Sandra Burr
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 42
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A boy sees a man commit a murder, then later that day the murderer calls on his mother with flowers. So begins the tense tale of a con man exploiting a love-starved woman, with an alcoholic husband and three children, and a boy who keeps a murder secret to avoid ruining his mother's happiness. The setting is a small town in Vermont, the time the 1960s.
42) Running hot
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Ex-cop Luther Malone, member of the secretive paranormal Arcane Society, will be working with Grace Renquist, who has no field experience but has been hired as an aura-reader in the quest for a murder suspect. Grace isn't expecting much from Malone, who walks with a cane and isn't so good with a gun. But before they reach their hotel in Maui, Grace and Luther feel the electric charge between them. But they need to remain vigilant. Rogue sensitives...
43) Heaven and earth
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Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
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Mia, the proprietor of the island's small book store and the local witch, discovers the key to her own destiny, in a novel which captures the lives, loves, and fortunes of three young women enmeshed in the legends, romance, and magic of a mysterious island of the Massachusetts coast.
44) Face the fire
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Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 3
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When Sam Logan, an old flame, returns to the island, Mia struggles to ignore the passionate bond between them, even as a centuries-old curse draws them together.
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"Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, Kate Powell treasured her life at Templeton House...and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo's beauty and Laura's elegance, she knew she had something they would never possess--a shrewd head for business. Driven by ambition, Kate measured her life's success with each soaring promotion. But now, faced with professional impropriety, Kate is forced to look...
46) River's end
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A romance between a woman employed as a rain forest guide on the Olympic Peninsula and a reporter investigating her mother's murder. The heroine is Olivia whose father is in jail for killing her mother and she wants no reminders of the horror she saw as a child. But reporter Noah Brady is persistent, having been asked by Olivia's father to clear his name, and his persistence leads to justice for one and love with the other. By the author of The Reef....
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Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love....
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Johanna Lindsey's old Western romance features Casey Straton, who leaves her home in Texas to prove to her parents that she's capable of running her late grandfather's ranch. Damien Rutledge III journeys west as well to find the man who murdered his father. When Damien's stagecoach is ambushed, young Casey Straton rescues him from harm.
49) Hemlock Bay
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FBI agents Dillon and Lacey (Sherlock) Savich rescue two boys kidnapped from Maryland and then rush off to California to save Dillon's sister from a greedy art collector.
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Your service team may represent the first, last, or only interaction point between your customers and your company. Your front-line service professionals make or break countless opportunities, leads, sales, and relationships every day. Completely revised and updated to meet the challenges of a new service landscape, the second edition of Customer Service Training 101 presents proven techniques for creating unforgettable customer experiences. The book...
51) Slipknot
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When Jane Bunker trades in her career as a big-city homicide detective for a new job as a marine insurance investigator in Green Haven, Maine, she thinks that a fresh start in this sleepy seaside town will finally allow her the peace and quiet that she's been craving. But when the town drunk washes up on shore with the back of his head smashed it, Jane realizes that Green Haven is not the quaint sanctuary she'd thought it was.
52) Daring to dream
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Dream trilogy volume 1
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Margo, the daughter of the Templeton's stern Irish housekeeper, has been treated like one of the family. And deep down, she knew that money could not buy her mother's acceptance.
53) Honest illusions
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Lovely magician-jewel thief Roxy partners with the dashing escape artist Luke to relieve the rich of their valuables.
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Linda Breland, a single mother tired of living hand-to-mouth in New Jersey, decides to move herself and her two teenage daughters to her distant hometown of Mount Pleasant, S.C., where her sister, Mimi, still lives. Linda's straight-shooting style impresses local restauranteur Brad Jackson, who hires her to manage his restaurant; hints of a future romance are about as subtle as a kitchen fire. Frank easily, breezily shifts among her multiple first-person...
55) Blind side
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Six-year-old Sam Kettering was abducted and taken to eastern Tennessee, where he managed to escape. His father, a former FBI agent, joins Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich in an investigation of why the kidnappers were so determined to take this one little boy
57) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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The feared Blue Lady, Kitiara, sets in motion a plot that will take three Solamnic knights to Icereach in search of a dragon orb, and her rival Laurana begins a journey toward destiny when she and Sturm, Flint, and Tasslehoff join the knights in their perilous quest. But it is Kitiara who faces the crucial test. She vows to spend the night in the most feared place on Krynn--Dargaard Keep. No one who ventures into that dread place ever returns....
59) Margin of Error
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c1997
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A movie star comes to Miami-and mayhem ensues-in this crime thriller by an Edgar Award finalist.
Crime reporter Britt Montero had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is tormenting her. So when a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom, hoping to do research for the character he portrays, the seemingly cushy job is given to Britt in the hope that it will help her recover from her traumatic experience. But the assignment...
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As the Dragon Highlords vie for the Crown of Power in the Temple of the Dark Queen, Black Robe wizard Raistlin Majere wages his own desperate battle against Takhisis in the dungeons below and meets again the brother he betrayed. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.