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1) The poet
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While journalist Jack McEvoy is conducting his own investigation following the suicide of his brother, he becomes a potential victim of a serial killer who specializes in murdering police officers.
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"The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American's."
-Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words
A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt heralds the arrival of superb new voice in American fiction. A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, it chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from...
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Mark Cain's job as deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations has enabled him to track down ex-Nazis who have escaped to America since World War II, but when a mysterious woman asks for Mark's help, he fears his investigation may cause the woman her life.
7) Honolulu
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Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.
11) Prizzi's honor
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Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. When he meets Irene Walker, an LA-based tax consultant, it's pretty much love at first sight. But Irene also moonlights as a hit woman-and had a hand in a big-money heist in Vegas. Now Charley has been told that she's got to go. Faced with divided loyalties, he must make a choice-between the only family he's ever known and the woman he loves.
12) Forrest Gump
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Meet Forrest Gump, America's most lovable hero and the star of this wonderfully wacky novel. Pulitzer Prize-nominee Winston Groom's tale of a warm-hearted, slow-witted man's rollicking romp through three decades of history was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning motion picture Forrest Gump. But if you've only seen the movie, you've only heard part of Forrest's story. The original version of Forrest's adventures is even nuttier than the silver...
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AT ITS HEART ARE TWO EXTRAORDINARY LOVERS, SEPARATED BY TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES, yearning for each other, yet seemingly never able to be together again. Jackie Collins' American Star is a love story for the ages. Nick and Lauren can never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers - he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in town - their love was the town scandal, forbidden, sizzling and unforgettable, ending abruptly in a tragedy...
14) The terrorist
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Retired CIA agent Louis Morgon refuses the CIA's request that he participate in the War on Terror, preferring instead to live quietly in the French countryside, but he is forced to get involved when the agency imprisons the sixteen-year-old son of a friend, a boy Louis helped get a scholarship to school in the United States.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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When a young American woman who faced down hijackers on board a flight to the Middle East and saved the lifes of hundreds of people disappears, U.S. officials believe she has been kidnapped, so they call in CIA agent Emily Pollifax to find her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
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In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
17) Houses of stone
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English professor Karen Holloway searches for the true identity of an unknown author, tracking the provenance of the manuscript to Virginia's historic Tidewater region.
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My weird school volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Mr. Macky, the reading specialist who thinks he is Abraham Lincoln, assigns A.J. and his friends to read all about the presidents for President's Day.
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