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The move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, wasn't easy for the Russo family-difficult enough for Big Al and Connie, but even harder for their daughter Maria Graziella, who insists on being called Grace. At thirty-one and still, shockingly, unmarried, Grace has scandalized her staunchly traditional Italian family by moving in with her boyfriend Michael-who, though a truly great guy, is agnostic, commitment-phobic, a scientist, and (horror...
2) Concussion
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English
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"In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations...
3) Memory man
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English
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Amos Decker's life changed forever-- twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect -- he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
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Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment-fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change football or leave the field. Football's defenders managed to move the chains. Rule changes and reforms after 1905 saved the game and cleared the way for...
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Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Are his playboy days over for good? In the wake of political defeat, former mayoral candidate Ainsley St. James does something totally out of character--she has a one-night stand with a seductive stranger. Never expecting to see him again, she accepts a job covering a breaking story in Hilton Head, South Carolina--only to discover that the island's most desirable recluse is the lover she has yet to forget. Winston Coltrane can't get that incredible...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Bleached-blond call girls rarely bring good news, especially the one who bursts through the door of Bay Tanner's struggling inquiry agency and into her already complicated life. Karen Zwilling swears she's been viciously attacked but can't-or won't-go to the police.
With the tragedy of her husband's murder finally resolved, Bay has been yearning for a little tranquillity, but that hope is shattered, both by Karen's plea for help and by the unexpected...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In the South, family is the one thing worth dying-or killing-for...
Things are heating up between young widow Bay Tanner, sometime private investigator, and Red, local sheriff's sergeant and her late husband's brother. But, a new case that strikes too close to home endangers more than just her love life.
An unexpected call from her housekeeper's son hints that a recent hit-and-run may have been more than an accident. Roberto fears the victim, a...
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Bay Tanner mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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English
Description
Towering live oaks guard old secrets and powerful forces that even the spirited Bay Tanner can't control...
A freak summer storm has Bay Tanner, sometime private investigator, cooped up with her ailing father at his antebellum mansion near Hilton Head. Desperate for a distraction, Bay recovers a cooler bobbing along on the incoming tide. What she discovers inside will plunge her into a world of ancient magic where the power of the "root" has held...
10) Covenant Hall
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Series
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Private Investigator Bay Tanner is hired by a young mother desperate to locate her estranged family. Joline Eastman's daughter is dying of leukemia, and all other sources for a bone-marrow transplant have been exhausted. A yellowing photograph and a handful of wartime letters are the only clues she has to offer. But, it's what she's not willing to share that may hold the ultimate solution to saving her daughter's life.
Meanwhile, Bay has her own...
11) Jericho Cay
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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While restoring her Hilton Head home after a brush with a hurricane, PI Bay Tanner reluctantly accepts bestselling true-crime writer Winston Wolfe as a client. Arrogant and secretive, Wolfe is researching the cold-case disappearance of reclusive millionaire Morgan Tyler Bell from his secluded private island off the South Carolina coast. Adding to the mystery, Bell's personal assistant vanished as well. But what has Bay's investigative antennae quivering...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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This astonishing novel was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly and Newsweek. Contained within is the story of Edgar Mint, the half-Apache, mostly orphaned child who overcomes a serious childhood injury to embark on a life of tragedies, including a boarding school for Native Americans and a dysfunctional Mormon foster family.
13) The Human head
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Describes the anatomy of the human head, including organs, muscles, and the skull"--Provided by publisher.
14) Perdition house
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St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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When a fifth cousin twice removed calls Bay Tanner - a young, recently widowed, financial consultant - from the Beaufort County Jail, it's no accident. Mercer Mary Prescott spent a lot of time and trouble locating Bay on the family tree, and she needs more than bail out of the relationship. What she's really after is a secret she's not willing to reveal-yet. But when Bay generously takes Mercer back to the family mansion of Presqu'isle, she finds...
17) Accidental love
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Millennium Media Services Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When a young waitress gets a nail lodged in her head as a result of a freak accident, she meets and falls in love with a senator while searching for a cure.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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In the South, the past can never be forgotten... or forgiven.
When Alain Darnay suddenly reappears on Hilton Head, Bay Tanner believes she and her former lover can finally settle into something resembling a normal life. But her tenuous peace is shattered by an innocent-looking boy with cold blue eyes who will force her to relive the nightmare of her husband's murder, to face that terrifying summer of treachery, deceit, and death.
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19) Canaan's gate
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Greed and deception drive the action in this tenth entry in the award-winning series, set in South Carolina's sultry Lowcountry.
When bank employee Cecelia Dobbs approaches Bay Tanner's inquiry agency, Bay has no idea her association with the awkward young woman will lead to murder. Concerned that one of her colleagues may be running a scam on the elderly and very wealthy Castlemains of Hilton Head Island, Cecelia is seeking proof she can take to...