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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 17
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"Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common--the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
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When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. Tempe must also examine a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies confiscated by U.S. Customs. A Desert Storm veteran stands accused of smuggling the objects into the country. Tempe must also grapple with personal turmoil. Her daughter, Katy, grieving the death of her boyfriend in Afghanistan, impulsively enlists in the army. Katys...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 23
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The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something "real dead ... buried in your marsh." The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city's under siege to an insidious killer.
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"Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...
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Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigators dream-hes getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and...
6) Bonesmith
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House of the dead duology volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old failed ghost-fighting warrior, Wren, journies to the haunted wasteland of the Breach to rescue a kidnapped prince and must team up with the very person responsible for the kidnapping.
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines makes her the only one who can set things right.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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Reichs--bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the television hit "Bones," based on her Temperance Brennan books--delivers more awe-inspiring science and surprising twists in this gripping, sophisticated thriller.
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2019
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The 10th installment in the “laugh-out-loud, fast-paced, and charming” bestselling Haunted Guesthouse cozy mystery series (Kate Carlisle, New York Times–bestselling author).
Proprietress Alison Kerby and her ghostly guest detective “auto” know better than to dig into the case of a long-buried sedan and its now-skeletal driver . . .
Innkeeper Alison Kerby is determined to keep her mind, body,...
Proprietress Alison Kerby and her ghostly guest detective “auto” know better than to dig into the case of a long-buried sedan and its now-skeletal driver . . .
Innkeeper Alison Kerby is determined to keep her mind, body,...
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Oracles of fire volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 30
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As the fiery wall of Abraham dies away, the people of Second Eden wait for the coming war, unaware that a spy has come among them.
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A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the hospital, police discover bloody towels outside in a Dumpster. Fearing the worst, they call Temperance Brennan to investigate.In a run-down apartment Tempe makes a ghastly discovery: the decomposing bodies of three infants....
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2015
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Featuring a preview of the highly anticipated new thriller Speaking in Bones, this eBook original novella showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs at the peak of her powers. In Bones on Ice, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan gets wrapped up in the ultimate cold case: a death on Mount Everest.
It is called the "death zone": the point on Everest, nearly five miles high, above which...
It is called the "death zone": the point on Everest, nearly five miles high, above which...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter...
16) Bones
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1995
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Explains the function of the skeletal system which is comprised of 206 bones.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 7
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Reporter Irene Kelly is given permission to accompany a team of law enforcement experts on a grisly journey to the grave of Julia Sayre after serial murderer Nick Parrish agrees to lead them to the site in exchange for a reduction in his death sentence, but Irene soon comes to suspect Nick has other plans in mind and must think fast to keep from becoming his next victim.
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A frozen corpse found in a lake near the Oak Ridge, Tenn., nuclear research facility turns out to be that of Dr. Leonard Novak, one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. When the source of death, potent radioactive material the old man somehow ingested, poisons the local medical examiner, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton suspects a link between the present-day murder and long-forgotten events.
19) Bones
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1999.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes how bones perform different functions as part of the human body.