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Series
Women's murder club volume 24
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to prove that cattle king Eli Dearing has no justification for evicting his stepmother and half brothers, Asher Ellis uses the cover of a fancy ball to break into the Three Cedars ranch house to search for proof of wrongdoing. On the verge ofdiscovery, he flees, but a boy's cry compels him to make a daring rescue. Spunky and independent, Samantha Dearing balks when she learns the ball her father is hosting in her honor is nothing more...
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Series
Publisher
Sunrise Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Laila Rabbinowitz is all business. Tough and stoic, she was the perfect Mossad agent...until a terrible betrayal led to her worst nightmare. Being a bodyguard with the Elite Guardians allows her to keep her heart safe--she'll never let anyone close enough to betray her again. And she's certainly not going to trust anyone who doesn't earn it. Billionaire and former playboy Preston Whittaker walked away from his famous family after a terrible event,...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the...
6) Zombie kid
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
The Halloween plans of monster enthusiasts Nick, Carter, and Angelo are thrown into turmoil when a magical amulet acquired from Nick's voodoo queen aunt turns Nick into a zombie and prompts an effort to break the curse.
7) The Sky King
Author
Series
Skyriders volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Kie and N'Rah embark on a crucial mission to secure an alliance with the Sky King and obtain winged horses for the empire's soldiers before their world is destroyed, but gaining the Sky King's trust is harder than they imagined.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds atote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully...
9) Extinction
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths,
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
12) Think twice
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar novel volume 12
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth ... Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected business associates. Myron made peace and moved on--until now, when two federal agents...
13) The bricklayer
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a rogue insurgent blackmails the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and framing the government, the agency must lure its most brilliant yet rebellious operative out of retirement to unravel the international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 29
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Paterson, New Jersey's favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the next mystery in this fan favorite series from National Bestselling Author David Rosenfelt. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation - the dog rescue organization named after his beloved golden retriever - for years. It's always been his calling, even as Andy's pulled into representing clients in court. His investigator, Marcus Clark,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Follow Samira as she journeys through the Nazi-occupied French countryside, on a daring rescue mission to find her captured mother. Accompanied only by a loyal dog named Cyrano, Samira must rely on her courage and wits to avoid and outsmart the German forces. But it's D-Day, and with the Allied forces landing in Europe, fierce battles are raging all around. Can Samira reach her mother and save her in time?
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard - one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays - from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has...
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Language
English
Description
"Patrick O'Hara is back. It's been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant's caretaker after their mother's passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by, and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world... professionally. Some things have had to take a back seat. Looking...