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Akashic Books
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English
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"In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on a farm in southern Indiana receives a mysterious gift--a beautiful quarter horse--that upends the balance of their lives. The horse catches the attention of two meth-dealing brothers who steal and sell the animal. Grandfather and grandson pursue the ruthless criminals across the bleak heartland, all the while confronting the misperceptions [sic] of their...
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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
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English
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Romeo and Juliet meet the Wild West in this great, uncensored historical romance western from Zane Grey. Based on the real-life Graham-Tewskbury feud, this tale includes many of the incidents that have since become lore. Grey's 'To the Last Man' is the more widely read, though censored, version of these events.
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Dragon Masters volume 3
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English
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When Drake discovers that his friend and fellow Dragon Master, Bo, is trying to steal the Dragon Stone, he wonders if the dark wizard might be behind it, and he must try to find a way to protect the stone while keeping Bo's family out of danger.
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Map to everywhere volume 1
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English
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Twelve-year-old Fin, a master thief from the pirate world of Khaznot Quay, and Marrill, also twelve, of Arizona, cross paths in the magical world of the Pirate Stream while on a quest for a mysterious map.
10) My life of crime
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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A sixth grader's discovery of a bedraggled classroom pet parrot sets him on an adventure with real ethical and legal implications.
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Random House Children's Books
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English
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When KC and Marshall see lights flickering at night in the Washington Monument, their investigation turns up a monkey, a hole in one of the monument stones, and a hundred-year-old mystery.
After they see suspicious lights flickering at the top of the Washington Monument, KC and Marshall set off on a wild adventure to solve a 100-year-old mystery that involves a jewel thief, long-lost diamonds, and one of Washingtons most famous and historic landmarks....
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Trixie Belden volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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While organizing an ice carnival to raise funds for her pen pal's school library, Trixie investigates a mysterious problem facing Regan and a run of thefts and accidents in the neighborhood.
14) Framed
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English
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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Didi Dodo future spy volume 1
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English
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When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help--whether he wants her to or not.--
16) Hollywood holdup
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English
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At Halloween, facing a series of disasters while pet sitting, thirteen-year-old twins Ashley and Bryce gain insights into their principal and classmate Boo, and investigate a string of robberies at fast food restaurants in and around Red Rock.
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All the wrong questions volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner sets off into Oklahoma Territory pursuing a bank robber unaware that notorious cattle rustler Jebediah Cotton has sent his five remaining sons and a cold-hearted brother-in-law after Tanner to avenge the death of Cotton's youngest son"--
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"Reece Canby, owner of the Diamond RC, spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty Chief Antone's Mescalero tribe owns the Sentinel Basin. Now this grazing land is desired by Sax Starke and Chelso DeLacca of the Teepee spread in order for them to expand their cattle herd. The first step in their plan is to stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the federal government will have to intervene. Dobe and Ponco,...