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""A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery ... Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as...
82) The waterfall
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English
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Get swept up in the heart-pounding action and romance of this classic novel by New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers.
Three years after the sudden death of her husband, Lucy Blacker Swift has finally got things under control. Leaving behind the cutthroat world of Washington, Lucy and her two children move to a Vermont farmhouse and start to rebuild their lives. But a string of unexplained events-late-night hang-ups, a bullet through a window-threatens...
83) Must love dukes
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Series
Tricks of the Ton volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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When a stranger makes off with her father's pocket watch, Lily decides to steal it back and matches wits with Devon Grey, Duke of Thornwood, who is determined to expose her as a common thief until she steals his heart.
84) Rise
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Series
Rule volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, but their pasts continue to haunt them as their blackmailer threatens everyone and everything they hold dear"--
86) When I kill you
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Series
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Raven Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. Then Marcia Beekland enters her life, and all her plans go out the window."--Publisher's description.
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Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been a recruited asset of the CIA, stealing Kremlin secrets for her CIA handler Nate Nash for over seven years. Their forbidden and tumultuous love affair continues, mortally dangerous for them both, but irresistible. In Washington, a newly-installed US administration is selecting its Cabinet members. Dominika hears a whisper of a closely-held Kremlin operation to place a mole inside a...
88) One house over
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A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Carson Phillips is at the bottom of the food chain in a high school filled with people he hates, stuck living with his depressed single mother in a small-minded town at the corner of nothing and nowhere. He has just one goal: escape to Northwestern University and a career as a hard-hitting journalist. His guidance counselor tells him that he needs to bolster his application by creating a literary magazine. Which means he needs submissions. From other...
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2020.
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English
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"They are forty-something, successful, financially set, and done with trying to find "perfect" husbands. So why can't Hahna, Twila, and Kimberly have men strictly for friendship, companionship, and especially mind-blowing sex? Their solution: be sugar mamas to gorgeous young studs who promise the best of having it all. But the ladies soon find that real lust and no strings is way more complicated than they thought. All-business and all about the money,...
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing"--
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Jackson Falls volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Byron Robidoux's dreams are right in front of him for the taking. Then his close friend, and first love, Zoe Hammond comes back into his life. They never counted on their friendship igniting into something more. But when Zoe's daughter is targeted, Byron will do anything to protect them, even sacrifice his dreams for a chance at his first love.
93) Hidden pieces
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After saving a man's life, Embry Woods, seventeen, is considered a hero but someone begins blackmailing her for causing his near-death, forcing her to make choices that endanger her loved ones.
95) Cold calls
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Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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While on suspension, Shelly, Eric, and Fatima, who have nothing else in common, try to identify and stop the person who blackmailed each of them by phone to perform very specific acts of bullying at their high schools.
96) The séance
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer. Sell the Hall unseen burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will but never live there…Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to...
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Mortimer Angel mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
08/06/2019
Language
English
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Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden-disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office-vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull-stripped clean and white-is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs to Lucy Landry, PI Mortimer Angel's gorgeous young assistant now working with him on a seemingly unrelated embezzlement...
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Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When TJ cheats on a history test and gets chosen to represent his school in a contest, he feels horribly guilty--worse, he finds himself being blackmailed for money by one of his classmates.
99) Paperback Jack
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English
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"Paperback Jack is a brand new historical thriller from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers. 1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering...
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Detective Varg novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no matter how complex. So when Ulf is approached by the girlfriend...