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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly, leaving his wife, brother, and young son to deal with his sudden death.
3) Exit point
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Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving he wakes up to find he has been involved in a senseless car accident and is dead. With the help of his guide, Wade, and the spirit of his grandmother, he realizes he has taken the wrong exit-he wasn't meant to die. His life had a purpose-to save his sister-but he took the easy way out and he failed. Now, before he can rest in peace, he has to try and save his sister from a...
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Margo Rabb's critically acclaimed debut novel Cures for Heartbreak-a somber yet humorous depiction of love, loss, and new beginnings-has been reissued with a stunning new look. Less than two weeks after fifteen-year-old Mia Pearlman's mother is diagnosed with cancer, she dies, leaving Mia, her older sister, and their father to face this sudden and unfathomable loss. As Mia struggles to navigate her grief, she's also forced to examine the truth about...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
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WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)
Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory-of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events-and the man-that led her to the gallows.
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True Grit tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. A coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. That's when Mattie fearlessly heads out to avenge her father's blood, convincing one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal there is, to accompany her. But their plans run into an obstacle - namely, a Texas Ranger who is also investigating...
10) The river
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River novels volume 1
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Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure. But the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old holds him back. Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the treasures of The River and taking hold...
11) The sin eater
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c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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While living on his grandparent's farm in New Hampshire, Cole hears stories about a mysterious Sin Eater; these stories enable Cole to learn forgivenessand connect with his ancestors.
12) The Dry
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Aaron Falk novels volume 1
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After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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A "novel of psychological suspense about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets"--A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless...
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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
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Divorced Joy flees to Rain Valley when her sister, the same sister she found in bed with her husband appears. There she meets a widower and his son, but is having a hard time trusting again. A plan crash on Christmas Eve, forces her to make a choice, between her old life and new.
18) Bag of bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
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Author Michael Noonan falls into a four-year writer's block when his wife Johanna dies. The death of his wife pulls him into a mystery that brings him to Sara Laughs, the summerhouse that he shared with her. At Sara Laughs, he finds his house is haunted and he mysteriously regains his ability to write. Mike finds himself involved in a disturbing child custody tug-of-war that erupts into a terrifying battle between forces of good and evil, present...
19) Livid
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2022.
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"Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen’s body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case—an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...