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1) Hot blooded
Author
Language
English
Description
Against the sultry backdrop of New Orleans, Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya take on their first case together in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson's chilling novel of a serial killer's obsessive vengeance...
As host of New Orleans' radio talk show Midnight Confessions, Dr. Samantha Leeds is a trusted confidante to all kinds of troubled souls. But the call that comes to her own home one night is different—menacing,
...Author
Series
Elmwood Springs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The time is 1946, the town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
Author
Language
English
Description
In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Joe was a hockey player and Kristi a cheerleader in high school, now Joe works in the local grocery store. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe's is tame--or at least that's how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they'll open their...
10) Begin again
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
College freshman Andie is used to fixing other people's problems, but when her seemingly perfect plan for her future starts to crumble, Andie struggles to fix them and learns that the best-laid plans are not necessarily the right one.
Andie Rose has a plan: transfer from community college to competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and become an iconic self-help figure. Her plans go off the rails as soon as she arrives, and soon they're...
12) Radio girls
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio...and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job as a secretary at the upstart British Broadcasting Corporation, whose use of radio--still new, strange, and electrifying--is captivating the nation. But the...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge romance volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After Brady Collins' ex-wife dies, he receives devastating news--his nine-month-old son Sam isn't his son at all. And Sam's wealthy maternal grandparents want custody of the child. Brady knows he's in for the fight of his life. But regardless of what any blood test says, Sam is his son, and Brady will go to any lengths to keep him. Brady's attorney tips him off that one major life change would virtually assure him of winning guardianship of baby...
16) Murder off mike
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
18) Riding gain
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
19) El lector
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When factory workers clash with the cigar company owners, threatening the jobs of her grandfather and the other lectores--those who read to the Spanish-speaking workers--thirteen-year-old Bella looks to the radio to keep the tradition going.