Suzanne Toren
1) 1st to die
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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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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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
3) Eggs
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Beloved best-selling author Jerry Spinelli works his magic again in Eggs. Eight-year-old Davey's mother recently died in a freak accident, and now he's stuck living in a new town with his grandmother. There, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Primrose, the 13-year-old daughter of a psychic who lives on the outskirts of town. Davey longs for the mother he lost, and Primrose is frustrated with supporting a flighty mother who acts like a child....
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In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (and baking) heroine is back, judging a contest where the competition is really murder.
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot...
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is back--and the cookies are crumbling--as acclaimed author Joanne Fluke serves readers another helping of murder, mayhem, and mouthwatering mystery...
Blueberry Muffin Murder
Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival--and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle...
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Hannah Swensen has her hands full preparing a generous supply of cinnamon rolls for the weekend Jazz Festival concert by the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band, but before the festival can begin the band's tour bus overturns, keyboard player Buddy Neiman is murdered, and soon Hannah finds herself uncovering a quantity of suspicious facts and a few local suspects.
7) Dolphins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the different types of dolphins, where they live, what they eat, etc.
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Hannah Swenson, owner of the Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, decides to investigate when visiting Lutheran minister Matthew Walters, filling in at Holy Redeemer while Reverend Bob Knudsen is on his honeymoon, is gunned down, leaving only a mynah bird as a witness.
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Hannah's on the trail of a pie baker with a penchant for murder.
It's been a sleepy summer for Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah is helping with her mother's wedding plans. When she accidentally hits a stranger with her truck she's wracked with guilt--and things get worse when she's arrested for murder! Now Hannah needs to identify the deceased, find the murderer, and still get to the church on time!
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Lake Eden's Hannah Swensen is finally getting married. Just for more excitement, she wins the Hometown Challenge on the Food Channel's dissert chef contest, and the show with all its producers and contestants come to Lake Eden. All is well until the unpleasant celebrity chef is stabbed to death in the Lake Eden Inn's walk-in cooler.
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The wind has sculpted Earth from the beginning of time, but it has also shaped humans-our histories, religions and cultures, the way we build our dwellings, and how we think and feel. In this poetic, acclaimed work, Jan DeBlieu takes the tempests of her home, the North Carolina Outer Banks, as a starting point for considering how the world's breezes and gales have made us who we are. She travels widely, seeking out the scientists, sailors and sages...
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When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and ended up driving a very impaired woman home....
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On a hot, muggy evening, the last thing Hannah Swensen wants to do is squeeze into pantyhose for the Grand Opening of the refurbished Albion Hotel. But with her famous Red Velvet cupcakes being served in the hotel's new Red Velvet lounge, she can't back out. The party starts off with a bang with the unexpected arrival of Doctor Bev on the arm of a wealthy investor - and comes to a screeching halt when a partygoer takes a dive off the rooftop garden....
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Meet the All-of-a-Kind Family -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie -- who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century.
Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor and visiting with the peddlers in Papa's shop on rainy days. The girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises.
But no one...
Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor and visiting with the peddlers in Papa's shop on rainy days. The girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises.
But no one...
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious...
Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....
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In Victoria Thompson's Murder on Waverly Place, midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mother's desire to attend séances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are holding hands around the table. Now it's up to Sarah-and her detective sergeant friend-to deliver her mom from scandal and ferret out the murderer.
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad enough. Discovering the body of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward floating in the gym's Jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's very own cream puffs garnishing the murder scene....