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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 1
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It's just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment, a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured onto the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find that this is a murder with tentacles which stretch far beyond the crime scene... to Nazi Germany, in fact, following...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Dani's been trying her best to stay happy ever since her best friend Ella moved away. But when some girls in Dani's class start being cruel to her, it starts a chain of rather unhappy events ... It would all be okay if only Ella would move back. The standalone sequel to the acclaimed illustrated chapter book, My Happy Life.
5) Dry bones
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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 3
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"Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind enemy lines to rescue a team of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A warm and heartfelt story about Dani's love for her dad and her friendship with Ella. It's a story about sorrow and joy--and how life really is. It's the second-to-last day of school and Dani's so happy she could write a book about it! In fact, that's exactly what she's done, although it's not quite finished yet. Now the book is in her backpack with all the other things she has to take home before the summer break. But then Dani gets some bad news....
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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 2
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Peter Quinn's The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the job of finding Judge Crater, who just went missing in 1930. Based on a real story, it is quite an intriguing tale that was even more so for people living at the time. The famous missing-person case is comparable to the Amelia Earhart missing-person case,...
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Charles Mathes has impressed readers with his inventive series of "Girl" stand-alones in which a different female heroine must uncover a dark secret about her family's past. In this fourth addition to the series, Mathes brings readers Jane Sailor, a young woman who choreographs stage combat for theatrical productions.
She is working at a regional repertory company when she gets an ominous phone call urging her to return to New York: something has...
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Descripción del libro:
La víspera del Solsticio de verano, los cuerpos de dos jóvenes gitanos son encontrados en un lugar solitario cerca de una playa en Málaga. Parece que la pareja cometió suicidio, un pacto de amantes para terminar con todo, y la policía se apresura a cerrar el caso. Pero Jacaranda Dunne, una investigadora privada que solía trabajar para la Policía Metropolitana, piensa de otro modo.
Cuando el primo de la chica...
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Jacaranda Dunne-known to everyone as JD-is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. At first, the work is routine, missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands. Then one day a woman bursts into the agency, waving the photo of a young girl; it's her missing daughter, Sophie.
Together with her best friend, Julie-both aged fourteen at the time-Sophie had disappeared the previous summer. An extensive...
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In 1961, a Hollywood movie company came to tiny Polvo, Texas, to film a movie about Pancho Villa. However, the film was dogged with trouble: a man was found murdered on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande and the case was never solved.
Now, forty years later, trading post owner Texana Jones is hosting a video crew making a special celebrating the film's anniversary. Most of the townspeople are excited by this event, but some want nothing to...
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Dura, resistente, manipuladora y valiente, Jacaranda Dunne es una antigua oficial de la Policía Metropolitana que se ha trasladado a España para abrir una agencia de detectives en Málaga. Al principio el trabajo de la agencia es mera rutina, perros perdidos, pasaportes robados, maridos infieles, etc. Un día, una mujer llega a la agencia y quiere que JD encuentre a su hija desaparecida y se encuentra investigando el mundo tenebroso del tráfico...
14) Corazón Oscuro
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"Corazón Oscuro" es el Segundo libro de los misterios de Jacaranda Dunne.
Cuando una famosa estrella de cine es asesinada durante el Festival de Cine de Málaga, la Guardia Civil una vez más recurre a JD y a su equipo en busca de ayuda. El crimen está todo lo más lejos de ser sencillo. El asesino ha dejado toda una serie de pistas para que la policía las siga, pero la cuestión es: ¿por qué? Y, ¿qué está intentando decirles? No pueden...
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Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend Joe Pearson and his new neighbor, Irene Miller, Danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged. Danny figures out what is wrong with the machine and corrects the problem. Danny's teacher also learns about the machine, and has her ideas for the Homework...
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Who says nobody does anything about the weather? Danny Dunn does! Of course if there hadn't been a drought when Danny went to the weather bureau to return a radiosonde, just maybe nothing would have happened. But has there ever been a time when Danny could contain his curiosity? Danny is naturally attracted to all the weather-forecasting instruments and decides to do some volunteer weather-observing. And when Danny and his friends Joe Pearson and...
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"I challenge you to a duel of desert islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bulfinch accuses him of not being practical. Grimes plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and the Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best!
Danny and his best friend Joe soon get permission to join them, and the four take off in the scientists' plane. But when they crash-land in the ocean and are really marooned on an island...
19) Mariposa Landing
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When sixty-ish Angel Dunn left Indiana for the exotic world of south Florida in Egret Cove, she was a lonely aging snowbird with dreams of tropical adventure but no real hope of new passions. Then she met an invigorating group of new friends, got caught up in some gently wild adventures, and fell in love with a worldly Italian name Gilberto. Next, now married, she and Gilberto moved to the wilds of Hummingbird Ridge, West Virginia, where they started...
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Danny and his friend Joe Pearson discover the entrance to a cave in the woods near their home. Professor Bulfinch has just invented a portable x-ray machine, and the Professor, along with his geologist friend Dr. Tresselt, sees an opportunity to use the device inside the cave. The two adults, along with Danny, Joe, and Irene, enter the cave on an expedition. They make an astonishing discovery, but they encounter a significant problem, which prevents...