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Dollanganger family series volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An old woman in the house next door gives Chris and Cathy's youngest son, Bart, a strange book that drives him to the brink of madness, and then their family moves into the reconstructed Foxworth Hall, which has been left to Bart.
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Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
First in the New York Times bestselling series featuring fierce female vigilantes—includes a bonus Sisterhood chapter and an interview with Fern Michaels!
Life isn't fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty . . . if you're part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be—but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a...
Life isn't fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty . . . if you're part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be—but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a...
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English
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Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man her lover, her killer who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to...
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English
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the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
7) Free fall
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English
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Sooner Or Later, The Sisterhood Always Gets Their Man...
The loyal friends who make up the Sisterhood have gathered at Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home for the first time in a year, eager to talk, laugh, and share their joys and heartaches. For one of their number, it's an evening filled with anticipation. Because tonight, over delicious food and in the company of those she trusts most, it will finally be time to tell her story—and
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Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 15
Language
English
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"She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allen"--jkt.
When a bomb explodes aboard the yacht of an iconic member of the British royal family, Gabriel Allon is soon on the tail...
10) The fury
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Language
English
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Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
11) The beetle
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea...
12) The oathbound
Author
Series
Valdemar universe. Vows and honor volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The first book in the Vows and Honor trilogy unites swordmaster and sorceress in a quest for revenge in this thrilling epic fantasy
She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin’a’in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And trained in all the forms of death-dealing combat, she took to the...
She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin’a’in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And trained in all the forms of death-dealing combat, she took to the...
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English
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"A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in...
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Series
Cal Hooper novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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English
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A hand is found sticking out of the dirt at a construction site, and Joe Gunther's detective squad begins research into who the victim was, how he was killed, who might have done it, and why. But before they know it, several more people are dead, including one of the town's biggest drug dealers, and others are implicated in a variety of illegal activities, from members of the ruling elite to one of the police department's very own. Hampered by the...
16) The last hostage
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Kat Bronsky, a hostage negotiator for the FBI, is called in to try and talk down a hijacker who has taken a Boeing 737 flight hostage, until he gets revenge on the justice system that let his young daughter's murderer go free on a technicality.
17) The panther
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, search for the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
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English
Description
"When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular"--
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor...
19) Need to know
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 28
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Through all their missions and adventures, the tightknit group of friends who make up the Sisterhood have learned one vital lesson: everybody has a weak spot. In the case of Yoko Wong's dear friend Garland Lee, the multimillion-selling performer known as America's beloved songbird, that weak spot was trusting her lawyer, Arthur Forrester. For years, he's taken advantage of her faith in him to amass a secret fortune. And now, in the deepest betrayal...
20) Look closer
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession-and quite possibly the perfect murder"--
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