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Truly Devious volume 1
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2024 FPPL Summer Reading YA Mysteries
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
AMPL Dark Academia
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Ellingham Academy was founded by Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only...
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"In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn" -- from publisher's web site.
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"Former beauty queen and fledgling private investigator Madeline Maclin, has married her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, and settled into his old house in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...And now Madeline is involved in the mysterious death of Amelia Lever, an unpopular teacher at Celosia Elementary School...And then there's Maddy's latest case. Nathan Fenton has hired her to help solve a riddle left to him by his Uncle Elijah, a man who...
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YouSpace volume 2
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Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife. And had his destiny foretold and had his true love spirited away. That's precisely the sort of stuff that'd bring out the latent heroism in anyone. Unfortunately, Maurice is pretty sure he hasn't got any latent heroism. Meanwhile, a man wakes up in a jar in a different kind of pickle (figuratively speaking). He can't get out, of course, but neither can he remember his name, or what gravity is, or...
6) The spider
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"Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body count begins...
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Rather novels volume 4
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Newlywed American heiress Penny Nichols and her English husband Jeremy Laidley return from their honeymoon only to be sent by Prince Charles on a mission to Cornwall to solve an Elizabethan riddle and save an historic village from a developer's wrecking ball.
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Yugi is a smaller than average high school student, and becomes an easy target for the bullies at school. He is given an ancient Egyptian riddle called the Millennium Puzzle by his grandfather who is a local game shop manager. Yugi pieces the puzzle together and unexpectedly becomes the powerful Game King. Now the heroic Yugi squares off against arch-rival Kaiba in an adventure even more dangerous when the imaginary monsters in their playing cards...
11) Scatterbrain Sam
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Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.
12) The dying day
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Malabar house volume 2
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Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker.
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