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"Four years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge. Ben, now sixteen, is committed to finding the monster who abducted and strangled Ellen. Police...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
5) Hamlet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Series
Defenders of justice volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Four years after surviving an attack by a serial killer that left her twin sister dead, Kate O'Brien discovers that the man in prison for the crime was not the killer, and it is up to U.S. Marshall Tony DeLuca to keep her safe from the real killer until he is caught.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 shared past they've endured. And then Ezra's body is discovered. Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with...
9) Dark room
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Kane is the New York Times best-selling author behind thrilling romantic suspense tales like Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Seventeen years ago Morgan Winter arrived home to find her parents brutally slain on Christmas Eve. A man was convicted of the crime, but new evidence has surfaced to prove his innocence. Now Morgan must face the truth that her parents' killer is still at large, and he's been stalking Morgan-biding his time before striking again....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge.
11) Pulse: a novel
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
12) Memory man
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Series
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English
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"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
13) Evan only knows
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting his mother in Swansea, Evan Evans encounters a young thug who was once imprisoned for murdering Evan's father and who has been accused of another killing, but Evan is surprised by the man's believable claims of innocence.
14) The cat dancers
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Language
English
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Managing the wrath of victim families when the murderers responsible for several deaths are released on a technicality, Lieutenant Cam Richter faces the difficult task of stopping a vigilante after the first of the released murderers is killed.
15) Pulse: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Boston, 1976. In a small apartment above Kenmore Square, sixteen-year-old Daniel Fitzsimmons is listening to his landlord describe a seemingly insane theory about invisible pulses of light and energy that can be harnessed by the human mind. He longs to laugh with his brother Harry about it, but Harry doesn't know he's there--he would never approve of Daniel living on his own. None of that matters, though, because the next night Harry, a Harvard football...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When the Swisher family of 2059 New York City is murdered, lieutenant Eve Dallas, her partner Peabody, and her husband Roarke investigate while protecting the family's lone survivor and witness, a terrified nine-year-old girl.
19) Nervous water
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne comes face to face with his past when he agrees to assist an aged relative with a sensitive family matter, embarking on a quest to find the man's missing daughter.