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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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English
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Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's supervision, while his movie star looks and attempts at...
3) Blindness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
4) Malorie
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Series
Bird Box novels volume 2
Language
English
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"In the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film that starred Sandra Bullock and "absolutely riveted" Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life. The film adaptation of Malerman's first novel, Bird Box, was watched by over forty-five million Netflix accounts in the first week, the best first seven days ever for a film on the platform. Countless more came to...
5) Undaunted
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Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The relationship between handsome millionaire Garrett Carlton and innocent Kate Martin is challenged by his reclusive nature and his discovery of her role in an accident that left him blind.
Author
Series
Jack Parlabane novels volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Santa Cruz restaurateur Sally Solari's life is already boiling over as she deals with irate cooks and other staffing issues at the busy Gauguin restaurant. The rainy December weather isn't cooling things down, either. So she's steamed when her dad persuades her to take in Evelyn, her estranged blind cousin whose mother has just died of a drug overdose. But Evelyn proves to be lots of fun and she's a terrific cook. Back at the house she'd shared...
13) Blind fear
Author
Series
Cold case thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When his former partner is kidnapped, retired Atlanta police detective Hank Gooch returns to work to help save Sgt. MeChelle Deakes, while the abducted Deakes tries to meet her kidnapper's atypical demands.
Author
Series
Medieval series (Christina Dodd) volume 1
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Lady Saura of Roget lived a lonely life of servitude - her fortune controlled by her unscrupulous stepfather - until she was summoned to ghe castle of Sir William of Miraval. The magnificent knight had once sworn to live or perish by the sword. But htat was before his world was engulfed in agonizing darkness.
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Language
English
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"The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is...
16) Air apparent
Author
Series
Xanth volume 31
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The mysterious disappearance of the Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo sends a diverse group of characters off on a dangerous and madcap pair of parallel quests.
17) The eyes of love
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Blinded in India by a Fakir's malediction, the Earl of Dornoch reluctantly travels to Scotland to assume his duties as Chieftain of his clan, where the lovely Vara McDorn becomes his guide among strangers, while a rival plots against him.
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Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, blind magistrate Sir John Fielding's investigation leads his protégé, Jeremy Proctor, into the notorious Seven Dials section of London. There the sordid inclinations of both the working class and aristocracy may be found--and there, Jeremy learns that the girl's mother has disappeared near the racetrack. As he delves further into the mystery, he will begin to realize just how high the stakes...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When her Mondo-Mega-Jackpot-winning boyfriend and business partner is targeted by a revenge killer, Allie Harper realizes that for the first time in her life, she has a lot to lose. Luckily, she knows how to fight for it"--
Author
Series
Sir John Fielding mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The crime appeared as easily solved as it was wicked. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe. Surely the culprit had been found, and justice would be swift and severe. But to Sir John Fielding, justice was more than finding a culprit-it was finding the truth. Aided by thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, Fielding decided to...
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