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1) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
2) Mary Barton
Author
Language
English
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Description
When John Barton's wife dies, he is forced to raise his daughter, Mary, alone, while he grieves the love of his life. Though he is a hard-working man, John struggles to provide for his family. Realizing how unfair his financial situation is, John becomes very resentful towards the unethical distribution of wealth between the social classes. Against John's wishes, when Mary comes of age, she decides to help support their family by working in a dressmaking...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A tale of two sisters, family fortune, and murder: "Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner's thrillers" ( The New York Times ). Beautiful Sylvia Bain Atwood is overseeing her ailing father's estate while her sister serves as his caregiver. But their father's fortune has shadowy roots -- and now one of his creditors is blackmailing the family. When the situation escalates to murder, defense lawyer Perry Mason will have his hands full in...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A runaway witness leads a lawyer into a whodunit: "The only dull pages in this book are the blank ones" ( The New York Times ). Defense lawyer Perry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allred. And when he speaks with Lola's husband, he discovers the woman has run off with her daughter's boyfriend -- who happens to be an important witness in a lawsuit. Soon Mason's caught up in a complicated case involving not only a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A suspenseful tale of murder and mystery in a dysfunctional British family: "Babson is as easy to read as ever" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a scandalous murder trial. Cousin Chloe stands accused of stabbing her identical twin sister, Claudia, and Margot's well-to-do relatives are, understandably, a mess -- that is to say, even more dysfunctional than usual....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trial When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims the lives of a Puerto Rican drug dealer and a hockey mom volunteering at an inner-city clinic, the police arrest a rival gang member. With no...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Edgar Award-winning author's tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series. Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind in her haste, Mason winds up taking on a new client: a gem importer in his office building who's been charged with smuggling and...
8) Native son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.
Author
Language
English
Description
Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder with classic Margolin plot twists.
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy
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Language
English
Formats
Description
This rather simple plot is a most compelling drama that bristles with suspense as it contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery including, reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, and a tense courtroom scene.
Set in the fictional frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century, the book turned from a farce to a tragedy in the course of Twain's writing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three beautiful young women, Ashley, Toni, and Alette, are linked to a rash of brutal murders throughout the U.S. and Canada, and it is not long before police come to the horrifying conclusion that they are dealing with one killer who has multiple personalities.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
13) Aftermath
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This gripping new thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat. A devastating explosion. Three best friends are at the venue to hear their favorite band. Only one makes it out alive. A trunk full of evidence. When police stop Dustin Webb with a warrant to search his trunk, he knows there's been a mistake. He's former military and owns a security firm. But he's horrified when the officers find explosives, and he can't fathom how they got there....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three addictive novels of romance and suspense in a small California town In Stranger in Paradise, the first book of Eileen Goudge's bestselling Carson Springs series, an unlikely wedding upends the tranquil California town. It isn't easy to watch your daughter marry a man who's twice her age, but Samantha Kiley holds her tongue. Wes seems like a good man, and it doesn't hurt that he's also a billionaire. She has no idea that she will soon be caught...
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