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Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
3) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When hit man Will Robie refuses to kill his target he has to go on the run from his own people, and, along the way, he meets up with a fourteen-year-old runaway who is in danger after her parents were murdered.
4) Hold tight
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Mike held his son's hand and told him to "hold tight," and he could feel the little hand dig into his but the crush got bigger and the little hand slipped from his and Mike felt that horrible panic, as if a wave hit them at the beach and it was washing his baby out with the tide. The separation lasted only a few seconds, ten at the most, but Mike would never forget the spike in his blood and the terror of those brief few moments. Tia and Mike Baye...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. Their mansion -- a historic seventeenth-century manor house transported stone by stone from Wales in 1848 -- has a hidden...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
8) Forever odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared andt he worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents, to communicate with the dead, to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body: he encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning and spirals into a vortex of terror.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant...
Author
Series
One of us is lying volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A member of the Bayview Crew disappears and everyone feels like they could be next, but the situation suddenly worsens when someone unexpectedly returns to Bayview.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
As Carolyn MacKenzie unravels the mystery behind her brother's disappearance...
12) Brother Odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From beloved mother-daughter duo Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark comes a holiday treat you won't want to miss. In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are all pitching in to prepare for the first (and many hope annual) Festival of Joy. The night before the festival begins, a group of employees at the local market learn that they have won $160 million in the lottery. One of their co-workers, Duncan, decided...
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 02
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game.
15) Gone girl
Author
Publisher
Crown/Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2014, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything, Pip has no choice to investigate. After all, Jamie Reynolds disappeared on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary...
17) Total control
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Total Danger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered...
18) Just one look
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in this shocking thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that...
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that...
Author
Series
Millennium volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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