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1) School days
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.
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Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance Cabot and Holly Barker go to Maine to look into the deaths.
4) Bed of roses
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Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.
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Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
6) Even money
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Bookmaker Ned Talbot, dealing with having to pay out a large sum of money after the first day of Royal Ascot, is reunited with his father, who he believed was dead, only to see the man killed an hour later, leading Ned to race to uncover secrets in the man's past and the reason for his murder.
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Master quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, having uncovered letters in an antique desk written by slave Joanna, pieces together the story of the woman's life, learning of how she escaped only to be captured and sold again and created a quilt which hid clues about how to get back in order to be reunited with the son she was forced to leave behind.
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Bonnie Markham, her divorce pending and her quilt shop out of business, accepts an offer from her friend Claire to help run a quilting retreat at a bed and breakfast in Hawaii where she learns the quilting traditions of the islands, but her idyll is threatened by her estranged husband's demand for her share in the Elm Creek Quilts cooperative.
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When British intelligence receives a recording of terrorist voices during an Afghanistan ambush in which several soldiers and a medical team were killed, Sean Dillon is put in charge of an ensuing investigation to hunt down the attack's traitorous European commander.
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve...
10) Live to tell
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Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.
11) Split image
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Overwhelmed by a mob-related murder, his relationship with his ex-wife, and his battle with alcohol, Jesse Stone agrees to help private investigator Sunny Randall when she comes into town for a case, but instead of taking Jesse's mind off his problems, his involvement only causes more headaches and greater dangers.
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Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
13) Live wire
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar works to reunite client Suzze T, a former tennis star, with her rock star husband, Lex, who has walked away from his very pregnant wife and, unbeknownst to her, is troubled over the failing health of his father and the reemergence of his estranged brother.
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State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, but detective D.D. Warren soon realizes it is far from an open-and-shut case when it is discovered that Tessa's six-year-old daughter is missing and the clues lead to a shocking conspiracy that could destroy them all.
15) The chaperone
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This is a novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the thirty-six-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives.
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A new Miss Julia novel from New York Times best-selling author Ann B. Ross is a special treat for her devoted fans as well as those new to the adventures of the titular senior citizen. This time out, the proper Southern lady has a couple doozies on her plate. It seems that her friend Hazel's PI husband J.D. has gotten himself in some trouble in West Virginia-and he's one tirade away from landing in a jail cell. Meanwhile, a crew of misfits has followed...
17) Night watch
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Soon after New York City prosecutor Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend Luc Rouget, a famed restaurateur, the body of a young woman is found with a matchbox from Luc's restaurant in her pocket, but Alex is summoned back to New York to preside over the high-profile case of Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the wealthy head of the World Economic Bureau who has been accused of rape by a housekeeper, and another body with a matchbox from Luc's...
18) Sonoma Rose
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Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
19) Stay close
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Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
20) Six years
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College professor Jake Sanders can't forget the love of his life Natalie who married another man six years earlier. When Natalie's husband dies Jake attends the funeral, but the mourning widow is not Natalie, and everything he thought he knew about himself and his past comes crashing down.
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