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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him.
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star,...
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star,...
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Amos Decker novels volume 2
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English
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Amos Decker, newly hired to a FBI special task force, takes an interest in convicted murderer Melvin Mars case when he discovers the eerie similarities to his own life.
3) Given
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Perhaps because the single bequest a writer can hope to give her characters is eternal life and because Susan Musgrave's creations from her previous publication, A Cargo of Orchids, intend to take her up on it, they are back with a new story in a brilliantly engaging novel, Given. Rainy, the Mexican-American woman, and Frenchy, the African-American, along with Musgrave's narrator X have returned and convincingly insist their story is not done. Once...
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
You Love Him. You Trust Him. So Why Are You So Scared?
Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was arrested and imprisoned for the brutal murder of a young girl. Now he's the subject of a true-crime documentary that's whipping up a frenzy online to uncover the truth and free a man who has been wrongly convicted.
A thousand miles away in England, Samantha is obsessed with Dennis's case. She exchanges letters with him, and is...
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Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
8) Blow fly
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia for a break in Florida but quickly finds herself drawn into a series of horrible, baffling murders. Before the mystery is solved, she will become entangled in an international conspiracy.
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Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die - he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women - a mother, a sister, a homicide detective - we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the...
13) Gone again
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
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English
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In this electrifying and fast-paced tale of suspense from the bestselling author about a Miami criminal defense lawyer who takes on his first death-row client - a case as twisty as it is shocking. Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in ex-con Dylan Kyle' truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother...
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Inspired by the atmospheric poetry of Langston Hughes and set in the heart of Denver's black community, this gripping crime novel pits three characters in a race against time to thwart a gross miscarriage of justice--and a crooked detective who wreaks havoc...with deadly consequences. What happens to a dream deferred--especially when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance? Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name...
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"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...
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"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
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