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Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
This work is a fantasy children's novel that explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. Doomed to--or blessed with--eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
3) The maze
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Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
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Language
English
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his team-mates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late summer twilight. But then a voice, scared, calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. He walks to the sound, where two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, face down, is something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't...
6) Envy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Maris Matherly-Reed is a book publisher who has been given part of what she is sure is a best seller. But she has to travel to Georgia to coax the remaining chapters from the reclusive author, and the more she reads, the more convinced she is that the book is not fiction, but the description of a double murder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Trial lawyer turned nationally best-selling author, James Grippando has earned a reputation for his race-against-time thrillers, including Under Cover of Darkness, Found Money, The Informant, and The Pardon. His sixth book in just eight years, A King's Ransom surges with gripping tension. Fresh out of law school, Nick Rey lands a job with a prestigious Miami law firm, and he's at the top of his game. But a dark cloud of misfortune is moving in-his...
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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues, for the car isn't exactly a car; it may well be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and ......
9) Hard eight
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Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum is joined by Morelli, Ranger, Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur, who find themselves on the ride of their lives, when Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law
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English
Description
The citizens of Pickax are celebrating the opening of its latest theatrical production and the dedication of a new bookstore and park built in memory of beloved bookstore owner, Edd Smith. Columnist Jim Qwilleran is working on a book on the historic guest residence, Hibbard House. Then an actor dies under suspicious circumstances and a rare book is stolen. Qwill and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, find a connection between these apparently unconnected...