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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when he is called to a meeting by someone masquerading as his lawyer. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential re-election campaign committee -- now finding itself in need of a little professional help. So they "outsource" Meehan in return for a walk from all pending criminal charges. All he has to do is steal a compromising...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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During a state funeral for a beloved former First Lady in New York City's largest cathedral, the unthinkable occurs. Armed men disguised as monks seize the church and seal themselves inside, along with more than one hundred of the most powerful people in America. The captives include world leaders, actors, TV stars, athletes, and politicians, and the kidnappers are armed with enough C4 explosives to blow a crater in the middle of Manhattan.
NYPD officer...
3) The innocent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension, has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can...
5) Zero day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend, Petra, disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.
8) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
9) One Was Lost
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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For fans of In a Dark, Dark Wood and Survive the Night comes a pulse-pounding, psychological thriller. Damaged, Deceptive, Dangerous, Darling. When a group of teens wake up in the woods, these words are inked onto their skin. Are they labels? A warning? They must find the truth before a killer finds them. While on a mandatory senior field trip, a flash flood cuts off Sera and three classmates from their group with no way to call for help. But they're...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe in North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. With a major storm brewing, the time away doesn't look promising...until a guest named Paul...
11) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Some monsters are real.
Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwester woods. They are surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness.
During their first night camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then something emerges from the dense woods. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed-except the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
13) When I Kill You
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that, she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit.
And then Marcia Beekland enters...
14) Nowhere to run
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Game warden Joe Pickett has one week to go on his temporary assignment in Baggs, Wyoming, when he decides to look into reports of camps looted, tents slashed, and elk butchered, and he has a life-threatening run-in with two mountain men who see Joe as a representative of the government they despise.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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It's Father's Day weekend-a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners. For years Charlie has been alienated from his father-a retired politician who was always too busy for his son when Charlie was growing up. The trouble is, his dad has chosen this weekend to attempt to reconcile with his son. Charlie is not keen to forgive. But Charlie's personal issues suddenly seem mundane...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Piper's fall was no accident. Did someone want her dead? It's up to her sister to discover the truth in this shocking new thriller with an unreliable narrator, from the acclaimed author of Little Creeping Things. Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it; things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never...
17) Gallows thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Britain, 1820. After the wars with France, the government lives in mortal fear of social unrest. Rider Sandman is a hero of Waterloo struggling to repay his debts when he becomes involved in the case of a man waiting to be hanged in prison. Given the job by the Home Secretary of investigating the man's guilt, Sandman finds himself knee-deep in labyrinthine plots involving bribes, sedition and a massive conspiracy of silence.
18) Scarecrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet. It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out-an enigmatic Marine...
19) Scarlet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest--and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion--Will joins the heroic archer and his men.
Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging--unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts.
That, of course, he will...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for: a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys, and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down. She loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor, and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local café. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy...
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