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1) The whistler
Author
Series
Lucy Stoltz volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, takes on a case involving a corrupt judge, a Native American casino, and the mafia when a previously disbarred lawyer approaches her on behalf of a client who claims to know the truth.
Author
Language
English
Description
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.  Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.Â
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Matter of Life and Death, an indigent man has been set up for the brutal murder of the wealthy wife of a prominent judge in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest legal thriller featuring Robin Lockwood. Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the world, there are little animals, tiny flowers, and things so small you can’t see them. In the world, there are giant waves, a large sun, and things so big you can’t wrap your hands around them. There are big things and little things in the world. And everything in between—including you!
10) Me on the map
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.
Author
Series
A Jack Swyteck novel volume 16
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After taking a case at the heart of the immigration debate, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck may not be able to save Julia and her daughter when an enemy from their past tracks them to south Florida.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
14) Pennsylvania
Author
Publisher
Lerner
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
2nd rev. and expanded ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. maps, ports., charts, music ; 19 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and environmental concerns of the state of Pennsylvania.
16) False witness
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle and her pupils embark on a rock-collecting field-trip aboard the Magic School Bus that takes them to the very center of the earth as they search for sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks
18) The final case
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a children's book for early readers that describes the sun, where it is in the solar system, its importance to the earth, sun spots and solar flares, and more.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-fourth president, Barack H. Obama. Hilariously illustrated by Small, this celebration by St. George shows us the foibles, quirks and humanity of forty-four men who have risen to one of the most powerful positions in the world.