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2) Hard Eight
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Stephanie Plum finds herself in over her head once again when she agrees to look into the disappearance of Evelyn Soder and her seven-year-old daughter as a favor to Evelyn's mother, who has guaranteed a child-custody bond with the mortgage on her house.
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Lily Thomas is an aspiring young ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily's future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident. Her father Bill has pinned all his hopes on his only daughter, and his dreams are now destroyed. Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on Lily that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and other brave...
5) Bungalow 2
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When Marin County mother and freelance writer Tanya Harris gets the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, she finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar world that forces her to reconcile her two lives as a suburban mom and award-winning screenwriter.
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Left Behind series. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--had happened and he had been left behind.
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Earth's children volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 53
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Ayla and Jondalar finally reach the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the settlement that is home to Jondalar's people. Here Ayla eagerly learns the ways of her new tribe while in turn sharing her knowledge, but finds her unique spiritual gifts make the quiet life she desires impossible.
8) Prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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From America's "Queen of Suspense" comes a riveting new thriller about a young girl's murder and a sister's search to find the killer. When she returns to her childhood home to re-examine her memories of the crime, Trish Duncan does not realize that she is putting innocent lives, including her own, in danger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A pair of twin girls are kidnapped, the ransom paid, but only Kelly is returned, with a note saying Kathy has been killed. When Kelly begins getting telepathic information from Kathy, only their mother believes she is still alive.
13) Dead and gone
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In Bon Temps, Louisiana, a race of unhuman beings--older, more powerful and far more secretive than vampires or werewolves-- is preparing for war. And Sookie Stackhouse will find herself an all-too human pawn in their battle as she investigates the murder of a were-panther.
14) Metro Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blodded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
15) The Guardian
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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ulie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or...
16) Loving Frank
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Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.
17) The price
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Bitter Creek series volume 4
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A Houston attorney defends a pharmaceutical company whose drug may have killed a young girl, and when the plaintiff's counsel turns out to be his high school sweetheart, an unexpected romance ensues.
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The New York Times bestselling author Steve Thayer introduces Deputy P. A. Pennington of the Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin, Sheriff's Department, in a gripping novel of sex, politics, and betrayal-where the lust for power leads a war-wounded young man through the explosive secrets of a small town in the presidential election year of 1960.
Michael and Maggie Butler are found naked and dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts....
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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"Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law - lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once." "Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.