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The Janitor's Boy

by Andrew Clements

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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IT WAS THE PERFECT CRIMEUnfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian. The pr...

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* * * Addictive

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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

by Michael Schofield

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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At age six, January ("Jani") Schofield was diagnosed with one of the most severe cases of child-onset schizophrenia on record. Hallucinating constantly, she is at the mercy of her imaginary friends—some of whom are friendly, while others tell her to scream at strangers, jump out of buil...

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January Kills Me (Samantha Rialto Mysteries)

by Evan Katy

Published: 2011-05-01

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Samantha Rialto, a recently divorced, defensively snarky middle school music teacher, has taken up surveillance photography as a way to fill the gaps in her educator's salary. As the daughter of the former Chief of Police it seemed like a reasonable choice for a side job. That is until a p...

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The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway)

by Elly Griffiths

Published: 2011-01-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway?minus its skull?Rut...

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* * * * Dark,
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Jar City: A Reykjavík Thriller

by Arnaldur Indridason

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 289 pages

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From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjav�k thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur�When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjav�k flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur ...

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

by Anthony Swofford

Published: 2005-10-18

Paperback: 260 pages

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* * * * Informative,
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Jarrettsville: A Novel

by Cornelia Nixon

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 340 pages

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Based on a true story from the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869, just after Martha Jane Cairnes has shot and killed her fiancé, Nicholas McComas, in front of his Union cavalry militia as they were celebrating the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomatto...

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Jasmine

by Bharati Mukherjee

Published: 1999-04-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, ...

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The Jasmine Moon Murder (Tea Shop Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2005-08-02

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck.

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Jasmine Nights

by Julia Gregson

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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From the bestselling author of EAST OF THE SUN comes an extraordinary love story. It is 1942 and the war is tearing Europe apart, shattering lives and devastating countries. But for some, it will be the greatest of adventures. Saba, a striking, headstrong singer from Wales defies her family to...