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Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater...
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Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In the first book of this brilliant series, now expanded and revised by the author, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues the man in black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Sixteen year old John Cole wants to grow up on his grandfather's ranch and live his life freely. When his grandfather dies, John suffers. He takes off for Mexico, but instead of escape and renewal, he finds a blood price to be paid.
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Jason Bourne series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsled by Carlos, the worlds most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him.
6) The stranger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
7) Split second
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The world can change forever in a single...SPLIT SECOND. Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment, and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for...
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Young elites volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Adelina Amouteru's heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her. But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to...
9) Politika
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Series
Tom Clancy's Power Plays volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis. D'Artagnan's fearless spirit impresses them.
11) Simple genius
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are back, and struggling in the emotional aftermath of the events that brought them to the brink in Hour Game. Dogged by personal demons, Maxwell agrees to treatment in a psychiatric institution after barely surviving a violent barroom brawl. And King, to right their partnership, accepts an offer to investigate a murder in a scientific think tank named Babbage Town. Feeling cured, Michelle joins him on the case, and...
12) The Young Elites
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Series
Young elites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Adelina Amouteru survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural powers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities"--
13) Babylon rising
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Series
Babylon rising volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While Michael Murphy, a scholar of Biblical prophecy, works to authenticate Biblical artifacts, he encounters powerful forces of evil which speed all of humanity towards its end.
14) Sherwood
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Fans of Danielle Paige, Marissa Meyer, and Alex Flinn will devour New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooners next fierce fairy tale-inspired story, which Illuminae author Amie Kaufman calls “a kick-ass, gender-flipped feminist retelling.” Robin of Locksley is dead. Maid Marian doesnt know how shell go on, but the people of Locksley town, persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham, need a protector. And the dreadful Guy of Gisborne, the Sheriffs...
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Series
Book of dust volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old college undergraduate Lyra is once again thrown together with Malcom Polstead, now a professor, after Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, receive secrets from a dying man about a daemon-haunted city and the origins of Dust.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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"The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Return Of The King includes the complete appendices and index for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. As the shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the...
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin--and the consequences are much greater than anyone realizes. For in these actions lie the seeds of disaster: the fall of two governments and the derailing of the Irish peace process. Now, former terrorist Sean Dillon and White House insider Blake Johnson must stop the assassin before all hell breaks loose.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Stevie and Kat, two high school seniors heavily involved in theater, leave Connecticut for a night of fun in New York City, but soon they find themselves without their phones or each other.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
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