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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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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Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
27 sound discs (ca. 31 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
Eye of the needle: One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer...
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Language
English
Description
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...
10) Vanishing act
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Series
Language
English
Description
The news that Harry Wong, a supporter of the Sisterhood, has had his identity stolen sets the sisters on the trail of the perpetrator to exercise their own particular brand of vigilante justice.
12) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving intelligence from the Campus that the world's most threatening terrorist has been tracked to a specific location, Jack Ryan, Jr., the organization's latest recruits, and his cousins embark on a dangerous mission to capture him.
13) DĂ©jĂ vu
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Language
English
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Description
The women of the Sisterhood find life after retirement to be too calm and peaceful, and when they reunite for a celebration in Las Vegas, they're called upon by the president to track down the wanted criminal Hank Jellicoe.
14) Winter garden
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Language
English
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Description
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
15) The bronzed hawk
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Language
English
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Description
"Kate McKenna is a photojournalist with a renegade reputation--and a fearless streak that lands her in an experimental hot air balloon, flying over the Rio Grande with the infamous Nick O'Brien. She wants to capture the real man behind the brilliant inventor, but to do that she needs to survive a crash landing in a lawless land and the ruthless bandits who take them hostage. As they conspire to escape their captors, Nick's fierce protective instinct...
16) In Close
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hr., 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claire O'Toole's mother, Alana, went missing fifteen years ago. That was big news in Pineview, Montana, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens. Then, last year, Claire's husband, David, died in a freak accident-after launching his own investigation into Alana's disappearance.
Is Alana dead? Or did she simply abandon her husband and daughters? Claire is determined to find out-and her former boyfriend, Isaac Morgan, wants to help. Although...
17) In Seconds
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the gang members who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found peace and stability in the small town of Pineview, Montana. But just when Laurel thinks she and her children are safe the nightmare starts all over again.
The Crew, a ruthless prison gang with ties to Laurel's brother, will never forget and they'll...
18) Live wire
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
19) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
20) Backfire
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.