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Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest/Ballantine
Pub. Date
1987, c1985
Language
English
Description
The Devil is certainly at work in the dark streets of the slums of Victorian London-and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must stop a killer before he strikes again A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil's Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer's grizzly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The victims are stabbed and sexually mutilated. When Pitt recognizes one of the victims as...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Pitt's sister is charged with murder, she and her husband Thomas must work fast to clear her-and find the real killer As Inspector Thomas Pitt works to resolve the case of a dismembered woman, his womanizing brother-in-law, George March, Lord Ashworth, is poisoned with his morning coffee at the country estate of his cousins. The primary suspect? Charlotte's sister, Emily, the murdered man's wife and Pitt's sister-in-law. Charlotte...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic / Graphix
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to everyone in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this bad-luck charm, it says. OR ELSE. Mary Anne has to follow the note's instructions. But who sent the charm? And why did they...
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest/Ballantine
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
A three-year-old unsolved murder could prove fatal for Thomas Pitt-and his family When Thomas Pitt is required to reopen an unsolved murder case in exclusive Hanover Close, he doesn't know how dangerous it will be for his family-and himself. Three years before, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered. Pitt believes a mysterious woman may hold the key to the York's death, and his suspicion deepens when a York...
25) Bethlehem road
Author
Publisher
Fawcett/Ballantine
Pub. Date
1991, c1990
Language
English
Description
When Members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge, Thomas and Charlotte Pit must sift through the many suspects to find the killer-before he strikes again In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt thinks the motive might have been personal . . ....
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond-a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
29) Voyager
Author
Series
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Supt. Pitt of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three apparently disparate victims: a band leader, a naval officer and a bus conductor. All three were beheaded. The case leaves him stumped, but fortunately there is his wife.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
32) Killing floor
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove/Berkley
Pub. Date
2012, 1998, c1997
Language
English
Description
"Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell."
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to 1743 Scotland, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for a young soldier, James Fraser.
34) 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...
36) Tripwire
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. He’s got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous...
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. He’s got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous...
37) Chosen prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing...
38) Echo burning
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 5
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a young woman seeking protection for herself and her little girl from her monstrous husband, due to be released from jail, and his horrible family.
39) Open season
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
oe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden--especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die...