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"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With small town New Bison's Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia's legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan's must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews. There's another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the...
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Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Minerva Keen forms a detective club to uncover who is poisoning residents of her storied Chicago apartment building, knowing that any one of her neighbors could be the poisoner--or the next victim"--
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 5
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Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 4
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Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 3
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Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"After losing everything, Katie Wilk is starting life over in Columbia, Minnesota, with a new career--giving up cryptanalysis in favor of teaching school--and a canine companion, Maverick, a black Labrador retriever. But on one of their first outings, Katie and Maverick discover a dead body in a nearby marshland. Doctor Pete Erickson enters her life. As the county coroner, he's one of the first on the scene; as the doctor that day in the ER, he's...
10) Straight river
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BookLocker.com, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Straight river, the prequel to the award-winning thriller Castle danger, is a mystery-thriller set during the emotional and financial aftermath of the Great Recession. After his estranged father dies in a farming accident, professional musician Matt Lanier returns to his hometown of Straight River, Minnesota. While he's settling his father's estate, an old family friend and neighbor asks Matt for help. Her husband's recent death was ruled a suicide....
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Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
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English
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Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
12) The teacher
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
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"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
14) Iceberg
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
15) A troubling tail
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The charming town of Chilson, Michigan, is beautiful in the spring, and the bookmobile is delivering great reads far and wide on one of the first warm days of the year. But a chill sweeps through when they discover that one of their favorite patrons, the owner of Henika's Candy Emporium, has been found murdered. Although Minnie can't understand who could have had a motive to murder such a kind man, she decides that the sticky problem isn't hers to...
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Katie’s spring break plans for a romantic getaway with Pete fall apart, she skips a chance to go skiing with her dad and the sister she’s very recently met, and finds herself and Maverick in the company of friends and her students at The White Star Inn in New Prague, Minnesota. Although they are traveling to attend the memorial service for a student’s mother, there will also be salon treatments, shopping, and sightseeing. But, from the...
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Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Katie Wilk is still reeling from astounding news about her late husband’s history than she’d discovered before his shockingly sudden death. She’s looking forward to getting back to her students now that winter break is over, taking her mind off the difficulties of the past eighteen months. But then ZaZa Lavigne shows up, the woman who can push all of Katie’s buttons, and guess what-she’ll be teaching in Katie’s department! However, Katie’s...
19) Invisible son
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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After spending six months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.
Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on. Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming...
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Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. Now Emma's father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one she can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once for Venice with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present-day crime, she must first unravel a centuries-old puzzle. But the past does not...
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