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2) Roses
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Language
English
Description
Having not married in spite of their true feelings, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick struggle with deceit, secrets, and tragedies that challenge their children and grandchildren in their small east Texas community.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury: a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. The son of Hollywood royalty, Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren, it's the only thing he truly loves. But then Andy's world...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Pursuing a big story in anticipation of his imminent layoff, Los Angeles reporter Jack McEvoy investigates the murder confession of a teen drug dealer and realizes that the youth may be innocent, a discovery that pits him against a killer operating below police radar.
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Language
English
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It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced: the founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play is found decapitated in his locked, private playroom. And now Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death...
7) Rock bottom
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--an indoor/outdoor caf�e that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings...
8) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue. For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House, a secluded...
12) Ghost virus
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel of Tooting Police investigate a rash of violent crimes involving ordinary Londoners, they suspect supernatural foces are at work and must figure out how to defeat a ghost virus.
14) The sugar season: a year in the life of maple syrup--and one family's quest for the sweetest harvest
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a year in a New England family's life as they harvest their maple syrup crop, describing the agricultural craft, including the biology of the trees, how a syrup grade is assigned, and the impact of climate change on the industry.
16) Steve Jobs
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
Author
Publisher
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Contents: Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1860--Gleanings from F.W. Beers' 1865 Atlas of the oil region of Pennsylvania -- Petroleum mining and horiztonal wells -- Field trip #1 Oil region of Titusville, Pleasantville, Tidioute, and Tionesta -- Field trip #2 Some threads of history along Oil Creek Valley, Titusville to Wildcat Hollow -- Wildcat Hollow, historical notes -- Some geological aspects of the Oil Creek Valley Region -- The Venango portable...