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2) Running
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Language
English
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Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as runners-hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family whom Andrea has been secretly dating; Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea, and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his 40s.
It was Ellie who had led her...
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder. Horribly mutilated, her death is an obvious mirror image of "The Black Dahlia". In "Above Suspicion", bestselling crime writer Lynda La Plante created Anna Travis and James Langton. Now, in "The Red Dahlia", they return and must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered.
6) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
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Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
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English
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In the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Tasmin and her family are under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing red men and buffalo with towns and farms. Jim Snow, Kit Carson and one of Lord Berrybender's many illegitimate...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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"In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Goodreads.
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