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"Returning to Virginia's post-revolutionary history and to characters introduced in Tail Gait, the story follows the Garth sisters and their husbands, neighbors to a brutal slaveholder whose murder at the hands of one of his slaves is neither unexpected nor unwarranted, especially when the impetus was an attack on that slave's wife. The sisters manage to smuggle the fugitive to safety in York, Pennsylvania, while ensuring that the circumstances underlying...
82) Meet the Mothman
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Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Gabe and the other monster hunters arrive in a wildlife management area in West Virginia to investigate reports of a monster called the Mothman--but mostly what they see are owls, until something much larger attacks them in the night.
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Ballad novels volume 8
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English
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In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lotabout science...And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
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English
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A medical examiner and her FBI team investigate the deaths of a mother and child, which leads them to a littleknown research facility--the Body Farm.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.
88) Second sight
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Jigsaw files volume 2
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English
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When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters. The...
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Series
May Bird trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Still trapped in the Ever After, ten-year-old May Bird struggles to decide whether to save the world of her ghostly friends from the evil Bo Cleevil or to return to her West Virginia home.
90) Brotherhood
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Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A story of a family in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, during which many feared that the freed slaves would take the few jobs available, elucidates the climate of despair and fear that gave rise to a group known today as the KKK.
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English
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For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes. Then, in the summer of 2020, he's assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia—Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer,
...92) Amazing Gracie
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
After Gracie MacDougal quits her job at a Paris hotel, she heads for a small Virginia town where she meets a man who helps make all her dreams come true.
94) Last seen alive
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Chyna Greer returns home for her mother's funeral and finds herself haunted by memories of her childhood friend Zoey, who disappeared when the girls were only sixteen, and as Chyna delves into the town's mysterious past searching for answers, she discovers a chilling secret that threatens everything she loves.
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English
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Tallie Brown's life has never made sense. Raised in isolation by her mother, Julia, Tallie was dragged suddenly and without explanation from one third-world outpost to another until life normalized seven years ago when Julia took a position on a mountaintop in the Pacific northwest. But when Julia unexpectedly dies, Tallie uncovers clues suggesting that Julia had a secret life. Journalistic phenom Jackson James is still recovering from the devastating...
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this haunting story of vengeance, greed, and the fierce struggle for social justice.
98) Probable claws
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Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
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English
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"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
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