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Will the ties that bound these three families for generations finally tear them apart? New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel Twilight Whispers now available as an e-book for the first time.
Linked for years through friendship and intermarriage, the Warren and Whyte families find their charmed world is marred when Mark Whyte and his wife Deborah Warren are found murdered. Police detective Robert Cavanaugh, working on a...
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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District attorney Rachel Knight tries to find a way to clear the name of a close colleague, Jake Pahlmeyer, who died in what is suspected as a murder/suicide, while taking on his politically-charged case, involving a sexual assault against the teenage daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor who claims to know the identity of the assailant.
87) Billy Straight
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Twelve-year-old Billy Straight, a street kid who has fled a life of abuse and chaos at home, is forced to run for his life when he witnesses the vicious murder of a woman who turns out to be the ex-wife of a television celebrity.
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English
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From the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes another fast, funny, soulful, and sexy novel about friendship and love amid Latinas.
It's a jungle out there -- in Los Angeles, that is, where the tangle of freeways and ingrained insincerity can make a girl feel very alone, no matter how fabulous the weather or how cute the clothes at the South Coast Plaza mall. With very different styles and attitudes, Marcella, Olivia, and Alexis are trying...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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UCLA film archivist Valentino discovers priceless reels of film, as well as a dead body, in the basement of his newly acquired movie palace, and must help the police solve the murder if he has any hoping of saving the reels from being destroyed.
91) The scarecrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
99) Ball don't lie
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Delacorte
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
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