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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Holly Barker, forced into early retirement from the army after losing a sexual harassment case, walks into a dangerous web of evil and deceit when she accepts the post of deputy police chief in Orchid Beach, Florida.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch-nemesis Sethos is at work.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time breaking up bar fights, giving out traffic tickets and finding lost kids, she dreams of one day becoming a detective.
Late one bitterly cold winter night, she comes across the body of a young woman lying on the edge of a snow-covered field on the outskirts of town. The girl appears to have been strangled....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Up north,
the summers are brief --
and winter, like death,
is cold and long . . .
Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But murder becomes an attraction here as well -- an especially brutal one -- when the corpse of a small-time hoodlum...
5) 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After completing graduate school, Lizzie moves in with her boyfriend in his mother's Fifth Avenue apartment and has a difficult time managing her career at a law firm, nonpaying job as a wedding dress restorer, relationship with Luke, and her big mouth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and mysterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend -- and spurred on by lies and treachery -- it leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in wait at a remote...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.
10) Red mesa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together. Against her family's wishes, she opens her own San Francisco law firm, only to find that clients -paying clients, that is -are wary of allowing a woman to manage their legal affairs. Just when her patience, as well as her money, are about to run out, Sarah and her friend and former colleague, Robert Campbell, attend a séance at San Francisco's Cliff House. Making...
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