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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth?
Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite....
42) The Boom Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Detective Mervin Pratt is enjoying a quiet dinner at his favorite Italian restaurant when he's called in to assist at a murder scene at a popular downtown nightclub. The manager has been stabbed to death in his office. The lead investigator, Detective Gordon, no friend of Pratt's, sees it as an open-and-shut case. He has the suspect, motive and even the murder weapon. But Pratt is unwilling to jump to conclusions.
When Pratt's young partner, Dave...
43) The Prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Don't miss the electrifying second book in the must-read trilogy of the year!
With death only a heartbeat away, Gene and the remaining humans must find a way to survive long enough to escape the hungry predators chasing them through the night. But, they're not the only things following Gene. He's haunted by Ashley June who he left behind, and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side.
Their escape takes them to a refuge of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Something is terribly wrong at Symphony Hall. Luigi Spadafini, the symphony's star conductor, has been murdered-and the entire orchestra has confessed to the crime. This is the mess that Detective Lieutenant Pratt walks into one Saturday morning. Overworked and tired, he's also saddled with Detective Ellis, the newest member of the homicide squad and still very wet behind the ears.
With both the mayor and several big shots from the symphony's board...
45) 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.
46) Out of the Fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Sadie meets One of Us is Lying in a mind-blowingly twisty, feminist thriller that will grab you from the very first page and keep your heart pounding until the shocking conclusion.
We were like fire, the four of us. Catching each other's sparks until the flames grew, spread, raged beyond our control.
We'll give them back the damage they left us with, burden them with the weight of our pain.
We may be temporarily broken, but we will leave...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery! Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane...
48) Skeleton Tower
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Jason's parents have been hired to work at a historic lighthouse along the California coast. The lighthouse is built along steep cliffs, surrounded by fog, and far from the nearest town. The last caretakers left in a hurry, and it doesn't take long to see why. Several accidents and the discovery of a hidden diary convince Jason the lighthouse...
49) Broken things
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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With all the intensity and whiplash turns of Sharp Objects and One of Us Is Lying, this engrossing psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships.
It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with...
50) Camp Valor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A young adult thriller from Scott McEwan, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper, and Hof Williams.
Valor: great courage in the face of danger
When Wyatt gets framed for a friend's crime, he thinks his life is over. But then a mysterious stranger visits him in jail with an unusual proposal: spend three months in a secret government camp and have a ten-year prison sentence wiped clean.
Wyatt agrees, and finds himself in...
51) You Will Be Mine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Love turns deadly in a new heart-pounding thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar and The Cabin! ROSES ARE REDVIOLETS ARE BLUEWATCH YOUR BACKI'M COMING FOR YOU Lylah and her friends can't wait to spend a night out together. Partying is the perfect way to let loose from the stress of life and school, and Lylah hopes that hitting the dance floor with Chace, her best friend, will bring them closer together. She's been crushing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one."-Booklist, STARRED Review
Stalking Jack the Ripper meets Devil in the White City in this terrifying historical fiction debut about one of the world's most notorious serial killers.
In order to save her sister, Zuretta takes a job at an infamous house of horrors-but she might never escape.
Zuretta never thought she'd encounter a monster. She had resigned herself to a quiet life...
53) Useless Bay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself. Together, they serve as an unofficial search-and-rescue team for the island, saving tourists and locals alike from the forces of wind and sea. But, when a young boy goes missing, the mysteries start to pile up. While searching for him, they find his mother's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"With evocative language, a shifting timeline and more than one unreliable narrator, Suma subtly explores the balance of power between the talented and the mediocre, the rich and the poor, the brave and the cowardly . . . To reveal more would be to uncover the bloody heart that beats beneath the floorboards of this urban-legend-tinged tale." -The New York Times
The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still...
55) Desert Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness. She has to run, to disappear, if she is to survive and tell the world what happened. Her flight takes her through a harsh landscape to places she never...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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With shades of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars and Courtney Summers's Sadie, this dark and twisted mystery set in a divided Maine seaside town simmers with unresolved tensions and unpredictable truths.
Everyone in Tenney's Harbor knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravaged their house, killing four of the five family members. But what people don't know is who did it.
All fingers point at Pearl Haskins' father, who was the caretaker...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia "Dee" Skinner is known as the girl who wasn't taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Mindy McGinnis, award-winning author of The Female of the Species and A Madness So Discreet, returns with a new dark and twisted psychological thriller-perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Fight Club.
Sasha Stone knows her place-first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her Oxford-wearing boyfriend. She's worked her entire life to ensure her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved.
But suddenly there's a...
59) The young widow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A CHARMING WIDOW WITH A TROUBLING HISTORY
As if by magic, Annette Berowne seems capable of dazzling men from the moment she meets them. But when Annette becomes the primary suspect in her husband's poisoning death, she arouses entirely different feelings. Now some men feel sorry for her while others are convinced she's guilty.
PROVIDES TWO DETECTIVES WITH A MYSTERY OF SEDUCTION AND MURDER.
Jack Gibbons is a by-the-book, rising star at Scotland...
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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...
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