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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon, the son of another astronaut.
Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars. This means leaving Brooklyn-- and Cal's career plans as an aspiring journalist--...
2) Rage factor
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Chris Rogers' novels starring no-nonsense bounty hunter Dixie Flanagan get high marks from fans. Dixie can't believe a jury has acquitted serial rapist Lawrence Coombs. But when a group of women calling themselves the Avenging Angels attacks Coombs, Dixie's implicated-and that's just the start of her troubles.
4) Half a heart
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Description
An unforgettable novel about race and motherhood from the bestselling author of Before and After
Once a Civil Rights activist, Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), Miriam's biracial daughter born of her passionate affair a generation ago with Eljay, a brilliant black...
6) The chase
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Kariss' dream of being a crime writer causes her to look at the cold case of a young child found in the woods starved to death, but after enlisting the help of FBI Agent Tigo Harris, she and Tigo find themselves in a dangerous situation as they try to solve the crime.
7) Double Cross
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"FBI agent Laurel Evertson's investigation into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to Morton Wilmington, a felon she arrested five years ago on her first undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Wilmington--and what she sacrificed to put him away--he is now her best lead. Houston Police Officer Daniel Hilton fears his grandparents may be the scammers' next...
8) Heather
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
When the mayor of Houston is shot, the Debutantes solve the case. To remain anonymous, they leave the perfume laden evidence at the newspaper, along with a long stemmed rose.
10) Good as gone
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She...
11) High treason
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When Saudi Prince Omar bin Talal visits Houston to seek cancer treatment for his mother, an attempt on his life puts all agencies on high alert. FBI Special Agent Kord Davidson is the lead on the prince's protective detail because of their long-standing friendship, but he's surprised--and none too happy--when the CIA brings one of their operatives, Monica Alden, in on the task force after the assassination attempt.
12) Heroes proved
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Series
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
13) Deep extraction
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Oil and gas magnate Nathan Moore's killer used Moore's pacemaker as a seemingly perfect means of execution. And a bombing at one of Nathan's oil rigs days earlier indicates his death could be part of a bigger conspiracy. Special Agent Tori Templeton's first order of business is separating the personal from the professional: the victim's wife, her best friend, is one of the FBI's prime suspects. With the newest member of the task force, recently reinstated...
14) Brittan
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Award winning author Debra White Smith (more than 1 million books in print) wraps up her exciting mystery-romance trilogy. The Debutantes are three southern amateur sleuths whose faith, intelligence, and skills help them solve crimes ... and get out of trouble. When Brittan Shay meets Jose Herrera, she's found love for the first time. Even when she and her friends, Lorna and Heather, investigate a money laundering scheme and discover Jose's mother...
15) Magnolia city
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man...
Author
Series
Wolfe Security volume 2
Description
"Private investigator Kira Vance spends her days navigating the intricate labyrinth of Houston's legal world, and she knows all of its shadowy players and dark secrets. On a seemingly normal day, she's delivering a report to her top client when suddenly everything goes sideways and the meeting ends in a bloodbath. Twenty-four hours later, the police have no suspects but one thing is clear: a killer has Kira in his sights."--Publisher description.
17) Lorna
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Award winning author Debra White Smith (more than 1 million books in print) offers Book 2 in this contemporary mystery-romance trilogy featuring three bright amateur sleuths whose faith and skills manage to get them out of trouble. Attending a welcome-the-new-mayor party, Lorna Leigh counters boredom by escaping to the garden ... only to realize she's not alone. The dashing 30-something mayor is getting fresh air too. Sparks fly when she realizes...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
1964. Houston, Texas. Evie Barnes and all her friends are the sort who wear bold makeup, laugh too loud, and run around with boys. Most of all, they protect their own against...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
20) Lot: stories
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
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