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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Delivering books to the housebound residents of the Thumb Islands, just a short boat ride from the town of Briar Creek, library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderly brothers, Stewart and Peter Rosen. She enjoys visiting them in their treasure-filled, ramshackle Victorian on Star Island until she discovers that Peter has been killed and Stewart is missing. Now she's determined to solve a murder and find Stewart before he suffers his brother's...
62) Fancy dancer
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English
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"On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to...
63) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
64) Big Sky secrets
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Self-made tycoon Landry Sutton heads to Hangman Bend's Ranch to sell his land to his brother Zane. Though he's got cowboy in his blood, Landry plans to return to city life before the dust even settles on his boots. Of course, he didn't count on falling for Big Sky country ... or Ria Manning.
65) The witch's boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, the bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
67) Winter turning
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy to flee terrible crimes, Winter knows they both need a second chance to make things right. But that will happen only if he can find her. His new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won't let him make the dangerous journey alone...
68) Lost in the sun
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Keeping his deathbed promise to his father to free the small town of Mir Ali in Pakistan's Tribal Areas from oppressors, Hayat is forced to make terrible choices during a single morning when his brother, Sikander, and his troubled wife, Mina, are taken hostage by members of the Taliban.
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2022.
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English
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"Raquel Margarita Raquel Álvarez is hard-working, stays on the straight and narrow, and focuses on her future. She's got one goal--make that two goals: become a psychologist...and get Ares Hildago to look at her. Ares is the hot, rich, local playboy, and Raquel's been obsessed with him since she was eight-years-old--even though they've never spoken...After a chance encounter reveals her crush, Raquel decides it's time to stop hiding and make Ares...
72) As brave as you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
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Bannon brothers volume 2
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English
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When two of her friends, thousands of miles apart, are struck down, Kenzie, an expert trainer of combat dogs, turns to Link Bannon, a high-level intelligence officer, for help in finding the truth-- a dangerous mission that puts them in the path of an unhinged killer.
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A San Francisco judge orders a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before, but when a prison snitch turns up dead, with Lawrence as the only suspect, Leo Maxwell must team up with attorney Nina Schuyler to defend his father.
75) Broken open
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Hurley boys volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Beyond passion. And beyond their control...Five years ago, Tuesday Eastwood's life collapsed and left her devastated. After an empty, nomadic existence, she's finally pieced her life back together in the small Oregon town of Hood River. Now Tuesday has everything sorted out. Just so long as men are kept for sex, and only sex...Then she met him. Musician and rancher Ezra Hurley isn't the man of Tuesday's dreams. He's a verboten fantasy--a man tortured...
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Bannon brothers volume 3
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English
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Federal criminal investigator Deke Bannon is rugged and powerful and just as dangerous as his older brothers RJ and Linc. But ambitious Atlanta TV anchor Kelly Johns, who is tracking an explosive story behind a deadly international gang, may be more than his match.
78) Bonded
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Series
Cavanaugh brothers volume 4
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English
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"Ranch hand Blue Perez's once-simple life is spinning out of control. He's discovered he has three half-brothers, and they're not ready to accept his claim on the ranch. Also, Blue's girlfriend may have betrayed him in the worst way possible. And after one evening of drowning his sorrows at the bar, there's someone he can't get out of his mind, a woman who says she's carrying his child"--Page 4 of cover.
80) Inner harbor
Author
Series
Chesapeake Bay saga volume 3
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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