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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When he investigates the murder of an actress outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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An irresistible story of love and death, this Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes — and a new life for Easy and his friends.
4) Found
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain...
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Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
Author
Series
Tucker Sinclair novels volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are called to a...
10) Loving
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
11) Family
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Pub
Pub. Date
2011, ©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children, while a sensational Hollywood trial reunites Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart, but just when love has the chance to win, doubts and presumed scandals push them further apart.
12) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
13) Kindred
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
14) The Black Box
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In this "superb" thriller, Detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the unsolved killing of a young female photographer during the 1992 L.A. riots (Wall Street Journal).
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the...
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the...
15) Forever
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Katie Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now she and the members of the Baxter family must travel to Los Angeles and sort through their options. While paparazzi open fire on the Baxter family, Luke Baxter must wrestle with feelings that have troubled him for nearly a year. Ultimately, the Baxter family must pull...
16) Influence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
After her video goes viral, Delilah Rollins knows everything is going to change. She has no idea how much. Jasmine Walters-Diaz, a child star turned media darling, can practically break the...
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Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake...
18) Tucker
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2008, c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Tells the improbable story of a man whose vision of the future of the automobile, leads to a run-in with Detroit when he tries to make the dream a reality.
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