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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
2) A wanted man
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 17
Language
English
Description
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
3) Masterminds
Author
Series
MasterMinds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
The first book in a new action-packed series from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for young fans of James Patterson and John Grisham. Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. Honesty and integrity are valued above all else. The thirty kids who live there never lie?they know it?s a short leap from that to the awful problems of other, less fortunate places. Eli has never left Serenity...
Author
Language
English
Description
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can't outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands...
5) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge novel volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnams' Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
7) High noon
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
Author
Series
Daniel X novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When the small community of Holliswood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a terrifying outlaw who deliberately instigates problems for the purpose of filming his crimes for television, modern superhero Daniel X assembles an all-star team to help protect fellow citizens.
Author
Series
MasterMinds volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
10) The shootist
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
11) Criminal (2016)
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate in the hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.
Author
Series
Detective Varg novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime, and staff members are wondering who among them will be transferred elsewhere. As the bickering between colleagues intensifies, Ulf tries his best to stay above the fray. But when Anna, a longtime friend and coworker, appears to blame him for an old case that went sideways, it seems she may be putting her own job prospects above their friendship. In...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom--notorious criminal Frank Foster--is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns blazing...only to find he has the wrong Frank Foster. Bride-to-be Kate Denver is appalled by her fiancé's over-the-top reaction and calls off the whole wedding. Guilt-ridden, Brett is desperate to get them back on track--but the more time he spends with Kate, the harder he falls...and...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A tough Hong Kong cop, Lee, and a fast-talking LAPD detective, Carter, join forces to solve the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat's daughter, despite the fact that they can't stand each other; Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy; When a Chinese criminal flees to Paris Lee and Carter find themselves in the middle of a battle between the French police and the Triad gang.
17) Legendary
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn't yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend's true name. The only chance of...
18) The Goldfinch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 2
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In the climactic second part of the Mesrine saga, Jacques Mesrine is back in France after his brazen assault on the maximum-security prison from which he daringly escaped. Once again in police custody and facing stern justice for his crime, 'the man of a thousand faces' escapes directly from the courtroom after kidnapping the judge at gunpoint. The life of Jacques comes once and for all to a full bloody circle.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 19
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one...