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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Banned from flying after an altercation with airport security, cash-strapped journalist Tom Langdon is forced to take the train to Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, financing the trip by selling a story about a train ride taken during the holiday season.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and professional skeptic, finds himself in over his head when he arrives at the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, and falls head over heels for the granddaughter of the supposed town psychic.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when her circle of literary friends' infamous book club turns from talk of the lettered world to a nightmare without seeming end. If she's not careful, this may very well be the LAST book party..."--
Author
Series
Private Justice volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A desperate young woman teams up with a tenacious private investigator to find her missing sister before the trail goes cold.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
257 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fun, sweet, classic romance from favorite author Debbie Macomber. Maryanne Simpson is working hard to make it as a journalist; it's not her fault that her father happens to own the newspaper! After rival columnist Nolan Adams writes an unflattering piece about her, she's furious. But Maryanne decides the tough, streetwise newsman is right about one thing: her life has been too easy. So she quits her job, leaves her luxury apartment and swears not...
Author
Series
Private Justice volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four years after the loss of her husband and son in a boating accident, Kate Marshall spots a boy on a mall escalator who she is convinced is her son and seeks the help of private detective Connor Sullivan when the police doubt her story.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When three graves are found with only two skeletons at an old mansion in Savannah, Georgia, crime writer Nikki Gillette can't stay away from the story despite the warnings from her husband, Detective Pierce Reid, as this cold case leads to a new nightmare"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone...
9) Plain Jayne
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After losing out on an important career opportunity, reporter Jane Tate escapes to Oregon's Amish country seeking solace and maybe a story, but Jayne finds life more complicated than she expected.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tilda Harper, savvy celebrity reporter and sleuth to yesterday's stars, must find a killer with a penchant for former pinups in Agatha award-winner Toni L.P Kelner's second Where Are They Now? mystery A Killer Figure The last thing entertainment reporter Tilda Harper expects is for one of her feature articles to suddenly become an obituary. But when the subject of an upcoming piece-former 50s pinup queen, Sandra Sechrest-is brutally killed, Tilda's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Three stories from the world's best-selling author include the tale of a pair of divorcees who begin a strangely intense game of make-believe and a popular advertising exec who notices the people around him are being murdered. The wealthiest zip code in Florida doesn't just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes, it also has the best murder plots money can buy.
The Palm Beach murders: Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin...
Author
Series
Lucy Stone volume 19
Language
English
Description
Chocolate covered murder: Despite the frigid winter temperatures, to boost the economy, Tinker's Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day. Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer Chocolate--and its deliciously handsome owner. But there's another tantalizing tart behind the counter--sultry store manager Tamzin Graves. Leaving a throng of jealous women in her wake, it's almost no surprise when Tamzin turns up dead, her body...
14) Vanished
Author
Series
Private justice volume 1
Language
English
Description
Reporter Moira Harrison is lost. In the dark. In a thunderstorm. When a lone figure suddenly appears in the beam of her headlights, Moira slams on her brakes - but it's too late. She feels the solid thump against the side of her car before crashing into a tree on the far side of the road. A man opens her door, tells her he saw everything, and promises to call 911. Then the world fades to black. When she comes to, she is alone. No man. No...
15) Acceptable risk
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"Barely back home after being held hostage overseas, journalist Sarah Denning digs for the truth behind her brother's death with the help of former Army Ranger Gavin Black. As her enemies seek to silence her, Sarah and Gavin race to peel back layers of lies so the truth can finally be revealed"--
Author
Series
A Lucy Stone mystery volume 28
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Known for its cheerful staff and elaborate annual Easter Bonnet Contest, the Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press. But once the town's retired librarian, Miss Julia Tilley, checks in to recover from an illness, Lucy sees a side of the facility that isn't quite so perfect and pristine. And the place may soon be making headlines for different reasons following an unexplained disappearance... Lucy can't fathom...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.
Author
Series
Zion diaries volume 2
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As German Stukas circle in British skies, bombing London in repeated air raids, famous violinists Elisa Lindheim Murphy and her journalist husband, John, make an agaonizing deicsion to send their three children to safety in America. But what about all the Jewish refugees left behind in England?
Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 32
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to Old Philadelphia by the magic tree house to meet the Founding Father, journalist, and famous inventor Benjamin Franklin.