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British police detective Luke Thanet tracks a housewife’s killer in the debut novel of an award-winning mystery series “in the P. D. James manner” (Kirkus Reviews).
Luke Thanet is a British police inspector with a soft heart, bad back, and bloodhound’s nose for murder. When a young woman is found stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife, Thanet and his partner, the brusque young Mike Lineham, rush...
Luke Thanet is a British police inspector with a soft heart, bad back, and bloodhound’s nose for murder. When a young woman is found stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife, Thanet and his partner, the brusque young Mike Lineham, rush...
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Ramona Quimby novel volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
83) Resurrection row
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Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. Even more shocking--it is the body of a peer of the realm who had been decently buried the week before. While the doctor insists Lord Fitzroy-Hammond died a natural death, the Pitts find the situation anything but natural.
84) "A" is for alibi
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Millhone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect--a second eight-year-old murder and...
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Series
Star trek volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Captain Kirk must destroy the Mercaniad, the sun of the planet Mercan, but in doing so would kill the citizens of Mercan.
86) Ceremony
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 9
Publisher
Delacorte Press /S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
87) Cinnamon skin
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English
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When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed.
89) Murdock's law
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English
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Special U.S. Deputy Page Murdock rides into Breen, Montana, on the trail of a menacing and elusive outlaw. But before he can scout the saloons for his man, he is made town marshal in a territory heating up for the ugliest range war this side of hell. The big ranchers want a gunslinger marshal, and the small ranchers have their own hired gun. But the badge on Murdock's chest means law, and he'll enforce it the best way he knows ... with a gun.--
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Series
Robert Ludlum novel volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Czech-born CIA agent Michael Havelock discovers a maniacal, potentially disastrous conspiracy at the highest levels of the U.S. government and must act on his own to thwart that conspiracy and ensure his own future.
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Soldiers on opposite sides in the Civil War, Dal and Mac Traven must join forces to defeat their longtime rivals, a ruthless band of killers whose reign of death and pillage extends south of the border.
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Series
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English
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Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest-real estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee is hiding his missing wife Angry and jealous, Harry gets off a shot before McGee can wrestle his gun away. The thing is, McGee hastn't seen of heard from Mary Broll in three years, and it isn't like her to keep troubles to herself-if she's alive to tell them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When Tell and Orrin Sackett find a journal written by their father, Colburn Sackett, who disappeared in the Colorado mountains before the Civil War, they mount an expedition to retrace his route. He was part of a group of men searching for treasure, mined and buried by French soldiers in the 1790s. The Sacketts' arrival in New Orleans to make inquiries attracts the attention of both friends and enemies. Nativity Pettigrew, responsible for killing...
95) Black fire
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Sabotage aboard the Enterprise and Spock's investigation lead him into defiance of the Federation and a bizarre alliance with the Romulan and Klingon Empires against the blood thirsty Tomarii.
97) The dark wind
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Series
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 5
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. Annotation. A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in...
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(Lucy Maud),Emily novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
An orphaned girl is sent to live with extended family after her father's sudden death. Emily Starr is forced to leave her relaxed home for a stern environment. She struggles to adjust to her relatives and new classmates on Prince Edward Island.
100) The lonesome gods
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
A sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two womenḾiss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fires her ambitions for the future and Meghan, a willful young beautyV́erne grows to become a rugged adventurer, a man strong enough to embrace the awesome power of...