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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
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Language
English
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On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
3) The summons
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©1995.
Language
English
Description
In Bath, England, an escaped murderer kidnaps a police chief's daughter and the chief appeals for help to Peter Diamond, the ex-constable who put the murderer away. A moment of sweet satisfaction for Diamond, now pushing supermarket carts, having been fired from the force for being cheeky to the chief. By the author of Diamond Solitaire.
5) Hannibal
Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A showdown between two psychopathic killers with a beautiful FBI agent caught in the middle. From his respirator, Mason Verger orders the capture of Hannibal Lecter, the man who put him there, and the bait is Clarice Starling with whom Lecter crossed swords in The Silence of the Lambs.
Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 2
Language
English
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Despairing of finding the mysterious figure responsible for the murder of his identical twin, Rand McCree assists a rich socialite with an art exhibition that has inadvertently entangled her in a money laundering operation.
Author
Series
Scarlett and Browne volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Albert and Scarlett are a formidable pair. With his ability to read minds and her way with a weapon, no bank can keep them out and no jail can keep them in. But their notoriety may have spread a bit too far. Now old enemies from Scarlett's past and a sinister new threat from Albert's world are boxing them in--and holding their friends hostage. To win their freedom, the outlaws Scarlett and Browne are charged with pulling off an impossible mission....
8) The chase
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
Author
Series
Izzy Spellman volume 1
Language
English
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She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?
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English
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"One of Tom Clancy's most storied characters, Dominic Caruso, is the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands in this blockbuster new novel written by Clancy's longtime coauthor. Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals. In Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Dominic Caruso is presented with the deadliest challenge of his career. Already scarred by the...
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English
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"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II-an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden...
12) Suspect
Author
Series
Joseph O'Loughlin volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When psychologist Joe O'Loughlan is called in to consult with police on a brutal murder, he discovers that the victim is a former client who once falsely accused him of rape. Joe becomes the police's principal suspect, while he begins to suspect another former patient.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Barnabas Sackett carves a place for himself, his growing family, and a few close friends out of the harsh landscape.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After a corrupt deputy killed his family, burned his home, and left him with nothing but a sword scar across his face, Ben Cutler came back to settle the score. The townsfolk called it justice, but a judge called it murder--so now Cutler is a wanted man. Trailed by an obsessed federal marshal, ambushed by a vengeful Sioux warrior, and running afoul of a low-down scoundrel in Deadwood, Cutler is in for a long, hard ride before he can find any peace....
Author
Series
Dirty business mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"'Fugitive Mom'. That's the tabloid headling that rocks Springfield, Connecticut, when it's discovered that one of their favorite ladies is a fugitive from the law. Paula Holliday, professional landscaper and amateur sleuth, is hired by the woman's family to find out who dropped the dime -- and why the long-kept secret is enough to kill for. With a little help from the always game Lucy Cavanaugh, Paula digs up the dirt ..."--Page 4 of cover.
17) Labor Day
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
Description
Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.
18) Gone South
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1992.
Language
English
Description
After killing a man in an instant of blind fury and fear, Dan Lambert--desperate, unemployed, and torn by dark memories--flees south toward the Louisiana bayous in search of personal redemption, with the police and bounty hunters in close pursuit.
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Having stolen a million-dollar Marc Chagall masterpiece, thirty-year-old quiz-show writer Benjamin Ziskind and his twin sister work to evade the police and evaluate the eighty-year-old link between their family and the famous painting.
20) Shibumi: a novel
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Nicholai Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished and well paid assassin.
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