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"Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, 'Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.' Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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When she discovers the body of her opinionated wedding planner face down in the pool, plus-sized P.I. and bride-to-be Savannah Reid must put her impending nuptials on hold to discover who else wanted this diva to make a hasty departure.
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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For seven hundred years, the souls of Romeo and Juliet have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.
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Sourcebooks
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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While spending the summer with her father and his new family in Santa Monica, Eden Munro faces many new experiences and finds herself falling for the one person she should not--her stepbrother, Tyler.
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Front desk volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Mia Tang's sixth grade year complicated by a hard-to-please teacher, financial setbacks at her parents' motel, and a looming immigration law that threatens to derail her entire life.
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English
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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Charlie Hood thrillers volume 5
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English
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For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the fifth audacious and white-hot novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker redefines the landscape of the thriller and shatters every expectation you ever had about the good guys and the bad. Now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.
When Benjamin Armenta, leader of the powerful Gulf...
When Benjamin Armenta, leader of the powerful Gulf...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Ex-cop Matt Stromsoe, working for a former colleague in his private security firm, has to protect a local television personality from a stalker. As he works on the case, he is led back to the man, now in prison, who killed his family.
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Room of White Fire, comes the explosive finale in his Charlie Hood series, which will bring together the destinies of three men caught between light and darkness, and now features an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood...
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence - controversial, difficult, but Edenic - is upended when the ambitious young developer...
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Paul Madriani novels volume 13
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English
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Madriani investigates a friend's wrongful manslaughter charge in the aftermath of a highly influential attorney's sudden death.
15) All my friends
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Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
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Silver Springs volume 5
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can't find a way to fix it.
Jada Brooks couldn't have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richardson back in high school. She couldn't have known his troubled brother would leave hers forever crippled. Or that she'd be forced to shun Maddox completely-only to discover she was carrying his child.
Although...
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Silver Springs volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"So much for forever. When Harper Devlin's rock star husband ditches her on his way to the top, she takes her two daughters to her sister's place in Silver Springs for the holidays, hoping family can heal her broken heart. But comfort comes in unexpected places when she crosses paths with local Tobias Richardson. The moment Tobias spots Harper, he recognizes a sadness he knows all too well. After spending thirteen years in prison paying for his regretful...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
20) Front desk
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Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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