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Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
After witnessing something shocking, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Movie tie-in edition.
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief...
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant...
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, after taking on a foreclosure case, defense attorney Mickey Haller fights to prove his client’s innocence—but first he must follow a trail of black market evidence to its sinister end. Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
8) The client
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
" ... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother ... chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America."--Colophon
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
10) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Janet Evanovich is the hottest author in America, and her Stephanie Plum novels have taken the nation by storm!
#1 New York Times
#1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly
She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder. A BOOK -OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB selection. Suzanne Berne is the author of three novels, the first of which, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won great Britain's Orange Prize....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young woman, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time, is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation? What happens when she is placed under police protection, forced to give up her identity and move to another part of the country, at least until the killer can be positively identified and apprehended? What happens when in her new life she meets the perfect man, only she can't risk falling in love...
14) Dangerous lies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a murder, high school senior Stella Gordon is sent to Nebraska for her own safety where she chafes at her protection, but when she meets Chet Falconer it becomes harder for her to keep her guard up, and soon she has to deal with the real threat to her life as her enemies are actually closer than she thinks.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After the murder of his father, who has been hiding under the Witness Protection Program, Pete finds himself the target of sinister men who seem to think he knows where a large sum of money is hidden.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection program or, as it's officially called, the Witness Security Program? Yeah, the WITSEC folks definitely don't want me talking to you. But I don't care. I have to tell someone. If I don't, you'll never know how completely wrong things can...
17) What we saw
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
18) On the edge
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maddie Diaz never should have taken that shortcut through the park. If she hadn't, she wouldn't have seen two members of the Reyes gang attacking a homeless man. Now, as the only witness, she knows there's a target on her back. But when the Reyes jump her on the street, Maddie is protected by a second gang and their secretive leader, Lobo, who is determined to take down the Reyes himself. Lobo is mysterious and passionate, and Maddie begins to fall...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
20) See Jane run
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.