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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Seven-year-old Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the murderer of her sister. After twenty-two years in prison he returns, still denying his guilt, to their home town intent on proving his innocence and Ellie follows, equally intent on proving his guilt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
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English
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Bee is the only one unconvinced by the police report that declared her sister's death a suicide and moves into her apartment with the hope of piecing together the clues that will reveal the killer only to discover her sister had a stalker and was having an affair with a married man who got her pregnant.
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Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.
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English
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A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast-and died young. But her final scam-embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund-is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House-the place where Meredith engineered her final deception...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike looks back on the ten years since the murder of his younger sister Bliss, a rising figure skater whose unsolved death created a media circus that destroyed his parents' marriage and cast suspicion on him, keeping him from finding any sense of normalcy in his life.
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English
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A December 2022 Once Upon a Book Club Pick
"You'll get nothing done until you've reached the end of this excellent book." -Lisa Regan, USA Today and WSJ bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series
"[A] riveting tale . . ." -Library Journal
She wanted the truth. She should have known better.
When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter's world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads...
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English
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Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe's world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate's past, things she shouldn't know, forcing Kate to face the murky evidence surrounding her own sister's murder 16 years before, bringing Kate face to face with her deepest fear.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Emilia, a witch in the Kingdom of Italy, travels to Hell to uncover her twin sister's murderer while combating her growing affections for the Prince of Wrath.
Emilia sold her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, and now she is traveling to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath. There she is introduced to a seductive world of vice. The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in...
16) Surviving Haley
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Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Lauren Werthman struggles with guilt and depression. Even moving to another state and into a new home doesn't help her overcome the life-altering aftermath of losing her sister. Memories of the tragic accident reverberate through her life as her family tries to cope, but Lauren's life spirals out of control. Her mother criticizes her choices every day, her father continues to work later and later, and people at her new school seem to know the family...
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English
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He knows all about women, or so he thought... Dexter Yates leads a charmed existence in London, with money, looks, and girlfriends galore. Life's fantastic until Dex's sister dies and his world changes overnight. Astonishing everyone, including himself, Dex leaves the city behind, takes charge of his eight-month-old niece Delphi, moves to a beautiful Cotswolds village, and sets about working on his parenting skills. His neighbors, including cartoonist...
18) The Deception
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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""Fans of romantic suspense won't be able to put this book down until the final page is turned."- Publishers Weekly on The Deception When missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go... After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief...
19) To the Castle
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Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelfth-century Normandy-;as a fierce battle for the crown erupts, a powerful knight and his innocent bride will discover their destinies are passionately entwined...;.
Just weeks away from taking her holy vows, Nell de Bonvile learns of her elder sister's tragic death. Swept from the convent, she is ordered to take Sybilla's place as bride to Roger de Roche, heir to Britain's most powerful earldom. Lovely, naive and totally unprepared for life outside...
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Series
Whitaker Island volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
No matter where you run to ... Connor Rye seeks solace on remote Whitaker Island. When his first quiet evening ends with a blow to the head, it's clear that nothing-and no one-is as it seems. Still haunted by his sister's murder, he's buried himself in work while trying to hold his family together. Now, when he has a minute to breathe, he knows better than to get involved with a stranger, but it might be too late to keep his distance. Desire will...
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