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3) School days
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the verge of puberty, eleven-year-old Jordan March is sent to live with her spinster great-aunt, after her grandmother accuses her of having an incestuous relationship with her teenaged brother Ian, and stumbles upon a long-buried secret about her family's enigmatic past.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
347 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings us this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.
9) The Assassin
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.
11) Every now & then
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who still grieves his father's death on September 11, concentrates on fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the worst fire season in California history sends him in pursuit of environmental terrorists.
12) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
667 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
13) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Worrying about their sixteen-year-old son Adam in the wake of a friend's suicide, Tia and Mike Baye install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes Adam may have been involved.
16) Rough weather
Author
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. Driven and haunted, they forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father's business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath Depression and drought."--back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his estranged daughter's life is taken by a serial killer, who killed six other young women by breaking their bones and leaving them to die, intelligence officer Ryan Evans inadvertently becomes a suspect in the murders of all seven girls.