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A hilarious look at marriage, divorce and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakeshop, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's...complicated!
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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PI Kate Blanchard, a former policewoman, is hired by a California heiress to investigate the death of her boyfriend, said to have committed suicide while in jail on a drugs charge. Blanchard's investigation leads her to a conspiracy involving oil companies, the Mexican mafia and Las Vegas casinos, one which will ruin the countryside. At that, people try to kill her. By the author of Against the Wind.
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2018
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"When lifelong best friends Shawn Spencer and Burton 'Gus' Guster stumbled into crime solving, they had no clue that their detective agency, Psych, would cause such a scene. With Shawn's fake psychic sleuthing and sidekick Gus' nose for clues, the unlikely duo tackles countless murders and mysteries, from the weirdly wacky to the daringly dangerous"--Container.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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This book opens in 2004, when four Latino teenagers arrive at a national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Oscar, Lorenzo, Cristian, and Luis were all born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they grew up in constant fear of deportation. Their high school - hundreds of miles form the nearest ocean, with no pool, little money to spare, and more than 80 percent of its students below the poverty...
9) 59 hours
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Recounts the true case of an innocent teen who becomes a hostage stuck in the middle of a dangerous drug-fueled feud.
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Pub. Date
2010
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On August 6, 2000, Nicholas Markowitz left his house and never came back. One week later, Susan Markowitz learned her son was dead. Susan had thought only about getting justice for her son. Along the way she rediscovered her own will to live. She promised to honor her son's memory by making sure something positive came from the pain he had to endure. This is the story of a mother's relentless nine-year fight to bring her son's killer to justice.
13) Anthony van Dyck
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Pub. Date
1994
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"Alfred Moir, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Caravaggio, also in the Masters of Art Series, has written a compelling study of the seventeenth-century Flemish painter and his oeuvre. It is illustrated with 81 black-and-white reproductions of works by Van Dyck and influential works by other painters, notably Rubens and Titian. Forty full-page color-plates are each accompanied by a commentary about the...