Mela Lee
1) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
2) The 6:20 man
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a cryptic murder, a former soldier-turned-entry-level analyst, who boards the 6:20 commuter train like clockwork, is forced into a clandestine investigation into his firm that takes him to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power, rife with corruption, where a killer awaits.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Running into reclusive author Shane Hall at a literary event, bestselling erotica writer Eva Mercy, over the next seven days, reconnects with this man who broke her heart 20 years earlier until he disappears again, leaving more questions than answers.
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 31
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson join forces again to protect the Cross family from a shadow force advancing on the nation’s capital.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 30
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On the trail of a serial killer who targets entire families, leaving behind no physical evidence, Detectives Alex Cross and Sampson team up with the world’s best-selling true crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses, until the Family Man flips the script, hunting down Cross and his family.
7) The Island
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a family that must face their darkest fears—and deepest secrets—when they go on the run for their lives.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A NEW YORK TIMES "BEST THRILLER OF 2022""Unrelenting suspense." —Stephen King
“Extraordinary.” —T....
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose.
Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days...
Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE
“[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times
A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade ·...
“[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times
A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade ·...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. Nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fans of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, this gripping YA novel digs into the historical and present-day effects of white supremacy and the depths of privilege.
Shania never thinks much about being white. But after her beloved grandmother passes, she moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and hypervisible, and Shania's new friends...
Shania never thinks much about being white. But after her beloved grandmother passes, she moves to the gentrifying town of Blue Rock and is thrust into Bard, the city's wealthiest private school. At Bard, race is both invisible and hypervisible, and Shania's new friends...