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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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An exclusive golf course with a corpse in a hole, an aristocratic family with a damning downstairs secret, a brilliant doctor with blood on his hands. Suddenly it seemed that the nicest people were doing the nastiest things to each other and to themselves as death, drugs, and seduction plunged a pair of imperiled lovers ever deeper into the depths of a mystery in which beauty turned beastly and a master murderer exercised a most fatal charm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the...
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he recovers a client's missing tooth collection , finds a sneaky thief, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
6) Live wire
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
7) The alienist
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News
When The...
“Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News
When The...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Ten mysteries for ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, his partner, Sally, and the reader to solve. Solutions are given at the back of the book.
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English
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The sole survivor of a devastating ambush, FBI Hostage Rescue Team agent Web London would do anything to find out what really happened that night—and a ten year old boy may be the unexpected key in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite...
Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite...
10) Simple genius
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English
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Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation.
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
12) Hallowe'en party
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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English
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Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly novels. One of the teenagers, Joyce Reynolds, boasts that she once witnessed a murder, although she didn't realise at the time what she'd seen. Convinced that...
13) A night too dark
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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When a man believed to have committed suicide reappears from the wilderness, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Trooper Jim Chopin struggle to identify the remains of a mysterious victim, a case that is complicated by political factors at the local gold mine.
14) The gold coast
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English
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The Great Gatsby meets The Godfather in this #1 New York Times bestselling story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.
"[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men...
"[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men...
15) The trap
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer."--
16) Wild horses
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English
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From acclaimed master of mystery Dick Francis comes a thrilling novel about the illusion of film and the reality of murder—a New York Times notable book.
Thomas Lyon has finally been given the chance to direct a potential blockbuster, based on the true story of an unsolved crime that rocked the horseracing world twenty-six years ago. But a cryptic deathbed confession, an assault on an elderly woman, and a frightening threat...
Thomas Lyon has finally been given the chance to direct a potential blockbuster, based on the true story of an unsolved crime that rocked the horseracing world twenty-six years ago. But a cryptic deathbed confession, an assault on an elderly woman, and a frightening threat...
17) Easy prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In life she was a high-profile model, but in death she's the focus of a media firestorm that demands action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone feared.
19) The winner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Ten years after being framed for murder to force her into participating in a crooked lottery scam, a now wealthy LuAnn Tyler struggles to live a normal life as she finds herself caught between an FBI investigation and a ruthless man from her past, who will stop at nothing to silence her
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Boxcar children volume 13
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English
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny become trapped in a cabin by an unexpected snowstorm, which turns into an even greater adventure when they help their neighbors, a baker and his family, recover an old family secret.
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