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61) Airborn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Author
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The author presents a tender story of his family's love for their yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, and recalls how he grew from a mischievous puppy into a nearly impossible adult that no amount of obedience school training could correct, and of the love they felt for him.
63) Silent witness
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord leaves town under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend is found raped and murdered, but he returns twenty-seven years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student and finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend's house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina's friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out...
Author
Language
English
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Description
John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective and now an agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, and his wife Kate, an FBI agent, set out to re-open the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 which exploded in midair, and encounter a high-level conspiracy that could raise serious issues about national security.
69) The inner circle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
70) Hardball
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator V. I. Warshawski, having agreed to help find a man who has been missing for forty years, uncovers racially charged secrets from the 1960s, while also tracking down a cousin who went missing while in town to work on a political campaign.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty. A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant in an old and distinguished line of witches, wants nothing to do with sorcery, but while doing research at Oxford's Bodleian Library, she unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript that causes a stirring in the underworld that only she can calm.
73) Split image
Author
Language
English
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Description
Overwhelmed by a mob-related murder, his relationship with his ex-wife, and his battle with alcohol, Jesse Stone agrees to help private investigator Sunny Randall when she comes into town for a case, but instead of taking Jesse's mind off his problems, his involvement only causes more headaches and greater dangers.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old twins Valentina and Julia Poole inherit their aunt Elspeth Noblin's London apartment and travel from Chicago to England where they become caught up in the lives of their neighbors, including Martin, a crossword-puzzle setter with obsessive compulsive disorder, his devoted wife Marijke, and Elspeth's lover Robert, as well as the ghosts of the vast Highgate Cemetery next to the building.
75) Dear John
Author
Publisher
Warner Books Large Print
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
John Tyree, home on leave from the Army, meets Savannah Curtis, an upper class, straight-laced college student working with Habitat for Humanity in North Carolina, and although their values conflict, the attraction remains strong until the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. prompt John to re-enlist.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. 'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.' So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame...
77) Breaking news
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry decides to stay in Charleston, North Carolina, to care for her ailing housekeeper and also finds an opportunity to model for her friend's new line of cosmetics, and at the same time she is planning her daughter's upcoming wedding, her criminal ex-boss shows up.
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 14
Publisher
Large Print Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven true stories about unsuspecting victims of violent crimes who died at the hands of a spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager in which a recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women"--
It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and...
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