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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 19
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Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend's concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending throughout the California coast.
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On August 23, 2008, whilst working as a freelance reporter in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped along with Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and their Somali translator and driver. Following her release in 2009, she went public about being shackled and locked in a shed, tortured and beaten by her captors for 15 months but she never talked about the alleged sexual abuse - until now. Amanda Lindhout has reported from war zones in Africa,...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
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English
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A riveting novel featuring the forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan - a story of infanticide, murder, and corruption set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining. When a woman flees to Edmonton, the investigation is joined by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant with whom Tempe had an ill-advised fling over a decade earlier.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling. It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox. But when school starts in the fall, it's Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something...
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"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
9) Revival
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
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English
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"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....
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