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4) Metro girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Bill Barnaby has disappeared and his sister Alex heads for Miami to hunt him down and finds herself battling hit men, international intrigue, and a good-looking NASCAR driver, Sam Hooker, who is also looking for Bill.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving humans, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
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Frank Mackey and Rosie Daly make plans to leave Dublin's inner city for a better life in London, but Rosie never shows up at their designated meeting place, so Frank leaves without her, only to return twenty-two years later as a detective assigned to investigate the discovery of Rosie's suitcase behind a fireplace in a derelict house.
7) Hangman
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Peter Decker, a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Police Department, agrees to help his old friend Terry with a favor, and when Terry and her sociopathic husband both disappear, Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, are left caring for Terry's teenage son, Gabe; when Decker is tasked with solving a case involving a murdered nurse, he begins to wonder what he needs to do to protect his own family.
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Dr. Kimberly Brandywine, not satisfied with the accepted knowledge that the only living things in the universe are on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, sets out to investigate the mystery of what happened to her sister (and clone) Emily, who disappeared, along with an entire village, in an unexplained explosion.
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Her twin sister is missing.
When Ariana Costas heard her twin sister, Zoe, had disappeared, Ari left Vermont and returned to her Jersey girl roots to find her. Ari didn't know what to expect from her search, but danger around every corner, dodging bullets, and a hunk in a leather jacket saving her was not it.
He thought she was someone else.
Detective Quinn Donovan thought he located Zoe Costas. Beautiful, dark haired and a perfect match to the...
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
11) Old boys
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In his magnificent new novel, with rights sold in six countries before publication, McCarry returns to the world of his legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent who is as skilled at choosing a fine wine as he is at tradecraft, at once elegant and dangerous, sophisticated and rough-and-ready. As the novel begins, Paul Christopher, now an aging but remarkably fit 70ish, is dining at home with his cousin Horace, also an ex-agent....
12) The terrorist
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Retired CIA agent Louis Morgon refuses the CIA's request that he participate in the War on Terror, preferring instead to live quietly in the French countryside, but he is forced to get involved when the agency imprisons the sixteen-year-old son of a friend, a boy Louis helped get a scholarship to school in the United States.
13) The hunted
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How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out? If there were one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers was sure she could rely on, it was her beloved husband, Michael. Recovering from an agoraphobic depression and prone to episodes of blinding anxiety, Lauren is a gifted psychologist for whom her husband's love and support mean everything. So when Michael suddenly and mysteriously vanishes, Lauren once again...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and, when he steps inside one, he is whisked away on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violent is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
16) Suspicious minds
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Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if he has something to hide. When Stirrup's daughter and her boyfriend go missing, Harry finds himself hunting a brutal murderer...
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A mesmerizing first novel about a man, a woman, and a disappearance.
"I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened."
So begins John Haskell's mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio, the story of a happily married man who discovers, as he walks out of a convenience store, that his life has suddenly vanished. In cool, precise prose, written...
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"Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod's investigation into the murder of a small-time heroin dealer is challenged by numerous suspects and an unexpected tie to the disappearance of fledgling private investigator Jasmine Sharpe's mentor uncle"--Provided by publisher.
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case, from New York Times best-selling author Peter Robinson.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased - a policeman who has since gone missing.
The dead woman in the car had been running from something - but she didn't run far or fast enough....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist,...
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