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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Fransisco's...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Patterson debuts his new series that introduces the Women's Murder Club. A demented killer stalks and murders newlyweds in San Francisco. Four women-a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter, and a medical examiner-join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down a criminal whose twisted imagination stuns and entire city.
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When an unthinkable tragedy leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club in critical condition, the others must fight to keep a deranged man locked away. Meanwhile, a series of ransomless child kidnappings rocks the city and confounds law enforcement.
When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which...
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Women's Murder Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Lt. Lindsay Boxer and the members of the Women's Murder Club face a defensive hospital administration and a wily killer when they set out to learn why a rash of recuperating patients at a San Francisco hospital, on the verge of being released, have suddenly taken a fatal turn for the worse.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where...
8) 11th hour
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found--and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled....
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When celebrated couple Isa and Ethan Bailey become the victims of a murder in which no evidence is left at the scene, Lindsay Boxer begins an investigation, while reporter Cindy Thomas probes the killing of a preacher who may not have been as saintly as he appeared.
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los...
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar and in just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Before the Women's Murder Club can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Detective Lindsay Boxer to...
15) Unlucky 13
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A secret from Angel's past threatens to destroy her relationship with Michael Hosea in this retelling of the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush.
17) 14th deadly sin
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"With San Francisco under siege and everyone a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city--and each other" --
"With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? What starts off as a dilemma that Arthur is faced with when he discovers Lauren in his apartment, becomes a heartwarming love story that's impossible to forget. Just Like Heaven is a captivating tale that evokes the essence of romance and our boundless capacity...
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