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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
"An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune
A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our...
"An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune
A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our...
2) Ghost moon
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Olivia Morrison, raised by her affluent stepfather on a lavish Louisiana estate, meets with both danger and love when she returns to her childhood home with her eight-year-old daughter after a disasterous marriage.
3) Torn apart
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Storm front volume 2
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English
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Katie Earle is ready to blame her estranged husband J.R. when her young son Bobby disappears as a tornado strikes Bordelaise, Louisiana, but when J.R. proves his innocence, the pair reunite with a common mission to recover their lost child.
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 6
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English
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Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse unexpectedly inherits the estate of her cousin Hadley, a consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans, and finds herself facing a group of undead enemies who will stop at nothing to keep Sookie from looking into Hadley's past and possessions.
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English
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Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community—yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder. Were their deaths the ultimate punishment for those secrets? Or something even more sinister? Nell Gallagher has come home to Silence more than a decade after leaving one dark night with...
6) Voodoo River
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English
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Elvis Cole finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, a Cajun thug, and a menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1980
Edition
Pocket Books pbk. ed.
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377 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Cader Harris returns to Hayden, Louisiana, eighteen years after he left to pursue fame and fortune, and finds himself confronted by the two women he left behind--rich girl Irene Hayden whose father paid Cader to leave town, and Sunday Waters, the soul mate from the wrong side of the tracks.
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Harvest House Publishers
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English
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Miranda Miller returns to her grandparent's antebellum estate to discover her past and receive her rightful inheritance, but the only person who can help her dies prematurely and she finds herself facing deep secrets and unknown enemies.
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Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law's death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana.
Unfortunately, death doesn't slow down Helena one bit.
DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into – especially as
...10) Blind alley
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English
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan confronts her ultimate challenge when she is asked to identify the victims of a serial killer who is going to remarkable lengths to hide the identity of his victims.
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Ya-Yas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thornton, Louisiana.
12) Private justice
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Newpointe 911 volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A serial killer is stalking the wives of the firemen in a Louisiana town.
13) Sunset limited
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
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English
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Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.
The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity...
The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity...
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What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?
New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs-only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she...
15) Cry wolf
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English
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The scream heard by no one is the deadliest. In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing one by one, only to turn up on the banks of the bayou, strangled and cast aside where they are sure to be found. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced forever.... Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. That once-burning obsession had...
17) Ghost Shadow
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Bone Island trilogy volume 1
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English
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Rediscover the Bone Island trilogy, a thrilling suspense series from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution…vengeance…to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.
Katie O'Hara is one who can.
As she's drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and...
18) Ghost Night
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Bone Island trilogy volume 2
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English
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Rediscover the Bone Island trilogy, a thrilling series of haunted suspense by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre.
Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region....
19) Body of lies
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Eve Duncan novels volume 4
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English
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Eve Duncan, the signature character of #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, thought her past was long buried. Until she finds herself tracking a killer so deceptive he leaves no trace behind—except for his victims.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has been summoned to Baton Rouge by a high-ranking government official to identify the remains of an unknown murder victim. Eve wants nothing to do with the...
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has been summoned to Baton Rouge by a high-ranking government official to identify the remains of an unknown murder victim. Eve wants nothing to do with the...
20) Ghost Moon
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Bone Island trilogy volume 3
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English
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Plunge back into the Bone Island trilogy, a thrilling series of haunted suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West-lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell....
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