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"A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--Swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P.D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories...
2) Gleanings
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
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Pub. Date
2023
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The residents of Clayton, Colorado, must learn to live with what has burned and what threatens to ignite. In Defensible Spaces, a bus driver confronts a rush of memories when an old flame climbs aboard; a trailer park resident attempts to save her home; a reclusive fire mitigation worker fuels public outrage. Throughout ten linked short stories, townspeople work through relationships with alcoholism, history, and each other, negotiating where and...
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A Shadow Stalkers novella from the #1 New York Times When insurance investigator Anastasia Miller sets out to retrieve the rose-hued pink diamonds stolen in a recent heist, she finds herself working alongside former flame, Deputy US Marshal Jake Monroe—the man she loved enough to leave behind. Blood and RosesGuns and Roses
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Pub. Date
2013
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In this e-book short story by Rick Riordan, Carter Kane is investigating rumored sightings of a monster on Long Island when he runs into something else: a mysterious boy named Percy Jackson. And their meeting isn't exactly friendly. . . .
Includes a sneak peek chapter from HOUSE OF HADES, Book Four in the Heroes of Olympus series.
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Lauren Groff presents nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything....
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2022.
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A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A prince romances a troll. A girl romances an imaginary boy. And Simon Snow himself returns for a holiday adventure. It’s a feast of irresistible characters, hilarious dialogue, and masterful storytelling—in short, everything...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Written by some of today's most exciting teen authors, Vacations from Hell offers five unique takes on a universal experience—unforgettable trips.
This third Hell collection features stories of vacations that take a serious turn for the worse when paranormal elements interfere.
Claudia Gray's teen witch falls for the wrong guy on her family's yearly beach trip,
Cassandra Clare's
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
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The facts of how Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes and the details of some of their most fascinating cases unfold dramatically in these stories that are full of suspense, excitement, and mystery. This famous sleuth follows the trails that lead to dangerous criminals bent on causing harm to innocent citizens.
12) Bluebeard's Egg
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Pub. Date
2013
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With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood's place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*
With Bluebeard's Egg, her second short story collection, Atwood covers a dramatic range of storytelling, her scope encompassing the...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Today is the perfect day to die. Bernard is the type of man that accomplishes all that he sets out to-and easily. He's intelligent, hardworking, and completely unfamiliar with failure. His only complaint-the singular source of the inner anger bubbling within him-is that no one else in the world recognizes that. It's time to force them to. Bernard's had enough. Enough of the complete absence of respect in his life, of being looked down upon, of being...
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Pub. Date
2021
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"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful."-Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite
In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South...
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Pub. Date
2012
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Mark Sullivan, the co-author of James Patterson's Private Games, has, in Robin Monarch, created a compelling new hero. Monarch is a world-class thief and a highly skilled operative, a man with skills, a rigid code of honor, powerful friends and implacable enemies. In 'The Art of Rendition,' Monarch is an agent for the CIA, called upon to use his unique skills to kidnap and interrogate a Russian nuclear scientist suspected of selling technology to...
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Pub. Date
2022
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In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most exciting young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux.
These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death...
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Septimus Heap volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
New York Times Bestselling Series
"A deliciously spellbinding series opener." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Fun, mystery, and rollicking characters." -VOYA (starred review)
"Fluent, charismatic storytelling." -ALA Booklist
Septimus Heap, the...
20) Father Goose
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Pub. Date
2022
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes a heartwarming Texas-set tale of romance and adventure in which the Civil War is over, Christmas is coming-and it's time for a rugged fighter to become a lover.
Dispirited by war, Trapper Hawkins accepts a job hauling five little rich girls to Dallas. All he cares about is the money. He doesn't expect the girls will awaken his spirit-much less that their intriguing nursemaid,...