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Archaeological mysteries volume 6
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English
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Lara McClintoch, antique store owner and amateur sleuth, is heading home after wrapping up her annual antiquing tour through Europe. She is invited to meet billionaire and famous antiques collector Crawford Lake, who wants her to meet the owner of an Etruscan sculpture and persuade him to sell it to her. This turns out to be a difficult task, when the owner turns up dead in his own Etruscan tomb, setting Lara on a quest for the truth, and someone...
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Four strangers--American, English, Irish, and German--on holiday in a Greek village come together after they witness a tragic boating accident. Each of them is trying to escape from a troublesome situation back home. As they become friends and lovers, two locals help them to attain perspective and self-knowledge. Bestseller.
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The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspector Wexford novel.
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...
One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards...
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...
One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards...
86) War trash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Novel in the form of a memoir by seventy-three-year-old Yu Yuan, who, as a young Chinese soldier captured by the Americans during the Korean War, was forced to become a prison-camp interpreter. He recalls perilous life-and-death power struggles between his fellow POWs' nationalist and communist factions.
87) Cold fear
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CNIB
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English
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While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. Because someone else who knows a dark secret from the past wants to find her daughter, too. Some strong language. 2001.
88) The last hand
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CNIB
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English
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Charlie Salter is sixty - the age limit for active police duty, but the recent murder of a prominent lawyer is the perfect opportunity for him to prove he is still up to the job. The prime suspect is a hooker, last seen near the victim's apartment. Salter's search leads him to a large poker game organized by the law profession's elite, where he finds the clues he needs to solve the case. Some strong language. 2001.
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CNIB
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DCI Pascoe is determined to prove that ex-con Franny Roote is dangerous. Edgar Wield is torn between saving a child and doing his duty by stopping a treasure heist. DC Bowler is looking forward to New Year's Eve but his dreams are filled with horror. DS Andy Dalziel learns that omniscience is trouble. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.
90) Red Rabbit
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 3
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English
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It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a freelance analyst, and he readily accepts. Debriefing a high-level Russian defector, however, he comes across an unbelievable plot: top Soviet...
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CNIB
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Still reeling from her recent divorce, Rachel Piers steps off the plane in Rome, prepared to embark on a demanding art restoration project that could enhance her reputation as a rising star in her profession. As she uncovers layers of grime on what could prove to be a lost Flemish masterpiece, Rachel finds that layers of her own soul - layers that she would rather have kept hidden - are being stripped away. 2004.
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With incomparable storytelling skill, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough brings Rome alive in all her majesty-and illuminates the world of those favored by the gods at birth.
In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. They were the chosen...and the cursed-blessed with wealth and privilege yet burdened by the dictates of destiny...
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Public Library InterLINK
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English
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In this romantic adventure set in 19th century, English gentleman Corby Morgan and his young bride Jessie arrive at their recently purchased sugar plantation and are nearly devastated by the difficulties they encounter: problems with the aboriginal workers, unsolved murders, a devastating storm and a clandestine affair.
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Edwina Henderson mysteries volume 2
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English
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Eddie Henderson is now in charge of the RCMP detachment in Gibsons, B.C. When a woman reports a theft and then another reports a break-in, Eddie considers both complaints insignificant. But as she and her new second-in-command begin to investigate, they are led into a confrontation with a dangerous stalker. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2001.
95) Death department
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CNIB
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English
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In a big Glasgow department store, shoplifting is an inevitable cause of loss. But when the losses skyrocket, the managing director senses that a highly organized swindle is in progress and demands action from the police. The mystery deepens when the head woman buyer disappears. Two savage murders follow in quick succession and the hunt is on - a hunt that leads full circle back to the store itself, as the cornered killer tries to fight free. Originally...
96) Midnight runner
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 10
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English
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The murderous Rashid family had been forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by enforcer Sean Dillon and his undercover team. Yet one member of the ruthless, oil-rich family had been allowed to remain alive, and now Kate Rashid has sworn vengeance on her brothers' killer.
97) Hard news
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Rune volume 3
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CNIB
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English
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Rune has now graduated to the first rung on the ladder of film documentary success - a major New York network news department. Once there, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the brutal murder of the network head, and to the young drifter accused of the crime, who, she swiftly becomes convinced, could not have been the killer. Despite the weight of evidence against the young man, Rune decides to try and prove his innocence, and finds an unlikely...
98) The opal seekers
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Public Library InterLINK
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English
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Spanning half a century of dramatic change, this is a rich and vibrant story of triumph and loss and of the bravery and determination of those who carved out an existence for themselves in the beautiful but unforgiving land of Australia.
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CNIB
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English
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from Northern Europe to decorate the walls of the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. Alessandra is drawn into the life of a city where the new freedoms of the mind rub shoulders with the old sins of the flesh. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.
100) Odd Thomas
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Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
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