Kate Reading
101) The last precinct
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Language
English
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Description
Attracting unwanted attentions when she is mandated to research the four-hundred-year-old murder of a Jamestown, Virginia, settler, Kay Scarpetta finds enemies among those she is sworn to protect.
102) A memory of light
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
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Description
The conclusion to the Wheel of Time series draws on notes left by the late Robert Jordan.
103) Death at the door
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...
104) The house I loved
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
"Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a modern city. The reforms will erase generations of history-but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction...
105) The Boy in the Snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Edie Kiglatuk's discovery along Alaska's Iditarod Trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy. M. J. McGrath's debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smilla's Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series. In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod
...106) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2.5
Language
English
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Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting...
107) Middlemarch
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Language
English
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In nineteenth-century England, Dorothea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.
108) The Glass Town game
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. The young man is adamant: he will speak to Karen Borg, and to her
...110) The prophet
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward, and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over...
111) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and-if the telegram can be believed-be greeted in Washington...
112) Six women of Salem: the untold story of the accused and their accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
What was it like to be there and, if you were lucky, to live through it? In a this combination of narrative and historical research, the author, a Salem Witch Trial scholar brings the terrifying times to life while illuminating the lives of the accused, the accusers, and the afflicted.-- Back cover.