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1) Plain Jane
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels shows that deep inside every woman lies something beyond extraordinary . . .
Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead, she was just Plain Jane—a painfully shy wallflower no one would remember. Today, lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving therapy practice, her own radio talk show,...
Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead, she was just Plain Jane—a painfully shy wallflower no one would remember. Today, lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving therapy practice, her own radio talk show,...
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Newpointe 911 volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, struggles with the agonizing question: who did it-and why? Paramedic Issie Mattreaux is no icon of virtue, but she cares enough about her teenage nephew, Jake, to track him down when he turns up missing....
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The South comes alive in Book three of New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler's fan-favorite Blossoms of the South series. Night Jasmine Hunter Powell's no family man, though Aimee Bourdeaux once tried to convince him otherwise. The heat between them was undeniable, but Hunter's haunted past kept him from truly giving his heart. Now, years later, the connection between Aimee and Hunter is even stronger … especially considering the son...
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"Maggie Crozat's B&B is affected by a new cell phone app that lets locals rent their rooms to tourists so she concocts a Halloween-themed marketing scheme. During the festivities, though, a masked participant gives up the ghost and Maggie must solve the case."--Publisher.
7) Blind alley
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Eve Duncan novels volume 5
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The New York Times bestselling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won’t leave you time to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in a deadly duel with a serial killer determined to destroy her—one life at a time.
Eve Duncan’s job is to put a face on the faceless victims of violent crimes....
Eve Duncan’s job is to put a face on the faceless victims of violent crimes....
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Ya-Yas volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.y
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"Hayes Bradford -- the very handsome man sitting on Alice Dougherty's sofa asking for her advice -- is the widowed father she'd once come close to marrying. That was twelve long years ago, but Alice remembers Hayes breaking her heart as though it were yesterday. His adorable son is now all grown-up and about to be a dad, but Hayes isn't ready to be a grandfather. Suddenly Alice finds herself in the middle of the family she still very much wants to...
10) Mister and me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
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Second chances (Terri Blackstock) volume 1
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Normally, Wes Grayson would have been attracted to the striking woman with the camera. But this woman has clearly been stalking Amy, his adoptive daughter and the center of his life. And a threat to Amy is a threat to Wes. Laney Fields has no desire to threaten anyone, just a longing to see the child she'd brought into the world six years ago and then been forced to release for adoption. But when she learns that Amy's adoptive mother has died, Laney...
13) Ghost walk
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A paranormal investigator comes to the aid of a frightened New Orleans businesswoman in this "unrelentingly suspenseful" romantic thriller (Booklist).
Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer...
14) Fiddle Fever
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun, he visits and forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. Best Books for Young Teen Readers. In the 1940s in rural Louisiana,...
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Piper Reed volume 5
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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After bidding goodbye to her friends Michael and Nicole, who are moving away, Piper and her sisters spend winter break with their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, Louisiana, where Piper learns that the best adventures are the unexpected ones.
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Rumors abound when Sunny Chandler makes an appearance in her hometown to attend her best friend's wedding. She's passed the last three years in New Orleans, and her sophisticated new look catches the eye of everyone she meets--especially Ty Beaumont, the town's sexy sheriff.
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Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is stuck in the middle of a vampire gathering on the verge of disaster in the seventh novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.
Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with shapeshifter Quinn—a possible new man in her life—and the upcoming central U.S. Vampire Summit on the shores...
Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with shapeshifter Quinn—a possible new man in her life—and the upcoming central U.S. Vampire Summit on the shores...
20) Half Of Paradise
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Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a...
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