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61) Recapitulation
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Bruce Mason, first seen as a youth embittered by the events of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, returns to Salt Lake City forty-five years later for the funeral of an aunt. As Bruce makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, there is an intensely private and painful inner pilgrimage populated by the ghosts of his past.
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2018.
Description
Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason, but with her husband's passing she's come home to reconnect with her family. Now she's serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. When the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death-- with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young-- Abbie uncovers the dark side of the picturesque neighborhood. She'll discover...
63) The Great Brain
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Great Brain books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead.
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The Red Rock Canyon mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Silas Pearson is looking for answers. It has been more than three years since his wife, Penelope de Silva, disappeared while working on a conservation project in Utah's red rock wilderness. Law enforcement authorities have given up hope of finding the adventurous Penelope alive. And some suggest that she may not have vanished into the desert at all but simply left Silas for another man. Silas moves to Moab, where his wife was last seen, with one purpose:...
67) Ghost Horses
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
71) The wheat doll
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On the nineteenth-century Utah frontier, Mary Ann is heartbroken when her doll Betty is lost during a fierce storm and her sadness lasts all winter long, until spring brings a wonderful surprise.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
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"The Star City Film Festival has taken the Utah ski resort town by storm. Movie stars are everywhere, including The Rescued Word, where Clare Henry and her grandfather restore old typewriters and beloved books. When cinema's hottest superhero, Matt Bane, enters their store to buy some personalized notecards, it's hard not to be starstruck, and when Clare sees the police leading Matt out of his hotel in handcuffs only a few hours later, she's convinced...
76) February's files
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2012.
Description
Grand County deputy sheriff Manny Rivera hunts the murderer of an investigative journalist who moved from New York to Moab for some peace and quiet but couldn't quell his investigative instincts.
77) Dead dry
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Assigned to assist the Salt Lake City police in the investigation of the murder of Afton McWain, a controversial colleague whose body turns up in a gravel quarry, forensic geologist Em Hansen confronts the results of the victim's turbulent personal life.
78) If only
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While adjusting to his family's move from California to Utah, and while the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric meets Grace--his classmate and a runaway--and decides to hide her in the clubhouse in his backyard. Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life?
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Adventures with the Parkers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twin brother and sister, James and Morgan, go on an adventurous camping and hiking vacation with their parents to Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks and learn about the history, unusual geology, famous sites, plants, and animals of these two closely situated but very different parks. Accompanying sidebar notes include additional facts about the area and describe the facilities and rules of the two parks.
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Noel collection volume 2
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"Maggie Walther, humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, has isolated herself from the world until Andrew, the kind, handsome man who owns the Christmas tree lot and delivers her tree, inspires her to trust again. Then she discovers a dark secret from Andrew's past"-Provided by publisher.
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