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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
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Presidential Agent volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
528 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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When a leased Boeing 727 vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the truth.
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Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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After getting stuck in a big pile of glue during art class, Matty endures the creative yet unsuccessful attempts of his classmates to break him free.
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
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English
Description
Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
10) Heaven and Hell
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Series
The North and South trilogy volume III
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
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The searing conclusion to the North and South Trilogy brings the battle between the Mains and Hazards-and Confederate and Union armies-to a brilliantly satisfying end The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and Hazard families. As the Mains' South smolders in the ruins of defeat, the Hazards' North pushes blindly for relentless industrial progress. Both the nation and the families' long-standing bond hover on the brink of destruction....
12) Homeland
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[c1993]
Physical Desc
785p
Language
English
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The lives and fortunes of the Crown family--Paul; his German-born uncle, Joseph; Joseph's wife, Ilsa; their rebellious son, Joe--are set against the turbulent backdrop of a momentous decade in world history, from 1890 to 1900
13) Morrigan's cross
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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As the powerful vampire Lilith prepares to quench her thirst for destruction by unleashing her fury in battle, a medieval sorcerer, one of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan, must travel through time to stop her.
15) North and South
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English
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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...
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Mr. Goat learns that it's Valentine's Day, he sets out in search of gifts for his first love, but his choices are a little unconventional"--
18) Broken flower
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English
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On the verge of puberty, eleven-year-old Jordan March is sent to live with her spinster great-aunt, after her grandmother accuses her of having an incestuous relationship with her teenaged brother Ian, and stumbles upon a long-buried secret about her family's enigmatic past.