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"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand -- to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The client came to Kinsey Millhone with an easy job — just deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid. A little odd, and a little too easy, but Kinsey took Alvin Limardo's retainer check anyway. It turned out to be as phony as he was. In real life, his name was John Daggett, a chronic drunk with a record as long as your arm and a reputation for sleazy deals. But he wasn't...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 3
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English
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2 cassettes/ 3 hours
Read by Judy Kaye
Now available on CD!
After a near-fatal car accident, a young man asks Kinsey to protect him. When he is promptly murdered, Kinsey vows to find the killer.
Read by Judy Kaye
Now available on CD!
After a near-fatal car accident, a young man asks Kinsey to protect him. When he is promptly murdered, Kinsey vows to find the killer.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 3
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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2024.
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English
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"Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest...
67) Vanishing point
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
68) Into the night
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Troubleshooters volume 5
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English
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White House staffer Joan DaCosta finds herself drawn to her Navy SEAL liason, Lt. Mike Muldoon. As tension mounts between them, a far more sinister danger is lurking. Now, to protect their commander in chief, Joan and Muldoon must not only risk their hearts, but their very lives.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.
70) Frankly in love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
72) Dead on the vine
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"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...
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2016.
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Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
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Kathryn Dance novels volume 4
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English
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A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons,...
76) Sleep no more
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Lost night files volume 1
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English
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"Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers co-host a podcast, The Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases. After receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum when she's stopped by the women's mysterious tipster. Ambrose Drake is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation, and the while townsfolk...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
78) Ransom River
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on a high profile murder case in her hometown of Ransom River, California. It's a place she vowed never to visit again after leaving behind its surfeit of regret and misfortune and the specter of a troubled past that threatened to distrub the town's peaceful facade. While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of the trial, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life{u2014}the fissures in her parents{u2019}...
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