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1) The return
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Moving into a family beekeeper cabin to recuperate from war injuries, an Afghanistan veteran falls in love with a guarded sheriff while working with a sullen local teen to investigate the mystery of a grandparent's death.
Author
Series
A Cormoran Strike novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...