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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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The latest installment of the Stephanie Plum series comes complete with non-stop action, mayhem, hot sexual tension, plenty of junk food, exploding cars, pot roast with the Plum family, and a viewing at the Burg's premier funeral home.
2) The Chase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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April 1950: A rusting steam locomotive rises from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years before. 1906: For two years, the West has suffered a string of bank robberies by a man who then murders any witnesses and vanishes. Fed up with the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in Isaac Bell. From Arizona to Colorado to San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what quickly becomes...
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Oregon files volume 11
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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first...
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2020.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and writer of astonishing depth (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a...
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Sadie Walela mysteries volume 1
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[2003]
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Sadie Walela's life is about to be turned upside down.One morning Sadie unlocks the door at the Mercury Savings Bank and confronts a robber who's been lying in wait for her and her fellow employees. He flees after stealing money and killing her coworker. When a whirlwind of events leaves Sadie herself under suspicion, she sets out to clear her name.This banker turned sleuth is suddenly plunged into an unfamiliar world in which people are not always...
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2009
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Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby Comstock Lode. So when the bank is robbed and two civilians cut down, a posse delivers its own justice, leaving only Judah Walsh alive. Walsh offers to tell where the gang hid the money in return for a horse, a hundred bucks, and a free ride out of the state. But the people of Rawhide Flat would rather torture the information out of him. Lucky for...
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2014
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It happens in a sudden flash of terror. A band of kill-crazy outlaws smash the bank in Caliche Bend, New Mexico. And by the fine white powder that covers everything, everyone knows the Snowman has struck again. The notorious bank robber uses bags of flour to stabilize the nitroglycerin used in his dynamite blasts. But this time the Snowman has made a blood enemy. Harlan Two-Trees loved the murdered sheriff like a father, and Harlan knows this: somehow...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
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2018.
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"Expert investigator Mel Davitt is brought in when the new State Bank of Milton is robbed. Just outside of town, Davitt joins up with Buck Granger, a young cowpuncher who helps him catch the bank robber known as the Crow. This is the beginning of a partnership that will apprehend rustlers and thieves"--
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Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself. With a green...
11) The badmen
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2014.
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Hal Peterson thought he had come up with the perfect scheme when he found out his sister, Annie, was married to a banker in Deadwood. He and his two thugs would force Ben Matters to let them into the bank at night. The only hitch was they would have to kill the banker and force Annie to go with them until they were far enough away for her to be released. The plan was working. However, Hap had not counted on the tireless persistence of Able Guthrie,...
12) Roses are red
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Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Facing a particularly vicious killer in his latest investigation, Alex Cross finds his family targeted by the vengeful Mastermind, a situation complicated by tension in his relationship with his girlfriend and his daughter's unexplained seizures.
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2019.
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5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of the most shocking bank heists in U.S. history—a crime that’s almost too wild to be real (The New York Times Book Review).
Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born–again Christian—attempted...
Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born–again Christian—attempted...
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[2010]
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Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder is at the bank with her four-year-old son when three armed Amish men burst in and start shooting and more surprisingly cursing. Magdalena protects Little Jacob, and the robbers flee at the sound of police sirens. When Jacob wonders why the bandits had mustaches, unlike all the other Amish men he knows, Magdalena springs into action to catch the thieves. They may be armed, but they may not be Amish!
15) Jack goes West
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret
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Brannigan's land volume 3
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2023.
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"Former lawman Ty Brannigan tries to rope in some skittish cattle rustlers at his family ranch - and uncovers a nest of scheming bank robbers. Looks like he's going to need a bigger rope . . .Something fishy is going on with the beef at Circle P. After a quick-and-dirty shootout with a small band of rustlers, Ty Brannigan and his son Matt do another count of their cattle - and find they have fifty heads more than before. Seems the rustlers were hiding...
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2022.
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On the trail of the Arizona Cowboy Gang, Ranger Burrack rides with Indian Territory lawman Dan'l Thorn into Mexico, where the Cowboys have stolen several thousand dollars in gold. The lawmen are there to locate and arrest a pair of twin outlaws by the name of Smith, but they get sidetracked hunting for the stolen loot. Trouble is they aren't the only ones on the gold's trail. A competing gang has stolen the gold from the cowboys, a beautiful lady...
19) The Town
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[2010]
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Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang, decides he wants to leave town and the life of crime behind when he falls in love with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, but he finds the choices he has to make more difficult than he imagined.
20) Widow's tears
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China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
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After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her home and later died there, having been driven mad with grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel's caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it's haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby- who has the gift of extrasensory perception...
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