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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago. They see a chance for huge...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
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Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
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Series
Faith Herbert Origin Story volume 1
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...
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Palmer Eldritch returns from a distant galaxy with a new drug called Chew-Z, which claims to deliver eternal life. Barney Mayerson confronts questions of loyalty, judgement and love, as well as his own insecurities about his ex-wife. His addictive personality thrusts him in the middle of a mystery as to the true nature of Chew-Z and what it means for the future of the galaxy. Palmer Eldritch is omnipresent throughout the novel as the reader tries...
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
A medical thriller featuring Dr. Edward Armstrong, a researcher developing an anti-depressant drug. Under pressure from his backers to complete the research, he experiments on himself with disastrous effects. But with millions of dollars at stake, the backers hush up the results and when Armstrong's sweetheart, Kimberly Stewart, decides to blow the whistle, she puts both their lives in jeopardy. By the author of Fatal Cure.
9) Blood colony
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"There's a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, its main ingredient is blood--the blood of immortals. A small but powerful underground railroad of immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS epidemic. But the Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the Vatican. And the only immortal born with the Living Blood is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy...
10) Autonomous
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic...
11) The obsession
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Series
Obsession volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic." When he sees Delilah...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness...
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Publisher
Atria Books, and colophon, are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power ever since Argentina's development of "psychopigments knocked Uncle Sam out of the ring in the 1980s. Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact. They have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs; black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (for terror) to...
14) The inn
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The seclusion of the Inn at Gloucester suits former Boston police detective, Bill Robinson. Robinson runs the Inn and doesn't ask any questions, until Mitchell Cline arrives bringing drugs and violence to the peaceful inn.
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