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1) Triptych
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Crime fiction at its finest.”—Michael Connelly
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage...
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage...
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"Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it's a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival. Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. Now she's back with a new face, a new magic, and a new name - Aurelia Ryder - drawn by the urgent need to protect the family she...
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One World Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Blue Hamilton, "godfather" of his Atlanta neighborhood where crime is unknown, becomes pitted against the "Too Fine Five," Amazonian African-American supermodels whose arrival in town spells trouble. Seems that when the vamps are done with their men, the men will be done ... for good.
4) Control
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English
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Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families, the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered....
7) Smash cut
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
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English
Description
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more...
8) Downtown
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns.
10) Magic bites
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
Description
Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormal kind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents her greatest challenge.
11) Magic burns
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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When mercenary Kate Daniels is hired to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she is plunged into the middle of an epic battle between two gods hoping for rebirth.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
13) The old religion
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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A Jew in 1915 Atlanta is falsely accused of raping and murdering a woman employee of his factory and pays for it with his life. Based on real events, the novel looks at the precarious position of Jews in Christian society.
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English
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"Atlanta, 1974. With a beloved cop gunned down, his brothers in blue out for blood, and the city on the edge of war, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She's determined to defy her privileged background, but life will be anything but easy in a macho world where even the female police officers have little mercy for rookies. Kate isn't the only one feeling the heat. Her new partner, Maggie Lawson, followed her uncle...
15) Resistant
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Series
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English
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Dr. Lou Welcome must stop an epidemic, save his best friend, and uncover a shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors that has infiltrated society and is using health institutions as hostages.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has enveloped their city. Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell,...
18) Nutcase
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Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Kate Holly is about to get evicted from her office, and her best option may be to share space with her jacuzzi-loving ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thad Glazer. But that's not going to help her patch things up with her firefighter ex-husband. With her oddball patients, meddling mother, and eccentric secretary thrown into the mix--not to mention a spree of suspicious fires--will Kate put her life back together or wind up in a padded cell?
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Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Getting close to Adam Bayne, the director of the local men's rehab center, Atlanta reporter Toni Shields finds their relationship, future, and faith threatened by her family secret and Adam's devastating past.
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