney Rachel Knight, having been told to stop her investigation of the murder of a homeless man, becomes aware that someone is watching her every move, and, when she finds a link between the homicide on which she is working and the ax murder of a police officer two years earlier, she begins to suspect the beautiful woman who was on trial for the previous crime and was set free may be her prime suspect.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
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LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his team of Homicide detectives wade into a violent situation when they set out to investigate the death of Father Jupiter, a brilliant astrophysicist who vanished from the profession only to reappear ten years later as the leader of the pseudoscientific cult, the Order of the Rings of God.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker...
11) Harbor nocturne
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Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD detective, multiple New York Times best-seller, and MWA Grand Master, is known as the father of the modern police novel and now, in Harbor Nocturne, he has produced one of the outstanding books of the year. Some LAPD characters from the acclaimed Hollywood Station series are here: the surfer cops known as "Flotsam and Jetsam", aspiring actor Hollywood Nate Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new members of the...
12) Windhall
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"A stunning literary thriller in which an investigative journalist in modern Los Angeles attempts to solve the Golden Age murder of a Hollywood starlet"--
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Will the ties that bound these three families for generations finally tear them apart? New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel Twilight Whispers now available as an e-book for the first time.
Linked for years through friendship and intermarriage, the Warren and Whyte families find their charmed world is marred when Mark Whyte and his wife Deborah Warren are found murdered. Police detective Robert Cavanaugh, working on a...
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From the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes another fast, funny, soulful, and sexy novel about friendship and love amid Latinas.
It's a jungle out there -- in Los Angeles, that is, where the tangle of freeways and ingrained insincerity can make a girl feel very alone, no matter how fabulous the weather or how cute the clothes at the South Coast Plaza mall. With very different styles and attitudes, Marcella, Olivia, and Alexis are trying...
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On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with...
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FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.
Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict...
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Toby tries to clear a dentist accused of a medieval murder Though an otherwise unremarkable woman, Mildred Minck has the distinction of being the first citizen of Los Angeles to be murdered by crossbow. The police find her dentist husband, Sheldon, standing over the body with the weapon, swearing that only Joan Crawford can identify the real killer. An insanity defense seems a natural fit, but Sheldon wants his neighbor, private investigator Toby...
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A simple job turns treacherous when Toby Peters stumbles upon a corpse It's a lucky thing that Cary Grant once trained as an acrobat, because Toby Peters's life is in the actor's hands. As the two men sprint through the pitch-dark woods, trying to elude the man with the gun, they come to a canyon ledge. With nowhere to go but down, they scramble over the side. Peters slips, and Grant grabs hold of his wrist. As the killer closes in, Cary's grip begins...
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A famous director, mired in a nasty divorce, hires Hoagy to salvage his name. In Matthew Wax's films, politicians are honest, parents are respected, and nice guys finish first. Wax has been Hollywood's most beloved director for decades, and his personal life seemed as squeaky-clean as the world of his films. But when he and his wife, leading lady Pennyroyal Brim, file for divorce, the mud starts to fly. She accuses him of bedroom tyranny, sexual...
20) The scoop
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Godmothers volume 1
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English
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In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life.
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