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1) The teacher
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
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The only thing harder than solving a murder...giving birth!
A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connolly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear that the “it” may be her long-lost brother-in-law. When a private investigator begins nosing around, Kate decides on a new career path. Battling sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts, and breastfeeding mishaps, she muddles through her own murder investigation, 'Mommy style'.
To...
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
4) Ghostly paws
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Mystic Notch cozy mystery volume 1
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"Middle age can be murder... At least that's how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect... she sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian who insists Willa solve her murder." -- cover.
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The first mystery book in a rollicking new historical cozy series! When Lady Adelaide's dinner party is visited by lady death, she'll have to partner with the irksome spirit of her dead husband to crack the case…
"A lively debut filled with local color, red herrings, both sprightly and spritely characters, a smidgen of social commentary, and a climactic surprise."-Kirkus Reviews
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide...
6) The perfume
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Dawn doesn't want to try the perfume because she doesn't like it's scent, or its name--Venom. But something inside her is forcing her to try it.
7) Dig
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"A sprightly tale and a surprising ending, along with Clemens's trademark quirky characters."-Kirkus Reviews
When dairy farmer Stella Crown's friend, veterinarian Carla Beaumont, is car-jacked it's just the first of a rash of vicious attacks on local business women. Then three more women-a truck driver, a minister, and a personal trainer-are targeted for vandalism and theft. But the community is shaken to the core when the kind-hearted Dr. Peterson...
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Capital crimes series volume 7
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When the corpse of a young woman is found floating down Washington's C&O Canal, everyone is shocked to learn the victim is none other than Valerie Frolich-a senator's daughter, Georgetown graduate, and a rising star in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism.
Washington Post reporter Joe Potamos is good at unearthing the skeletons in the nation's capital, so when he's assigned the Frolich story, he immediately senses this case is rife with...
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Detective's daughter volume 4
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The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. Britain sweltered, trees and plants wilted, fire ripped through forests, and rivers ran dry. In London's Kew Gardens, a 10-year-old girl was parted from her friends and, dizzied by scorching heat, wandered lost into its secluded undergrowth. Forty years later, the detective's daughter Stella Darnell takes on a chilling new case. Along with Jack, a train driver, she will be drawn to the secret spaces...
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A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve.
Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father...
11) Code breakers
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Billie B. mystery volume 2
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Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Pub
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2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have found a mysterious note - in code! What does it say? And who could have sent it? One thing's for certain: it will take all the skills of the SMC to solve this mystery.
12) Working murder
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Clara Gamadge used to be half of a detective team with her husband, Henry, but now that he has died, Clara has to fly solo. Her first case alone turns out to be more complex than she had thought. Fifty years ago, her cousin, Ellen, vanished, and her aunt May suddenly died after ignoring a letter advising her to give up the search for Ellen. Now Clara must sort through the muddled facts and try to make sense of two mysteries: a death and a disappearance....
13) The dark hour
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Sydney Fitzpatrick series volume 3
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New York Times bestselling author James Rollins called Robin Burcell's The Bone Chamber "a masterwork of historical intrigue and cutting-edge forensic science." Now forensic-artist-turned-award-winning author Robin Burcell brings you the next powerhouse international thriller featuring FBI agent and forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick.
In The Dark Hour, Fitzpatrick is on the trail of a covert government agent's missing wife who is presumed dead-until...
14) Chick-napped!
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 13
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Aladdin Paperbacks
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2008.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When someone steals the newly hatched chicks from Nancy's classroom, where the class project was to raise chicks from incubated eggs, the girl detective and the rest of the Clue Crew are on the case.
15) The zoo crew
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 14
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Aladdin Paperbacks
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2008.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Nancy, George, and Bess must solve a mystery during a three-day overnight camp at the local zoo when someone steals the toys the campers made for the animals.
16) Just cause
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John Katzenbach's fourth novel, now back in print and with a new preface from the author, is brilliantly suspenseful, filled with the remarkable psychological insight for which Katzenbach has become revered. When burnt-out reporter Matt Cowart receives a letter from a death row inmate pleading his innocence, he is tempted to dismiss it out of hand. Sure, they're all innocent. But as the Miami newspaperman digs into the case of Robert Earl Ferguson,...
17) Spooky house
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Billie B. mystery volume 1
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Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Pub
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2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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The Billie B Mysteries take Billie into a new genre... MYSTERY! Billie and her friends dare each other to explore the spooky house at the end of the street. They are sure it's haunted. Sooo scary! But if anyone can handle ghosts, it's Billie B Brown!
18) Shattered shell
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 3
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Lewis Cole's latest case is about to go up in flames . . .
When a mysterious arsonist strikes the sleepy town of Tyler Beach, leaving a trail of burned-down hotels in their wake, the police are left baffled and scrambling for a suspect. Retired Department of Defense analyst and local columnist Lewis Cole once again finds himself called in to solve a critical case.
But the fugitive pyromaniac is just the beginning. When a monstrous act of violence...
19) Don't cry now
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"You're in danger. You and Amanda."
The warning draws Bonnie Wheeler to a place she has never been:
To the brutally slain body of her husband's ex-wife . . .
To the shattering of her perfect world by a murdered woman's secrets . . .
To a place where every truth becomes a lie-and every loved one is a stranger . . .
To a gathering darkness that threatens her innocent child-and herself . . .
To a home where nothing is safe, and there's no...
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A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere. A renegade U.S. customs agent, a brilliant and beautiful forensic phychologist and a streetwise convict master hacker are on the trail of the maniac who is methodically slaughtering innocent women -- a hunt that is leading a trio of...
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