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1) Mazie
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Lexile Measure
940L
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Leaping at a chance for a Broadway audition, a teen from 1950s Nebraska endures brutal but thrilling auditions, before dwindling resources and a challenge to her personal beliefs force her to reevaluate her priorities.
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Lexile Measure
670L
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The Witness for the Prosecution 1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily?s dedicated housekeeper Janet Mackenzie stands by in court. Leonard however,...
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When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison-pen letters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations. But Hamish fears that they might lead to something deadly. His instincts prove correct when the town's postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a poison-pen letter at her feet. Though it appears to be a suicide, Hamish suspects something more sinister. Attempting to trace the letters, the last thing
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Discworld volume 33
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Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job?
By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered...
8) Prophet
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Lexile Measure
790L
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Anchorman John Barrett, in the middle of a newsroom conflict over the question of abortion, finds his life unraveling after a series of incidents, including the supposedly accidental death of his deeply religious father, make him reevaluate his lifestyle and his beliefs.
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Harry Bosch volume 3, 4, 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Summary
Three novels starring LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch.
10) Killer Run
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Series
Tourist trap mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2015
Summary
The quick meet the dead during a small-town California charity race in this cozy mystery by the New York Timesbestselling author.
As the owner of South Cove, California's most beloved bookstore café, Jill Gardner is more known for her sit-down-and-read than her get-up-and-go. Yet she's been talked into sponsoring a 5k charity race along the beautiful California coast. Jill is happy to hit the ground running in support...
As the owner of South Cove, California's most beloved bookstore café, Jill Gardner is more known for her sit-down-and-read than her get-up-and-go. Yet she's been talked into sponsoring a 5k charity race along the beautiful California coast. Jill is happy to hit the ground running in support...
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Lexile Measure
1340L
Summary
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from...
12) Outlander
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Outlander novels volume 1
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Absorbing and heartwarming, this first novel lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland, quickening both with realistic characters and a feisty, likable heroine. English nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall and husband Frank take a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands in 1945. When Claire touches a cleft stone in an ancient henge, she's somehow transported to 1743. She encounters Frank's evil ancestor, British captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall,...
13) Maze of bones
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Series
39 clues volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Rick Riordan's newest mystery centers around the Cahills - the most powerful family the world has ever known. The source of its power is a mystery that can only be unraveled by assembling 39 clues that have been hidden around the world throughout history.
14) Huckleberry Hill
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Series
Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill volume 1
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With their thirteen children grown, Anna and Felty Helmuth are ready for their next adventure - trying their hands at matchmaking. Huckleberry Hill just might turn out to be the most romantic spot in Wisconsin. Moses Zimmerman knew his grandparents couldn't resist trying to find him a wife. But he never expected it would be a woman tall enough to look him in the eye, and honest enough to make him question a promise holding him to his past.
15) Love After All
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Pub. Date
2015
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"High school math teacher Chelsea Gardner has the perfect plan. She's tired of dating all the wrong men, and after years of frustration, she's developed a foolproof list of requirements for finding "The One." Bar owner Sebastian "Bash" Palmer finds Chelsea beautiful, smart and fun, but he thinks her list is ridiculous and unnecessary. Intent on proving that Chelsea is looking for love in all the wrong ways, he offers to help her find the "perfect"...
16) Alaska justice
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Pub. Date
2009
Summary
Trooper Jack Blake pilots bush planes, mushes dog teams, and climbs on snowshoes to catch the bad guy. With horrible weather, blood-thirsty brizzly bears, politics and plane crashes, his job to find real justice is hard enough. Then Blake learns that one particularly powerful guy is making it his job to kill him wih the unlimited resources of his wealth and power.
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Pub. Date
2004, c1996
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"Sara Crewe, ten years old, leads a delightful life. Her father, a British officer, provides her with all the comfort his wealth and charm allow. When he dies, a cold-hearted schoolmistress turns Sara into a drudge. How does she cope? Sara is unquenchable. Her father taught her that ever girl is a princess, rich or poor. That gift - along with grace, spirit and imagination - give her serenity and puts the fall from riches to rags in perspective."--Container....
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Nancy Bell's popular mystery series combines colorful characters, a small-town setting, down-home Texas humor- and one of the most wildly misnamed sleuths in the genre. A diminutive, shrewd grandmother, "Biggie" Weatherford is an amateur detective and professional collector of gossip. In Biggie and the Devil Diet, she investigates a murder at a weight-loss spa for wealthy teenagers.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Fifteen years later, Quinn Southerland still hadn't forgiven Tess Claybourne for treating him like the dirt beneath her boots. But the widowed nurse tending his ailing mother was a world away from the spoiled homecoming queen Quinn had known. Yet she was just as achingly beautiful, still arousing the old bittersweet longing for something he could never have. Or could he? That fierce attraction still burned between them. This could be their second...
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Nicci chronicles volume 2
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The formidable sorceress Nicci and her companions-the newly powerless Nathan and the youthful Bannon-set out on another quest after driving ruthless Norukai slavers out of Renda Bay. Their mission: restore Nathan's magic and, for Nicci, save the world. Guided by the witch-woman Red''s mysterious prophecy, the trio makes their way south of Kol Adair towards a wondrous city shrouded behind time, Ildakar. But the grotesque omens on their path to Nathan's...