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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violent is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
44) Cargo of eagles
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A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).
Strange things are happening in Saltey. The little village on the Essex coast is invaded by bikers and a parade of peculiar visitors, a newly released prisoner is rumored to be in the area, Mr. Lugg has bought a bungalow there, the Saltey Demon is on the loose again . . . and Albert Campion is looking for the disappearance...
46) Something blue
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
49) Black plumes
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English
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A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." -The New York Times
Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed-has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister's husband, Robert Madrigal, but...
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd and Detective Inspector Judy Hill become involved in one of the most unusual investigations of their careers when Bernard Bailey, a violent man who has married for convenience in an attempt to win an inheritance, is found murdered.
53) Ritual
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Police diver Flea Marley teams up with Bristol detective Jack Caffery to investigate the disappearance of a young man whose severed hands were found shortly after he vanished in the city's underworld of drug addiction and prostitution, and where the revival of a disturbing African ritual recalls Flea to the tragic loss of her own parents during a dive in South Africa.
55) In a dry season
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When water drains from a man-made reservoir, a forgotten town is discovered, and when local residents find a human skeleton, Inspector Alan Banks is called in to solve a murder that is more than forty years old.
56) Almost the truth
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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When his daughter, Hannah, is raped, Derek Jarvis decides to take matters into his own hands and discovers more about himself than he wanted to.
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Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Ellie Lerner, having felt like her career and marriage were on hold since the death of her infant daughter, moves from Boston to London to try and help her deceased friend's daughter cope with the effects of seeing her mother murdered and finds her life being transformed.
59) Payback
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English
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It is early February and security consultant, ex-cop and some-time detective Billy Oliphant is suffering from more than just winter blues. His girlfriend is on a year's sabbatical in North America. His ex-wife is on honeymoon with her new husband - and Billy's left babysitting his 16-year-old daughter. Billy's friend, Sly, thinks that a free luxury weekend at the Forestcrag Moorland Holiday Village will be just the thing to cheer Billy up. But, having...
60) The look
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
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