Patricia Santomasso
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Rigel Harman's parents divorce, she and her sisters must move from the Alaskan wilderness to suburban Connecticut, and while she yearns to return in a year, she eventually realizes she must move forward.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Childhood friends Hannah, Maya, Blue, and Renee share a bond that feels more like family. Growing up, they had difficult home lives, and the summers they spent vacationing together in Montauk were the happiest memories they ever made, campfires on the beach, salt-spray hair and the effervescent excitement of the bright future ahead. Then, the summer after graduation, one terrible night changed everything. Twelve years have passed since that fateful...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern's husband is sure it's because of Astrid's famous kidnapping--and equally famous return--twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown. And when Astrid appears in Fern's recurring nightmare, one in which a girl reaches out to her, pleading,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After a tense argument, Alex drops everything to patch things up with his new wife, Mina. But Mina has vanished, leaving behind her wedding band and a string of secrets in her wake. Meanwhile, Layla is a mystery in Provincetown. When coworkers start asking questions about who she is and where she came from, Layla would love to answer them...but she can't. All she knows is someone has hurt her and now she has to disappear. As Alex searches for Mina,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears...
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Series
Language
English
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Tonight she feels like committing it.
Her live-in lover, Teddie, has rock-starred out and taken his show on the road.
Her mother is a pregnant hormonal weapon of mass destruction.
But, as the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, murder isn't in her job description.
SO DAMN LUCKY
Renowned magician, Dimitri Fortunoff apparently dies while...
Author
Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
10) Wanna get Lucky?
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
11) Lucky bastard
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Lucky O'Toole--head of customer relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip--thinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. Her employer is hosting a big car show, supposed to be a fun event with her honey. But Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in her carotid artery is found on the hood of the featured red Ferrari going around on the display. On the personal front, Lucky...
12) Lucky stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
13) Extra normal
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Greer is nothing special-at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity-which doesn't really count. But what...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Roda isn't afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands...So when Roda rescues an injured crow on the instruction of her secret pen pal, Anonymous...she's surprised to learn she's brought one of the so-called monsters home. Because her crowis really a shape-shifting boy named Ignis...Anonymous brought him and Roda together for a reason...Their perilous journey leads them into the mist and beyond, to a mysterious place called Nowhere....
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Series
Language
English
Description
This is your ideal guide to understanding other people, and helping them understand you. Body language is a critical component of good communication, and often conveys a bigger message than the words you say. This book teaches you how to interpret what people really mean by observing their posture, gestures, eye movements, and more, and holds up a mirror to give you a clear idea of how you're being interpreted yourself. This updated third edition...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rome, 1965: Aspiring actress Silvia Whitford arrives at Rome's famed Cinecittà Studios from Los Angeles, ready for her big break and a taste of la dolce vita. Instead, she learns that the movie in which she was cast has been canceled. Desperate for money, Silvia has only one choice: seek out the Italian aunt she has never met. Gabriella Conti lives in a crumbling castello on the edge of a volcanic lake. Silvia's mother refuses to explain the rift...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two days after arriving in Iceland for a promotional trip, Instagram influencer Alabama Wood goes missing. With no leads, the Icelandic police start their investigation by focusing on the two influencers seemingly closest to Alabama on the trip: Celeste Reed, Alabama's best friend of ten years, and Hollie Goodwin, fitness guru and Alabama's unwilling idol"--
18) Lucky score
Author
Series
Lucky O'Toole volume 9
Publisher
Chestnut Street Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
If Lucky O'Toole, chief problem solver for the Babylon, Vegas' primo Strip property, knows one thing--where money goes, trouble follows. So, when the NFL announces it's moving a team to Vegas, Lucky is left on the fence until the trouble she feared lands in her lap. Nolan Ponder, one of the key players in the negotiations to get the NFL to Sin City, staggers into the Babylon covered in blood and holding a knife. With the mountains of money and careers...
19) Lucky break
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Some People Never Catch a Break
For Lucky O'Toole it's a break from murder.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, Lucky is used to cracking heads and cracking jokes.
Besides, it's Christmas.
But even Santa can't give Lucky what she wishes for.
LUCKY BREAK
Holt Box, a beloved country singer on the comeback trail is killed in Lucky's lover, Jean-Charles's, kitchen.
Mr. Box dies in Lucky's father's arms.
Her...
20) Lucky enough
Author
Series
Publisher
Chestnut Street Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Home: A refuge. An escape. Where the heart is... After a high-body count trip through Europe, Lucky O'Toole, the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over the top Strip casino, is home and searching for peace, quiet and a quick fix for a broken heart. She should know better. Her father is failing in his fight to regain his health after taking a bullet to the chest. Her mother, Mona, is increasingly desperate to be "useful" which...