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1) Friction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
2) The help
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are are brought together by war and fate. Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all. When memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him, he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: He must find his old love and make amends. Haunted by the past and confused about the future, he turns to God seeking forgiveness and redemption.
7) Swan Song
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem—and a possible murder follow. Can Nantucket’s best locals save the day, and their way of life?
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by...
Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by...
8) Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2003
Language
English
Description
A novel of Regency England which centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
As Carolyn MacKenzie unravels the mystery behind her brother's disappearance...
11) Caught
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Reporter Wendy Tynes has made it her mission to bring down sexual prediators on national television, but she begins to doubt her instincts after exposing social worker Dan Mercer until she discovers a link between Mercer and Haley McWaid, a seventeen-year-old girl from suburban New Jersey who has been missing for three months.
12) Hide
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
You have good reason to be afraid. . . .
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. There’s no place to run. . . . Bobby’s only lead is...
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. There’s no place to run. . . . Bobby’s only lead is...
14) A painted house
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...
Author
Series
Ember volume 1st
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
17) High five
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Find out why Stephanie Plum's racy, in-your-face New Jersey adventures are attracting a growing number of fans. Join America's favorite bounty hunter as she scrambles to make an honest living, keep her family happy, and find true love. Desperate for money, Stephanie is trying to apprehend a surly "little person" when a call from her mother pulls her back to the Burg. Seventy-two-year-old Uncle Fred is missing, and the family is counting on Stephanie...
18) Super Fly Guy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fly Guy visits the school cafeteria and gets the lunch lady fired.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 6
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Shelby MacIntyre discovers that opposites really do attract when, while visiting Virgin River, she meets Luke Riordan, a thirty-eight-year-old jaded former Blackhawk pilot who is afraid of commitment.