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Pub. Date
2018.
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After her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes up hungover and in bed with a stranger. Then she's hit with the harrowing news of Angie's murder; her friend who had been alive at the party last night. In the build up to the wedding day, more secrets are revealed and the murderer zeros in on another victim. Can the killer be stopped in time?
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Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2003
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Skye Denison and the rest of Scumble River is celebrating it's bicentennial in style-with reenactments, a bingo tent, and a coal-tossing contest. Best of all, the guest of honor is the town founder's great-great-grandnephew, Gabriel Scumble. But his visit turns out to be short-lived when he is found dead. The murder weapon: a pickax.
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Series
Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Police detective Marti MacAlister, a recently widowed mother, investigates the death of a young Chicago woman found along the rocky shores of Lake Michigan; what Marti doesn't know is that while she's working hard to stop one killer, another from the past has her family in his sights.
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A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success -- and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
87) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Unless eleven-year-old Parker can find a way to remove the sinister puppet that refuses to leave his hand, he will wind up in military school or worse but first he must stand up for himself to his best friend Wren, his mother, and his nearly-absent father.
89) Over the river
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
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Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The police in Fox River, Illinois, disinter a local mobster, only to find an empty coffin, leaving Father Dowling to figure out how the missing corpse is related to a mysterious Italian manuscript.
91) Small favor
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Series
Dresden files volume 10
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A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective's latest tale, but it's not long before a host of more dangerous foes are out for Harry's blood. A missing human mobster is said to be seeking greater influence among Chicago's extranormal population, but the true threat proves both more subtle and of much greater consequence.
94) Omens
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Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor-Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism, and is engaged to a handsome young CEO with political ambitions. But Olivias world is shattered when she learns that shes adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving life sentences. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
97) Claim to fame
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
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Series
Frederick Michael volume 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A Midwest family drama series about a talented group of strangers who come together to help Freddy make a documentary.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha. But when the truth about Benji surfaces, it will splinter this family's fragile dynamic, sending repercussions spiraling through their close-knit rural...
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