Richard Ferrone
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Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Pilot Rayford Steele begins to suspect that something is horribly wrong when most of the passengers on his plane disappear without a trace. After landing he finds that millions of people around the world have also vanished, leaving behind disorderliness and confusion. Soon he and reporter Buck Williams, a passenger on Rayford's flight, seek out the truth behind the mass disappearances, which leads to some very sinister forces.
Author
Series
Mark of the lion volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Through the courageous faith of the Christian slave girl Hadassah and the troubled lives of the Roman masters, An Echo in the Darkness continues this moving tale of first-century Rome. Having narrowly escaped death, Hadassah conceals her scars--and identity--with veils. But it is her God-given ability to heal others that brings her to perhaps her greatest trial. God's forgiveness and redemption triumph as this young woman, assumed to be dead, is called...
3) Secret prey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves
4) The spy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, international tensions mount as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder not suicide. When more suspicious deaths occur, Bell realizes that a spy is killing...
5) Winter prey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Called in to assist the sheriff from a remote, rural area of Wisconsin in his investigation into a brutal triple homicide, Lucas Davenport begins to uncover a shocking series of vicious crimes that stun even Davenport with their evil intent.
6) Arctic drift
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming ... a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia ... a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war ... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find...
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement to restore...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"The essence of Mr. Wilder's book is really the feeling in it; it is a 'notation of the heart' with sympathy. Gaily or sadly, but always with understanding, a belief in the miracle of love runs through it all." —Times Literary Supplement (London)
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them...
10) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A struggling Montauk lawyer agrees to defend a local man accused of murdering several flashy Hamptons types and finds himself in the midst of another trial of the century"--Library journal.
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Series
Mark of the lion volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness...but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all.