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For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. The years have been immensely kind to Lady Adriana. No longer the plain, thin tomboy Colton had spurned, she has blossomed into an uncommon beauty desired by nearly every eligible bachelor in the land. To demonstrate his belief that love cannot be forced, Colton agrees to court Lady...
82) Alpha instinct
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Moon shifter volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
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When devious shifter Sean Taggart tries to claim both her ranch and her as his own, Ana Cordona, a leader for the lupine shifters, turns to her former lover Connor Armstrong for help, and, in exchange for his protection, agrees to be his mate.
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Poison diaries trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.
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Pub. Date
2012
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Private investigator Vish Puri, looking into the murder of a Pakistani cricketer's elderly father, is forced to travel deep into Pakistan, infiltrate the region's organized crime, and team up with his mother, something he swore he would never do, in order to solve the case.
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[2021]
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"In 2018, a former Russian secret agent and his daughter were poisoned with a lethal neurotoxin that left them slumped over on a British park bench in critical condition. The story of who did it, and how these horrendous contaminants were developed, captivates and terrifies in equal measure. It has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev's latest page-turning novel. At its center is a scheming chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"In England’s stately manor houses, murder is not generally a topic for polite conversation. Mallowan Hall, home to Agatha Christie and her husband, Max, is the exception. And housekeeper Phyllida Bright delights in discussing gory plot details with her friend and employer . . . The neighboring village of Listleigh has also become a hub of grisly goings-on, thanks to a Murder Fête organized to benefit a local orphanage. Members of The Detection...
88) City of crows
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c2018.
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City of Crows is a the story of Charlotte Picot, a young woman forced to venture to the fearsome city of Paris in search of her kidnapped son, Nicolas. Early on in her journey, fate places the quick-witted charlatan Adam Lesage in her path. Lesage is newly released from the prison galleys, but Charlotte, believing him to be a spirit she has summoned from the underworld, enlists his help in finding her child. Charlotte and Lesage--comically ill-matched...
89) Assassin
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...
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Catherine Ling novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
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When CIA operative Catherine Ling's old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about.
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Club CSI volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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With yesterday's meatless meatloaf probably responsible for an outbreak of food poisoning at the Woodlands Junior High cafeteria, everyone blames the new science teacher, but the students in Club CSI are convinced that their teacher is innocent.
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Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo." In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and fans alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa-Detective Galileo-returns in a new case...
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McClouds and friends volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
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Lara Kirk lives in a shadowy world where reality and fantasy are one. Her captors have poisoned her body with concoctions that enhance psychic abilities and they seem to be working. To escape, Lara has formed a deep attachment with a man whose virile, sensual presence in her mind is her only comfort. She's not even sure if he's real until the six-foot-five-inch powerhouse bursts in to rescue her. Once freed, Lara has no choice but to trust Miles...
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Sin Eater's daughter volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Using magic to control the golems he has raised, the legendary Sleeping Prince has woken, killed King Merek, and taken Lormere, and many of its people are refugees, including Errin and her sick mother--but there are those who oppose the Prince, and Errin, a skilled apothecary, may hold the key to ending his power.
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Secrets of the sky volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Kiya and Kinjal have succeeded in their first quest in the magical world of the Kingdom Beyond, but whatever good they achieved might not be enough. Their faithful flying horses Snowy and Raat reappear and whisk them back to the Kingdom to help the . . . winged merpeople who are slowly being poisoned by the very water in which they live. It is up to the twins to figure it out and put a stop to it. Fortunately, Kiya has the know-how to solve this...
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Crime reporter Hilde Lysiak always gets the scoop! Special tomato plants were stolen from a local greenhouse! Hilde wants to catch the thief. So she and her sister Izzy start interviewing witnesses. But they soon discover that people all around town are getting sick! Can this real-life reporter get to the root of these two mysteries?"
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[2016]
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"Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case." --Back cover.
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Princess Pulverizer volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Princess Pulverizer's friend Dribble the dragon gets the chance to run his own restaurant but when villagers start feeling sick to their stomachs, Dribble is blamed. Princess Pulverizer must clear her friend's name before his reputation is ruined.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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When just ten kids from two cliques at Hubble Middle School get sick after eating in the cafeteria it seems like somebody is deliberately trying to poison them, and while there are several suspects for who might want to get back at the super-cool girls, the other group are the innocuous comic book buffs--so it is up to Zoe and the other members of the S.M.A.R.T.S. to solve the mystery.