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1) Breakdown
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When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Maddy's detective mother vanishes while investigating a mysterious disappearance near Pike's Cave. Legend has it that the cave is inhabited by an evil spirit with the power to possess people. Are both disappearances tied to the cave? According to The Atlas of Cursed Places, Maddy and her boyfriend are running out of time to save her mother from the dark power that lurks there.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 31
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"Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller featuring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis confirms his status as today's preeminent practitioner of saber-sharp storytelling. Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly...
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This is book 3 and the finale of the Mojave Boys MC series!
A man like me takes what he wants — and doesn't take no for an answer.
Maya is a jewel in this godforsaken desert. Not to mention the finest piece of a$$ I've seen in a long time. But she's not gonna be as easy to get in bed as my usual fare of dirty club girls. She's a professional model who gives as good as she gets. Fiery, feisty, and independent as hell, she says she isn't gonna let...
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Stay alive volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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When the bus carrying a group of kids home from summer camp breaks down on an abandoned road during a heatwave, the group must survive the elements and find help, over sixty miles away.
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"If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take...
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How are you going to keep them down on the farm-after they've seen the truth?
13) Breakdown
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Arcana
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Jeff Carey discovers that he has unique abilities and decides to use them for good as Paragon, the world's first superhero. In time other superhumans appear, such as Humongulous and Cactus Rose, but Paragon is forced to confront them. But when his family is murdered, Paragon becomes a deadly vigilante desperate to get revenge.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss
Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living-every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to...
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New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence system to show how this system completely broke down in the years, months, and days leading up to the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Breakdown volume 1
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Jeff Carey discovers that he has unique abilities and decides to use them for good as Paragon, the world's first superhero. In time other superhumans appear, such as Humongulous and Cactus Rose, but Paragon is forced to confront them. But when his family is murdered, Paragon becomes a deadly vigilante desperate to get revenge.
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A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But, this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.
Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a change in the composition of the faculty during this...
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A riveting spectacle of a woman caught in the darkening madness of mania, wandering aimlessly in a river and into a home where she was brutally attacked and her dignity stripped away as she was handcuffed by police. There were years of manic attacks, psychiatric hospitals, much despair and hopelessness.
She was caught in the snares of mental illness. Read of her incredible journey to wellness with medical assistance, an incredible support system,...
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Is a national consensus on hydrocarbon development possible?
The ongoing debate in Canada over the extraction of hydrocarbon resources and their transportation to markets exemplifies the country's political polarization. Breakdown explores these tensions through economic,
environmental, and political perspectives.
The Trudeau Liberals and Alberta's one-term NDP government attempted to find a compromise that satisfies the concerns of British...
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When hospitals release seriously mentally ill patients too soon without outpatient follow-up, the patients can end up homeless, jailed, harming others, or even dead. When patients are deemed suitable for inpatient care, they can languish for weeks in hospital emergency departments before placements become available. Meanwhile, patients who fake the need for care are smoothly and swiftly moved to inpatient settings. Breakdown opens a dialogue with...