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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
5) Double take
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Violently attacked by a stranger six months after the brutal killing of her beloved husband, Julia Ransom is narrowly rescued by special agent Cheney Stone, who reopens the case of Julia's husband's death when he suspects a connection.
6) High noon
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attracted to a talented police lieutenant who serves as Savannah's top hostage negotiator, Duncan Swift endeavors to become a part of Phoebe MacNamara's solitary life in both her personal and professional arenas.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
473 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the very dream of peace lurked a monstrous treachery. The galaxy is on the brink of disaster, a long-awaited truce torn apart by an unprovoked attack. The colony whose residents represented more than a hundred planets has been destroyed, and the new vision for unity in the universe is at risk. Faced with a war that would mean destruction and chaos, one man has stepped forward to lead those fighting for their lives. Undeterred by insurmountable...
8) Play dirty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disabled after a tragic accident, an eccentric millionaire hires a disgraced football hero to impregnate his wife, a plan that results in an obsessive love affair and life-threatening consequences.
10) A lady's secret
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jo Beverley keeps listeners hot under the collar with her riveting period romances. Here the lovely Petra d'Avernio is on a desperate hunt to find her real father-an English lord who doesn't know she exists and may be the only person who can protect her. On her journey she meets the devilishly clever earl Robin Fitzvitry, and a passionate affair is enflamed.
11) Smoke screen
Author
Language
English
Description
The themes of role reversal and the abuse of power figure prominently in a tale in which corruption and betrayals turn friends against one another and force criminals to become heroes.
12) TailSpin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched to the Kentucky mountains to discern the fates of a missing special agent and a doctor who is being protected by the FBI, agents Savich and Sherlock find the case further complicated by a young woman on the run and the doctor's mental deterioration.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
14) Execution dock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a thirteen-year-old boy is found floating in the river Thames with his throat slit, William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, pursues a child pornographer who runs a sex ring using small boys. Monk's wife Hester and several memorable characters from Dark Assassin return in this richly complex story.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife.
18) Wicked Prey (
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport deals with security concerns during preparation for the Republican National Convention, as a criminal from his past targets his fourteen-year-old daughter.
19) Blood vines
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this bare-knuckled adrenaline ride from New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler, Alex Clarkson's worst nightmares are about to come true...
A sinister, hooded figure...
When Alexandra Clarkson starts having terrifying visions filled with blood and ceremonial images, she tries to find a rational explanation — maybe her mind is playing tricks on her, resurrecting creepy tableaux from her research on religious ceremonies and sects. But...
20) Lost empire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt for a relic--but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.