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English
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Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals. She is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys, and, as the only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. After Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case he pledges to protect Ellie until...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
7) Bulls Island
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English
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Betts hasn't been back to Bulls Island since the tragic night that ended her engagement to Charleston's golden boy. Twenty years later, she leaves her comfortable life and is back in contact with everything she's tried to hard to forget.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.
16) The witness
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English
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A woman flees across the South, pursued by people who want to kill her. She is Kendall Burnwood, witness to a racial murder committed by her husband, a newspaper editor. She has been summoned to testify at the trial and the family want to silence her.
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Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Mystery bookstore owner and sleuth Annie Darling of South Carolina searches for the killer of a general whose racism and sexism created many enemies. Suspects range from a black man to a gay librarian. By the author of Mint Julep Murder.
Author
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
On an island in South Carolina, a woman is murdered while collecting donations for the annual white elephant sale. Sleuth and bookseller Annie Darling discovers she was blackmailing people on the island. Question is whom and why?
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
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