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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from that strange new place she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. Susie watches life continuing after her brutal death: her loved ones holding out hope she'll be found, her killer covering his tracks. As months pass without leads, she sees her family contorted by loss. With compassion, longing,...
2) Hamlet
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Language
English
Description
Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with themes of love, death and revenge, Hamlet is a rich and complex tragedy that continues to entertain audiences around the world today.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the...
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English
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Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment- a violent crime of passion- is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there...
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Series
Defenders of justice volume 02
Language
English
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Four years ago Kate O'Brien and her twin sister were attacked by a serial killer. Only Kate survived, and it was her drawing of the attacker-- along with last-minute evidence-- that convicted the suspect. She's been in witness protection ever since. When new evidence suggests the convicted man isn't the murderer, Kate is subpoenaed to testify in the new trial. Deputy U.S. Marshal Tony DeLuca accepts the assignment to bring Kate to the trial, remembering...
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Series
Kentucky nights volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The first novel in a new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh--you've met the Mackays; now it's time to meet their friends. Danger is stalking Isabeau Boudreaux. After the deaths of her parents ten years ago during a violent attack that left her blind, remnants of her vision are returning. But a series of accidents has convinced her friends the Mackays of Somerset, Kentucky, that someone wants her dead. When a roadside blowout...
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Language
English
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Nicole Avant--diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker--grew up surrounded by some of the most extraordinary artists of our time: Bill Withers, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier. Her parents--entertainment mogul, Clarence Avant, and legendary philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant--turned their home into a place of refuge and inspiration for a generation of geniuses. Nicole drew on that magical upbringing to create a stellar career in the music business,...
11) The king of lies
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Language
English
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From the masterful New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and Down River, comes this tour de force of murder and the dark ripples it sends through a man, his family and community. Jackson Workman Pickens-known to most as Work-mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the...
12) The kill clause
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Series
Tim Rackley volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Seeking justice after his daughter's murderer is released on a technicality, U.S. deputy marshal Tim Rackley encounters a group of streetwise vigilantes who have had similar experiences and who tempt Rackley to compromise his personal ethics.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In an abandoned building in 1973 in Osaka, the body of a murdered man is found. Working quietly and methodically, Detective Sagasaki discovers two people who appear to have clear links to the crime -- Ryo, the uncommunicative son of the dead man, and Yukiho, the charming daughter of the man principally in the frame for the murder. Decades pass. The murder remains unsolved. Ryo and Yukiho continue with their lives, disappearing and reappearing through...
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Series
Dark One volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Language
English
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Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson's new DARK ONE fantasy saga.
Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.
In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined...
Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.
In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives showed up at the restaurant where she worked and informed...
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Series
Woman who volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home ... The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death, January knows skullduggery is afoot and vows to fight back....
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English
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"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
18) La buena hija
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Series
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Español
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La nueva y deslumbrante novela de una de las autoras más vendidas del panorama literario internacional: un thriller absorbente que mezcla el suspense psicológico con la investigación de un misterio sin resolver.
Dos niñas son obligadas a internarse en el bosque a punta de pistola. Una huye para salvar su vida. La otra se queda atrás. Hace veintiocho años, un crimen horrendo sacudió
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relies on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son from her late husband's partner, recently released from prison.
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Language
English
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"Ruth Markel's tenacious fight for justice on behalf of the murder of her son, Dan Markel, and the struggle to be legally reunited with her grandchildren. Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida in 2014.In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan's death from several distinct perspectives: As a devastated mother with the unique human perspective of becoming...
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