William Dufris
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Wyoming stories volume 1
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English
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A new collection of award-winning short fiction by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News includes "Brokeback Mountain," "The Mud Below," and "The Half Skinned Steer," selected by John Updike as one of the best stories of the century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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After being knocked unconscious during a fight, Hank Morgan awakes at Camelot in AD 528. As minister to King Arthur, Hank tries to help the peasantry only to be confronted with opposition from the Church, knights, and sorcerers.
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
Language
English
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When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
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English
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"Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: He prefers a long trail ride even when a train ticket can get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. So when it's Old Red who insists on guarding the Pacific Axpress, despite a generations-old family distrust of the farm stealin', cattle-killin', money-grubbing' railroads, Big Red is flummoxed. But as usual, he'll follow his ornery brother just about anywhere. Trapped on a thousand...
7) Oggie Cooder
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Oggie Cooder has a talent; he can charve better than anyone else in Truman Elementary School. (For the uninitiated, charving is the carving of a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) Oggie doesn't think this is anything special, but his whole school soon disagrees with him. After he inadvertently charves during a nationwide hunt for unusual talents, he becomes well-known, famous even! Suddenly, he's the star of the school, but Oggie isn't sure that he...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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On a two-day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington, D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
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Series
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
♭2013.
Language
English
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Created more than forty years ago by secret executive order, Red Cell Seven is a highly classified intelligence agency tasked with protecting America from the most catastrophic of terrorist attacks. But in the aftermath of a string of deadly terrorist attacks across the nation, Red Cell Seven finds itself drawn into a conspiracy that threatens to tear the organization apart.
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a new administration challenges the Russian agression head on, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron devise a plan to destroy Russia's new high-tech space station that has the ability to destroy satellites and attack strategic targets around the globe.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and the Unity government has a vital interest in making sure the flow of longevity drugs remains uninterrupted, even if it means uprooting the human settlements. Offered...
12) Storm surge
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Series
Destroyermen volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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The Alliance is on the offensive everywhere, but their enemies have a few surprises, including new weaponry and new tactics ... and a stunning geographic advantage that Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy never suspected.
13) Starfire
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 19
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space.
15) Deadly shores
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Series
Destroyermen volume 9
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
©́2014
Language
English
Description
Many Lemurians see an opportunity to reconquer their sacred homeland, which was stolen long ago, and have no intention of simply striking a blow and then pulling back. Others, Lemurian and human, have their own agendas, which may not be in the best interests of the Alliance. Complicating matters further is Reddy's suspicion that his task force is being stalked by an unknown power bent on aiding the Grik for reasons of its own.
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
A court of inquiry convenes at the Union Army headquarters to investigate the Battle of the Crater, one of the worst disasters endured by a disaster-prone army. The military news of that spring had been full of unrelenting frustration and outright catastrophe. Lincoln is losing the election, and with it, the war. Fearing the worst, the president calls on his old friend, reporter James O'Reilly, to cover the resulting court of inquiry and file a confidential...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1777, Washington and his demoralized army retreat from Philadelphia, arriving at Valley Forge where they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany who begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing...
18) Cryptonomicon
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Language
English
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An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. By the author of The Diamond Age.
More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren--Randy and Amy--join forces to create a "data...
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Robot series volume 1
Language
English
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Following the iconic I, Robot, the next adventure in the Robot series finds detective Elijah Baley swept into one of the most emotionally charged and dangerous situations in Earth’s history when he’s tasked with solving the murder of an illustrious robot scientist.
“With his fertile imagination, his wit, and his prolific output, Isaac Asimov truly laid the foundation for all future generations of science fiction...
“With his fertile imagination, his wit, and his prolific output, Isaac Asimov truly laid the foundation for all future generations of science fiction...
20) The Naked Sun
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Series
Robot series volume 2
Language
English
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The bestselling Robot series continues in this sequel to The Caves of Steel, with detective Elijah Baley taking on the dangerous role of double agent when he’s sent to Solaria to solve a brutal murder—and uncover a weakness in Earth’s most powerful neighbor.
On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot...
On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot...