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1) Private
Author
Series
Private novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's elite LA detective agency and along with it such cases as an NFL gambling scandal, 18 unsolved schoolgirl slayings and the murder of his best-friend's wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
California private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to solve a decades-old cold case in this “undeniably entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton.
Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the...
Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the...
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women' Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. Lindsay escapes to the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay, but the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before--an...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
4 cassettes / 4 hours
Read by Judy Kaye
"There are few writers able to sustain the solid mixture of detection, narrative energy and cultural observations that one finds in Grafton." — Washington Post Book World
"M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction,...
Read by Judy Kaye
"There are few writers able to sustain the solid mixture of detection, narrative energy and cultural observations that one finds in Grafton." — Washington Post Book World
"M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Judy Kaye
Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life.
"L" is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call...
Read by Judy Kaye
Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life.
"L" is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call...
8) Cannery Row
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe-and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Varsity Tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before-before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.As Kirkus said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John...
12) 10th anniversary
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl is badly injured left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While the police are investigating Jack, the mob strong-arms him into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and the beautiful manager of a luxury hotel chain persuades him to quietly investigate a spree of murders...
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the L.A. Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar -- and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
17) The wayward bus
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1947
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can't wait for 'H' ."
—Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan
Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con...
—Louise Bernikow, Cosmopolitan
Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped.
20) 14th deadly sin
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 14
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club risk their lives to save the city -- and each other.With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact, things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club (for a change) as they gather to celebrate San Francisco medical examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But...