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"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 17
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Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London's glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that...
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Oregon files volume 12
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Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take...
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IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
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The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...
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13th reality volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.
9) Prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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I survived volume 13
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
11) The last hostage
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"High above the Rocky Mountains, a routine airline flight becomes a midair standoff as 130 passengers listen to their captain relate the unprecedented demands of an unseen hijacker. Federal and state officials must hunt down, arrest, and indict the murderer of a young girl, and do it all in eight hours - or the airplane will be blown out of the sky."--BOOK JACKET. "With the airline in confusion, the media pursuing, and the hijacker forcing the aircraft...
13) David Balfour
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The story follows the adventures of the protagonist, David Balfour, a young man who sets out to claim his inheritance from his recently deceased father. David travels to the Scottish town of Cramond to meet his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, who is the executor of his father's estate. However, David quickly discovers that his uncle is a greedy and treacherous man who has arranged to have David kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American colonies. Stevenson's...
14) Iron Gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 30
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"Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34
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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
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Carmer and Grit volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Felix Carmer III, a magician's apprentice, knows that his master's magic is all smoke, mirrors, pulleys, and sleight of hand--but when he meets Grit, a flightless faerie princess, he discovers magic is very real. They strike a deal--Carmer will help Grit investigate some disturbing fairy disappearances, while Grit will use her real magic to help Carmer's mechanical illusions win a huge prize in the biggest magic competition in the land.
19) Chupacabra
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Grace Wolfe, hoping to learn more about her mother, has gone to live with her grandfather, the famed zoologist Noah Blackwood. However, in his laboratory, which he calls the Seattle Ark, Grace discovers her grandfather is conducting experiments on animals to make cryptids--animals from legend. Feeling herself a captive, Grace's exploration of the Ark leads her to what may be a chupacabra.
20) Ghost force
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America, Britain, and Russia are drawn itno a battle for a gigantic oil strike on the desolate Falkland Islands. Russia is poised to help Argentina oust the British from the Falkland Islands, and Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to counter them. The United States sends Navy SEALs in a secret attack to destroy a lethal Russian submarine lying in wait to stop them.