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"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Deadly Sins seriescomes the story of a female FBI agent on the most dangerous mission of her career Rita Sullivan is the kind of FBI agent who plays by the book and always gets her man. Now, to bring a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scammer to justice, she must become a con artist herself. David Rathbone has walked away from an insider-trading rap in New York, and the Feds are out for blood. When the beautiful...
4) Florida
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Surveys the history, geography, economy, and people of Florida.
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Florida real estate agent Barbara Chessner is down on her luck, up several dress sizes, drowning herself in Bloody Marys-and, worst of all, has just been dumped by her husband for a blonde TV weatherperson. Tired of living the life of a woman in a "before" ad, Barbara stumbles outside in the midst of a thunderstorm and beseeches heaven to help her-unaware that someone diabolical might be listening . . . Barbara wakes up with golden hair (not her...
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Happiness Key volume 2
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Tracy Deloche, Rishi Kapur, Wanda Gray, Alice Brook, Olivia Symington, and newcomers Dana Turner and her daugher Lizzie live in the seaside cottages of Happiness Key, a rundown Florida development. Their friendship is put to the test when CJ, Tracy's ex-husband, unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he's released from prison pending a new trial. Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there's Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist...
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Happiness Key volume 3
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Five very different women--Tracy, a former socialite who has discovered that she's pregnant; Wanda, a waitress turned pie shop owner; Janya, a young Indian wife dealing with an arranged marriage; Alice, a widow raising her tween granddaughter; and Maggie, a former Miami cop--find love and friendship on the barrier island of Happiness Key.
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Season in Pinecraft volume 3
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"Almost two years after Lilly Kurtz first traveled to Pinecraft, Florida, she's decided to make a fresh start there. At first, everything goes well. But it turns out the past is reluctant to be left behind. When Lilly meets hardworking farmer Eddie Byler, she can't get him off of her mind. But then she descovers that Eddie actually lives just a few miles from her hometown in Ohio. Lilly knows that he's not going to like it when he finds out what secrets...
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Salty Key Inn volume 2
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Darcy Sullivan and her two sisters continue to work hard at the Salty Key Inn, the small, Florida hotel they unexpectedly inherited. In order to inherit the rest of Uncle Gavin's sizeable estate, they must meet his challenge to open the neglected hotel by the end of the year. Darcy figures once they meet the challenge, she'll take off, travel the world, and maybe, just maybe, begin writing the world's best novel. When she meets Nick Howard, an older...
10) Finding family
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Salty Key Inn volume 4.G
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English
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Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle Gavin's challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle's sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they'll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation. But Darcy and Regan want to move on with their lives--Darcy writing...
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Working at a small family-owned cookie manufacturing plant in Florida, 27-year-old Karina Cort©Øes, happy with her single life, finds business mixing with pleasure when she meets the company's hot new mechanic and must decide whether she's willing to risk her heart or continue keeping people at arm's length.
12) Undertow
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Tempest Island volume 3
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English
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When Jill Morgan left Tempest Island after high school, she didn't know what she wanted to do the rest of her life. The only thing she'd ever loved was writing fiction, but that was a pursuit with no financial guarantees. So she did the responsible thing and got her college degree, then a job that provided a good living, and she wrote in her free time. She never expected to become a bestseller, but her books-written under a pseudonym-brought her millions...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
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"Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light"--
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house,...
15) Happiness Key
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Happiness Key volume 1
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English
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"When her husband was sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche was left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand, five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over. An exile in a strange country, Janya Kapur left her wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a job guaranteed to destroy it--if her husband cares enough...
16) A hard death
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After he finds himself demoted from forensic pathologist to medical examiner in a Florida resort town, Edward Jenner must investigate the murder of his friend, the appearance of four bodies hanging in the Everglades, and the criminal conspiracy overshadowing it all.
17) Feeding frenzy
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Killer species volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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When one of their friends is attacked by an unidentified underwater monster in the Florida Keys, Emmet and Calvin realize that Dr. Calvin is back and is seeking revenge.
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When hungover ex-lawyer and Key West bar owner Jack Girard groggily wakes up one morning, he's greeted by a beautiful woman lying next to him and a shrill, ringing telephone. Seeing the call is from his father, Claude "The Duke" Girard, Jack answers. Within seconds, he learns that his mother is dead in an apparent suicide, and Jack hits the road, heading back to his childhood home in Miami to face his tyrannical father. The death of his mother brings...
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"Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona Beach unchaperoned. When the boys missed their agreed-upon daily check-ins, their parents were disappointed. When they failed to come home on their planned return date, their parents were terrified. They could not have known that their innocent sons would encounter two violent men on the Florida coast. They could not have...
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