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41) Twenty wishes
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Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her complete her list--with unexpected results.
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In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America, a tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy.
44) Black Hills
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A summer at his grandparents' South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan's idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he's discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isn't as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying...
45) Blood ties
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A vicious killer is luring the agents of an elite FBI Special Crimes Unit into a deadly trap--but will he destroy the team before its members can stop him?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
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When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.
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Ivory, a rare Carpathian female, has been protected by her brothers for most of her life. But once she frees the mage Razvan from his prison cave, they must flee together, enemies of Carpathian hunters as well as vampires. Ivory senses that Razvan is more than he appears to be, and she vows to go against the entire Carpathian race to help him, risking both their lives in order to save their love.
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A deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for Jean Lafitte's hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Penn Cage. Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
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The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves' code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family, no wife, and no children. We are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream, until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside.
50) Kindred in death
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In Death series volume 29
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The NYPSD's recently promoted captain returns home from a much-needed holiday only to discover his daughter, Deena, has been brutally murdered. The crime scene is so horrific that even New York's toughest cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, struggles to stomach the carnage. Determined to bring Deena's killer to justice, Dallas takes to the streets, only to find that the culprit is unmatchably clever.
51) Nightwalker
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Jessy Sparhawk has seen firsthand how gambling can ruin people's lives. One night, desperate for money, she places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she's collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the craps table.
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In the sixth installment of the Society series, Lucinda Bromley has had an unusually large number of lovers. On the other hand, whenever she grows tired of a lover, she poisons them. However, Lucinda is about to fall for a man who uses psychic powers to solve crimes, putting her murder spree in serious jeopardy.
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Amarylis Coltraine had recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, disarmed, and killed with her own weapon, for Eve Dallas, the victim isn't just one of us.
54) Silksinger
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p2009
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Whisper Silksinger is no warrior; she's a weaver of flying carpets. But when devils attack her isolated island home, she must flee alone with nothing but a copper tea kettle and the ember that smolders inside it. That ember is none other than the Azazel, one of the seven Djinn who made the world, and it falls to Whisper to keep him safe. Pursued by devils, she joins a dragonfly caravan and meets Hirik, a mysterious faerie mercenary with an ancient...
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Ella Varner shows up at the office of Jack Travis, a rich, tough Houston businessman, with a baby in her arms, claiming he is the father. Apparently, her sister gave birth to the baby and left it with Ella to take care of. After doing some investigating, Ella found Jack and wants him to take a paternity test to see if the baby is his.
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Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
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Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a super-stressed chocolate magnate who takes the knitting class after his doctor suggests it, and a young woman who is trying to quit obsessing about a broken engagement....
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Brilliance Audio
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p2009
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When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn't expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she's the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in Dreamland.
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Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins. Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson.
60) Big Jack
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Brilliance Audio
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[2010]
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas attempts to track down the missing diamonds from a decades-old heist and stop the danger and death that have surrounded the jewels for years.
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