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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
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The first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is...
4) Commitments
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English
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A budding romance between Sabrina and investigative reporter Derek McGill faces challenges when Derek is framed for murder and imprisoned, but Sabrina's deepening love prompts her to win his trust and temper the fury his ordeal has instilled in him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
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For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. He has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die, and Dillon may be one of them.
12) Love Only Once
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The exquisite niece of Lord Edward and Lady Charlotte Malory, Regina Ashton is outraged over her abduction by the arrogant, devilishly handsome Nicholas Eden-and is determined to make the rogue pay . . . with his heart.
A golden-haired seducer, Nicholas has been hardened by a painful secret in his past. And now that he has besmirched Reggie's good name, the hot-tempered lady has vowed to wed him. Her fiery beauty stirs Nicholas as no woman ever has-and...
13) Sizzle and burn
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English
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Lonely and reluctant psychic Raine Tallentyre is targeted for recruitment into the secret Arcane Society by fellow psychic Zack Jones, an effort that is complicated by Raine's painful memories of how the organization shattered her family through an act of betrayal.
14) Killer view
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Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming suspects that a dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, and an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may be linked to a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.
15) Laguna heat
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Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas--where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence.
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (7 hr., 54 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Adam Canfield and his star reporters are chasing some red-hot leads. There's only one glitch: the school board has shut down The Slash for exposing the town's most powerful family, and now the staff has to find a way to publish it themselves.
17) Black Hills
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English
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Childhood sweethearts Cooper Sullivan and Lil Chance are reunited when Coop leaves New York to assist his aging grandparents on their South Dakota ranch, but Coop must come to Lil's aid when the unsolved killing of a hiker is linked to vandalism at Lil's wildlife refuge.
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2009
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8 compact discs (ca. 9 hr. 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
20) Kindred in death
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English
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When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena?s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our...