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Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction's most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds.
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[1989]
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The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state...
4) The fixer
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
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Set in Tsarist Russia during a period of virulent anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. At the outset, Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, he finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found dead in a cave, drained of nearly all his blood, the Jews are accused...
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""The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their...
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2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns...
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Pendergast novels volume 6
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c2005
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"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
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Andrew Z. Thomas novels volume 2
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[2005]
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In hiding for seven years after being framed for a series of horrific murders committed by his psychotic brother, Andrew Thomas must risk discovery when his former girlfriend, Karen Prescott, becomes part of a nightmarish new series of crimes.
10) Baggage
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c2002
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Inseparable throughout high school, Sophie and Daisy are best friends until Daisy is accused of murder, stages her own death, and escapes to Australia, where ten years later she is reunited accidentally with Sophie.
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Dragonback volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Falsely accused of stealing from the powerful corporation, Braxton Universis, orphaned fourteen-year-old Jack, accompanied by his "virtual" Uncle Virge, flees to a remote planet where he meets and develops a mutually beneficial relationship with the dragon warrior, Draycos.
13) Justice for none
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2004
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This book captures perfectly the Depression - era Midwest in which Gene Hackman was raised --- the grain silos, slaughterhouses, bars, barbershops, and newspaper offices of amall - town and city life. It also explores issues of race, class, truth, and the human consequeneces of war, with a vivid cast of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.
14) Death row
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 12
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[2003]
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Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered industrial chemist was charged with a staggeringly brutal crime: the torture and massacre of an entire suburban Tulsa family. Ben's deft defense against a lack of hard evidence and improper police procedure made an acquittal all but certain, until the prosecution's star witness, the lone survior of the slaughter, took the stand...